Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American. Show all posts

Saturday, August 20, 2011

The Help


Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son.

Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer) is an African-American maid whose outspokenness has gotten her fired many times and built up a reputation for being a difficult employee, but she makes up for this with her baking skills.

Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating from the University of Mississippi [4] to find that her beloved childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared.

Amidst the era of discrimination based on color, Skeeter is one of the few who believe otherwise, and she decides to write a book, "The Help," based on the lives of the maids who have spent their entire life taking care of white children and have been ill treated.

These three stories intertwine to explain how life in early-1960s' Jackson, Mississippi, revolves around "the help"; yet despite the intimate quarters in which whites and blacks live, there is always a certain distance between them because of racial lines.
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Tony! Toni! Toné! -The Revival


Track listing



  1. "Feels Good"- 4:58 (Featuring Mopreme Shakur)

  2. "All the Way"- 4:27

  3. "Oakland Stroke"- 4:40 (Featuring Vanessa L. Williams)

  4. "The Blues"- 4:13

  5. "Let's Have a Good Time"- 4:02

  6. "It Never Rains (In Southern California)"- 5:04

  7. "Whatever You Want"- 4:51

  8. "I Care"- 5:56

  9. "Sky's the Limit"- 4:38

  10. "All My Love"- 6:01

  11. "Don't Talk About Me"- 4:16

  12. "Skin Tight"- 4:02

  13. "Jo-Jo"- 4:14

  14. "Those Were the Days"- 4:56


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Thursday, October 7, 2010

Posse


A group of black American soldiers desert their ranks during the 1890s Spanish-American war, on account of a cruel and corrupt white colonel. Along with an ostracized white soldier they form a posse of outlaws and--with the colonel in pursuit--head to an all black town caught up in its own struggle against hostile neighboring whites.
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Big Momma's House


FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time, Malcolm starts falling for Sherry
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