Have you ever come across someone in your life who is just so full of bitterness that all they say or touch is miserable? And you wonder, what made someone like this? The Pawnbroker, (1964) tells a story of just such a person. Sol Nazerman played by a much talented, but most underrated, Rod Steiger, used to be a successful professor in Europe during WW II. Nazerman is a Jew in a world that didn’t want them. He has a beautiful wife,...

I’ve always been curious of the 1951 Classic TV show Amos N Andy. I know it was a great show and many loved it, many which were and are African American. So what happened to Amos n Andy and what was all the raucous about? Let’s step back in time here. Amos n Andy were first on the radio from 1928-1950 and the ratings were high for the funny show of two black guys who lived in a farm in the south, who one day decide to head out...

One Potato, Two Potato, (1964) a rarely seen, or talked about movie, but an absolute gem! I bet if I asked any classic movie fan to tell me what classic movie dealt with interracial marriages, they’d answer, Guess who is coming to Dinner. Although Dinner… is a great movie and quite memorable, it doesn’t top One Potato, Two Potato. Unfortunately this movie is not as popular and many have never even seen it.I had the...

Together Brothers (1974) an obscure, but good movie, with young inexperienced actors is worth your while to watch. The movie directed by William Graham, with an awesome musical score by Barry White and The Love Unlimited Orchestra is a touching and all too real story of the black experience in America. When a much loved police officer called Mr. Kool by the neighborhood people is horribly murdered, a 15-year-old gang leader, HJ (Ahmed...

A clutter bug saves the day! Mayme Clayton an African-American woman has collected, throughout many years what will come to be known as the greatest collection of African American history. She has amassed dozens of pre-civil war manuscripts, and writings, photographs, journals, cartoons, correspondence, playbills, and magazines. What I found most interesting was her collection of film archives, which she stored in a climate-controlled...