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My 2013 independent documentary, BACK IN THE WINGS: FREDDIE DUNN'S LEXINGTON, streams via PBS affiliate Kentucky Educational Television:
https://t.co/lAMUjU0BQE
#NKAA
Now streaming: Lexington, Ky., native Freddie Dunn recounts his youth and young adulthood. Archival photos complement Mr. Dunn's detailed perspective of the African American experience in Kentucky during the 1940s and 1950s. https://t.co/U00L9iuY6Y
Children can’t vote, but their hunger is real. Yet, once again, Gov. Brian Kemp has refused to help — vetoing funding for summer nutritional assistance. Georgia families are struggling to afford groceries, rent and health care, and this would be a lifeline. During this election season remember that your elected officials should serve you and the needs of your community. If you're in need of assistance, visit: https://t.co/7Na8k7bgNp
Allen Iverson OTD in 2001:
🔥 48 PTS
🔥 6 AST
🔥 5 REB
🔥 5 STL
🔥 18/41 FG
🔥 3/8 3PT
Ended the Lakers’ 11-game playoff win streak with one of the most iconic performances ever. 🙌
3/3 Kahle argues that libraries help create an informed citizenry by preserving books, films, music, and historical records across generations.
“Our evolving digital age can be our next Carnegie moment or it can be a Library of Alexandria moment. It is up to us.”
Read Kahle's essay and much more in VANISHING CULTURE.
📖 Download & read: https://t.co/SQPdTHqZjo
🛒 Purchase in print: https://t.co/sqAY6ckFmv
@InternetArchive@Brewster_Kahle #VanishingCulture #InternetArchive #Libraries #DigitalPreservation
🧵1/3 What happens when libraries can no longer preserve the knowledge they collect? 📚⚠️
Brewster Kahle warns that the systems connecting libraries, readers, and cultural memory are becoming dangerously fragile as publishers replace ownership with temporary access.
Read the essay Preserving the Library System by Brewster Kahle, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.
🔗 https://t.co/tjoVGTQ2d6
MS. NORA WILLIAMS FROM MADDOXTOWN
Community Tuesday
documentary presentation
The Lyric Theatre
& Cultural Arts Center
Tuesday, May 26th
6:00 p.m.
https://t.co/Smrb9RM8H5
#Kentucky#KentuckyHistory
my next documentary details 1961 NBA pre-season incident at the Phoenix Hotel
Denied service at hotel coffee shop, Celtics and St. Louis Hawks players together boycotted the exhibition game. Their civil protest hastened desegregation of public accomodations in downtown Lexington
The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”
@TeaKaGee Frederick Douglass: An American Life, directed by William Greaves, was released in 1985. The 16mm film has been part of public programming at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Cedar Hill, in Washington, DC.
https://t.co/gE4On9Qdlb
Before closing in 1963, the theatre returned to its roots as a movie theatre, featuring horror films and black cowboy movies plus Saturday morning cartoons.
- text from 'The Lyric Theatre, A Brief History' information card
image: Lexington Herald, 4-18-1963
The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center
Lexington, Kentucky
A Brief History
Vibrant. Alive. The place to be and be seen. Between 1948 and 1963, the Lyric Theatre was a thriving entertainment centerpiece for Lexington's African-American families. 🧵
https://t.co/Smrb9RM8H5
Entertainment wasn't the only draw. Numerous small black-owned businesses were launched in and around the theatre.
Educator Sanford T. Roach, Dunbar High School teacher and coach, then principal of Carver Elementary, managed an ice cream parlor next door.
https://t.co/WbGIZ4xp8R
Lyric Theater
“Rock & Roll Revue”
On Stage - In Person
Featuring The Flairs, Butterbeans & Susie, Tawney, Gene Ammons and his Rock & Roll Band
image: Lexington Herald newspaper, 6-20-1956
Everyone has a favorite memory - the movies, fashion shows, vaudeville acts, local concerts, pageants - but during the '50s it was Jazz, Soul and R&B music that took center stage, with big-name acts like Ray Charles and Count Basie.
image: Lexington Herald newspaper, 10-23-1949