Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (2011)
A portrait of one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as A Tribe Called Quest.

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Mooz-Lum (2011)
Pulled between his strict Muslim upbringing and the normal social life he has never had, Tariq Mahdi enters college in the state of confusion. New relationships with Musilms and non-Muslims alike challenge his already shaken ideals, and the estrangement with his mother and sister troubles him.

WIth the help of new friends, family and mentors, he begins to find himself and open up to an Islam he was not previously exposed to. But when the attacks of 9/11 happen, he is forced to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.

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Night Catches Us (2010)
In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival raises suspicion among his family and former neighbors, he finds acceptance from his old friend Patricia and her daughter.

However, Marcus quickly finds himself at odds with the organization he once embraced, whose members suspect he orchestrated the slaying of their former comrade-in-arms. In a startling sequence of events, Marcus must protect a secret that could shatter everyone's beliefs as he rediscovers his forbidden passion for Patricia.

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For Colored Girls (2010)
"For Colored Girls" brings to the screen Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning play, a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.

In Theaters November 5th, 2010

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Thunder Soul (2010)
THUNDER SOUL tells the true story of Conrad O Johnson and the legendary Kashmere Stage Band

It was afros and pleated shirts; James Brown and Bootsy Collins. It was the ’70s, and an inner-city Houston high school was about to make history. Charismatic band leader, Conrad “Prof” Johnson would turn the school’s mediocre jazz band into a legendary funk powerhouse.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child (2010)
Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man. - Written by Sundance Film Festival.

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Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2010)
Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead--or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.

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Thunder Soul
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Black Artist:
Gil Scott Heron
The Revolution Lives On in America.

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Quiet Black Wealth:
Robert Reed Church, Sr.
America's most profound “rags to riches“ stories.

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Museum for African Art
The Museum for African Art will own and occupy about 100,000 square feet in NYC.

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