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A'Lelia Bundles is the great-granddaughter
of Madam C.J. Walker. Producers of Self Made include LeBron James and
Octavia Spencer. Shellie Gaines (inset) interviewed Bundles in our April 12,
2020 podcast.
Netflix Original Series Self Made Based on
Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Join The Gist Of Freedom Is Still Faith as
we congratulate A’Lelia Bundles for the Netflix series inspired by her book,
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker.
A’Lelia is Walker’s
great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles. In the series Self Made (Netflix
original series, 2020), Oscar-winning actress Spencer stars as Sarah
Breedlove, known as Madam C.J. Walker, the black hair care pioneer and mogul
who overcame challenges to become America’s first, female self-made
millionaire. Self Made also stars Blair Underwood as her husband C.J.
Walker, Tiffany Haddish as her daughter Lelia and Garrett Morris as Walker’s
father-in-law.
WATCH THE SERIES
The Clark Sisters Thrills with a Gospel
Revolution
The text below is excerpted from the NPR
story In New Film About Gospel Pioneers The Clark Sisters, The Music Comes
First, published on April 17, 2020 by Rachel Martin and Vince Pearson. For
rest of the story, see link below.
The Clark Sisters — Jackie, Dorinda, Denise,
Twinkie and Karen — were one of the most important gospel groups of the 20th
century. The sisters grew up in Detroit and learned to sing from their
mother, Mattie Moss Clark, a renowned gospel singer in her own right. With
her help, the Clark Sisters went on to win three Grammy awards and become
the top-selling female gospel group of all time. Simply put, they changed
the sound of modern gospel music.
The story of the ground-breaking group and
the matriarch who pushed them forward is the subject of a new Lifetime movie
called The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel. The film differs from most
musical biopics in one notable way: Director Christine Swanson insisted that
the women playing the sisters in the film be able to sing — really sing.
Acting experience was less of a requirement.
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The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel
(Lifetime, Sat, April 11th, 8 PM PT/ET). Watch the trailer here. Read the
NPR review here.
STREAM NOW
Smithsonian is Looking for Help Digitizing
Historic DC-Based Black Newspaper
The text below is excerpted from the
American University Radio article The Smithsonian Is Digitizing A Historic
D.C.-Based Black Newspaper, And It Needs Volunteers, published on February
20, 2020 by Elliott C. Williams. For rest of the story, see link below.
Led by the Smithsonian’s Transcription
Center—which launched in 2014—volunteers have helped transcribe more than
1,500 pages from collections at the National Museum of African American
History and Culture and the Anacostia Community Museum. The collection has
been recently digitized and added to the transcription project list. It
includes fragile newspapers, political pamphlets, and ads for black
entertainers from the 1930s.
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Read the complete American University Radio
article here.
Watching Faith Under Fire: The Antoinette
Tuff Story
The text below is from MyLifetime.com.
Seven time Grammy® Award winner Toni Braxton
stars as Antoinette Tuff, a struggling single mom from Georgia who
heroically averted a tragedy, saving hundreds of lives when she convinced a
deranged gunman who stormed an elementary school to surrender. On August 20,
2013, shortly after arriving to work at the Ronald E. McNair Discovery
Learning Academy in Decatur, Georgia, Antoinette the school’s bookkeeper,
was in the front office when Michael Hill (Trevor Morgan, “Abducted”), a
young man with a history of mental illness, snuck in, armed with an AK-47
and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. As the school went into lockdown,
Antoinette was left alone with Michael, who repeatedly threatened to kill
everyone. Showing enormous courage and empathy, along with nerves of steel,
Antoinette convinced Michael to surrender by using her own life struggles to
connect with him. Antoinette’s faith in God guided her through the toughest
moments of her life, ultimately preparing her for that fateful day.
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Faith Under Fire (Lifetime). Faith Under
Fire is available to stream on Amazon Prime here.
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North America’s 17th Century Black
Settlements
The text below is excerpted from the About
Us section of the Seneca Village Montessori School website
(senecavillagemontessori.com).
The story of Seneca Village begins in 1825,
when Andrew Williams and Epiphany Davis became the first African Americans
to purchase land in the area, which stretched from West 82nd to West 85th
streets between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Within a week of these initial
purchases, the Trustees of the AME Zion Church purchased eight lots of
nearby land. By 1829, nine relatively substantial houses had been built in
the area.
Several Seneca Village property owners,
including Albro Lyons, Levin Smith and S. Hardenburgh, were prominent in the
abolitionist movement.
The village was built in a desirable
location, with proximity to the Hudson River’s ample fishing opportunities
and to a natural source of clean water at a nearby spring. The village’s
residences ranged from one-room homes to three-story dwellings made of wood
and brick, and there are records of three churches and one school in the
village as well. The 1855 census indicated that Seneca Village was home to
approximately 250 residents and contained 70 houses. Life in Seneca Village
was rural and its distance from the bustling streets of Lower Manhattan
offered its residents a peaceful life.
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Read more about Seneca Village and the
importance of preserving its history here.
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Listen to Shellie Gaines’ interview with
A'Lelia Bundles SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 2020
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Listen to Emergency Doctor Ishmael Griffin
discuss the coronavirus epidemic
MARCH 23, 2020
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We celebrate Easter and honor viral
immunologist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
APRIL 6, 2020
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Listen to Mariam Guilliams’ interview with
Egyptian Coptic Christian
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
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Join host R. Lee Gordon in an Easter
Celebrity Bible Readings
APRIL 24, 2011
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Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza
speaks to Nikkole Amir
JANUARY 7, 2016
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Listen to Author Dr. Myers Lectures from her
book "The Invisible Queen"
MAY 31, 2018
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Professor Simon P. Newton discusses runaway
slave ads of Eighteenth-Century Britain
JUNE 11, 2018
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Join Arthur McFarlane II the great grandson
of W.E.B. Du Bois
AUGUST 25, 2017
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Join Historian Philip Merrill as he talks
about Rev. Peter Fossett
JUNE 7, 2015
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Listen to Martin Luther King's 40 Acres
Speech
OCTOBER 28, 2013
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