Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou
Cotton comes to Harlem, 1970...
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1893 -1927 Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot…
Tribute to Bessie Coleman.. someone who lived as she believed...
The Greatest Love of All
Does God's Power work in the Ghetto or did Jesus come just for the Suburbs?
Made in 1970, just as he was reaching the end of a three-year exile from boxing, A.K.A. Cassius Clay is a documentary about Muhammad Ali's life and career. Produced by Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton, who would go on to manage Mike Tyson, it includes reams of Jacobs's vast collection of fight footage, some of it familiar, some quite rare, such as flickering images of Ali's earliest bouts.
Ali's familiar story is competently related here: his 1960 Olympic triumph, his upset of Sonny Liston in 1964, his conversion to the Nation of Islam, and the plainly vindictive decision on the part of the authorities to revise his draft status and call him up for service in Vietnam.
The principal pleasure is watching Ali in full verbal flow, including his maniacal teasing of Liston that proved to be a psychological knockout blow: "The man's too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty, like me!"
A fascinating look at the life and incredible achievements of one of the most courageous, outspoken and charismatic figures of boxing: Muhammed Ali. AKA: Cassius Clay charts the voyage of a man who grabbed Olympic gold at the age of 18, captured the World Heavyweight title at 21, and ultimately came to power as one of the most forceful leaders of the American civil rights movement.
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Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.
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