Prophet minus the rPH...

cagedbrothasings: Shadow & Act has learned that what will...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:02:15 -0400

Shadow & Act has learned that what will be an unconventional biopic based on the life of playwright, author, activist Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the Sun), is in development, with long time collaborators Taye Hansberry (grand niece of Lorraine Hansberry and author of stuffshelikes.net), and Numa Perrier (The Couple) penning the script to a film that will star Taye in the title role, and will be directed by Perrier.

Issa Rae is set to play Nina Simone, who was a close friend of Lorraine until her death.

And Jaleel White will play James Baldwin, Hansberry’s close friend and confidant.

Will Stewart (Casting Director for Scandal) is casting the project, with additional announcements to come.

Production is slated to begin in early fall, with the project now heading into the pre-production stage.

Living quite an involved life, Hansberry was the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. She’s likely most-known for her seminal play about a struggling black family in Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun (a line taken from a Langston Hughes poem).

It was the first play produced on Broadway by an African American woman. It opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, and was a great success.

The film version of A Raisin in the Sun was completed in 1961, starring Sidney Poitier.

Throughout her life, she was heavily involved in civil rights, and died very young at just 34 of pancreatic cancer.

There’s obviously a lot more to know about Hansberry’s life - some of it, public information; some of it not; much of it unfolding on screen, in this upcoming project.

The film won’t be a traditional biopic, as already noted, which this writer is excited to hear; and given what I know of Perrier’s past artistic endeavors over the years (engaged in almost all forms of media), I’d expect something bold here.

Stay tuned…

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:01:56 -0400

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cdior30:

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aliyahpatricia:

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kemetically-afrolatino: Read the FREE version online Watch the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:32:26 -0400

kemetically-afrolatino:

Read the FREE version online

Watch the (rare) TV documentary “Day of the Gun” here or here

Watch the movie about Jackson Black August here

get inspired

Love.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:50:41 -0400

Love.

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:52:33 -0400

fuckyeahblackbeauties:

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Thanks to BlackSoulsCo for the shirt!

blackhairguru: #shoutout to @ohzeneshh!! #naturalhair...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:41:13 -0400

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:56:02 -0400

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christel-thoughts:

trillaryclinton:

andross:

allblackeverthing:

Screenshot of Season 4!!!

Regina King posted on ‘whosay’ June 11, 2013: “Can you guess what I was doing today???”

I’m here for this.

yes.

J🎶 Jesus loves me. Ooooohhhh yes he does. Jesus loooooves me. Ooooohhhh yes he does. 🎶

My honest reaction.

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all that knowledge in his head just accumulating over time

mr-sali: emiry214: allofthegrero: The Anatomical And...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:35:31 -0400

mr-sali:

emiry214:

allofthegrero:

The Anatomical And Physiological Details Of Death By Crucifixion:
By Dr. C. Truman Davis
A Physician Analyzes the Crucifixion.
From New Wine Magazine, April 1982.
Originally published in Arizona Medicine,
March 1965, Arizona Medical Association.

Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in 300 BC, and perfected by the Romans in 100 BC.

1,It is the most painful death ever invented by man and is where we get our term “excruciating.”

2,It was reserved primarily for the most vicious of male criminals.
Jesus refused the anaesthetic wine which was offered to Him by the Roman soldiers because of His promise in Matthew 26: 29, “But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

3,Jesus was stripped naked and His clothing divided by the Roman guards. This was in fulfilment of Psalm 22:18, “They divide My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”

4,The Crucifixion of Jesus guaranteed a horrific, slow, painful death.
Having been nailed the Cross, Jesus now had an impossible anatomical position to maintain.

5,Jesus’ knees were flexed at about 45 degrees, and He was forced to bear His weight with the muscles of His thigh, which is not an anatomical position which is possible to maintain for more than a few minutes without severe cramp in the muscles of the thigh and calf.

6,Jesus’ weight was borne on His feet, with nails driven through them.
As the strength of the muscles of Jesus’ lower limbs tired, the weight of His body had to be transferred to His wrists, His arms, and His shoulders.

7,Within a few minutes of being placed on the Cross, Jesus’ shoulders were dislocated.
Minutes later Jesus’ elbows and wrists became dislocated.

8,The result of these upper limb dislocations is that His arms were 9 inches longer than normal, as clearly shown on the Shroud.

9,In addition prophecy was fulfilled in Psalm 22:14, “I am poured out like water, and all My bones are out of joint.”

10,After Jesus’ wrists, elbows, and shoulders were dislocated, the weight of His body on his upper limbs caused traction forces on the Pectoralis Major muscles of His chest wall.

11,These traction forces caused His rib cage to be pulled upwards and outwards, in a most unnatural state. His chest wall was permanently in a position of maximal respiratory inspiration. In order to exhale, Jesus was physiologically required to force His body.

12,In order to breathe out, Jesus had to push down on the nails in His feet to raise His body, and allow His rib cage to move downwards and inwards to expire air from His lungs.

13,His lungs were in a resting position of constant maximum inspiration.
Crucifixion is a medical catastrophe.

14,The problem was that Jesus could not easily push down on the nails in His feet because the muscles of His legs, bent at 45 degrees, were extremely fatigued, in severe cramp, and in an anatomically compromised position.

15,Unlike all Hollywood movies about the Crucifixion, the victim was extremely active.
The crucified victim was physiologically forced to move up and down the cross, a distance of about 12 inches, in order to breathe.

16,The process of respiration caused excruciating pain, mixed with the absolute terror of asphyxiation.

17,As the six hours of the Crucifixion wore on, Jesus was less and less able to bear His weight on His legs, as His thigh and calf muscles became increasingly exhausted.
There was increasing dislocation of His wrists, elbows and shoulders, and further elevation of His chest wall, making His breathing more and more difficult
Within minutes of crucifixion Jesus became severely dyspnoeic (short of breath).

18,His movements up and down the Cross to breathe caused excruciating pain in His wrist, His feet, and His dislocated elbows and shoulders.

19,The movements became less frequent as Jesus became increasingly exhausted, but the terror of imminent death by asphyxiation forced Him to continue in His efforts to breathe.

20,Jesus’ lower limb muscles developed excruciating cramp from the effort of pushing down on His legs, to raise His body, so that He could breathe out, in their anatomically compromised position.

21,The pain from His two shattered median nerves in His wrists exploded with every movement.

22,Jesus was covered in blood and sweat.

23,The blood was a result of the Scourging that nearly killed Him, and the sweat as a result of His violent involuntary attempts to effort to expire air from His lungs.
Throughout all this He was completely naked, and the leaders of the Jews, the crowds, and the thieves on both sides of Him were jeering, swearing and laughing at Him.
In addition, Jesus’ own mother was watching.

24,Physiologically, Jesus’ body was undergoing a series of catastrophic and terminal events.

25,Because Jesus could not maintain adequate ventilation of His lungs, He was now in a state of hypoventilation (inadequate ventilation).

26,His blood oxygen level began to fall, and He developed Hypoxia (low blood oxygen).
In addition, because of His restricted respiratory movements, His blood carbon dioxide (CO2) level began to rise, a condition known as Hypercapnia.

27,This rising CO2 level stimulated His heart to beat faster in order to increase the delivery of oxygen, and the removal of CO2

28,The Respiratory Centre in Jesus’ brain sent urgent messages to his lungs to breathe faster, and Jesus began to pant.

29,Jesus’ physiological reflexes demanded that He took deeper breaths, and He involuntarily moved up and down the Cross much faster, despite the excruciating pain.
The agonising movements spontaneously started several times a minute, to the delight of the crowd who jeered Him, the Roman soldiers, and the Sanhedrin.

30,However, due to the nailing of Jesus to the Cross and His increasing exhaustion, He was unable to provide more oxygen to His oxygen starved body.

31,The twin forces of Hypoxia (too little oxygen) and Hypercapnia (too much CO2) caused His heart to beat faster and faster, and Jesus developed Tachycardia.

32,Jesus’ heart beat faster and faster, and His pulse rate was probably about 220 beats/ minute, the maximum normally sustainable.

33,Jesus had drunk nothing for 15 hours, since 6 pm the previous evening.
Jesus had endured a scourging which nearly killed Him.

34,He was bleeding from all over His body following the Scourging, the crown of thorns, the nails in His wrists and feet, and the lacerations following His beatings and falls.

35,Jesus was already very dehydrated, and His blood pressure fell alarmingly.

36,His blood pressure was probably about 80/50.

37,He was in First Degree Shock, with Hypovolaemia (low blood volume), Tachycardia (excessively fast Heart Rate), Tachypnoea (excessively fast Respiratory Rate), and Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating).

38,By about noon Jesus’ heart probably began to fail.

39,Jesus’ lungs probably began to fill up with Pulmonary Oedema.

40,This only served to exacerbate His breathing, which was already severely compromised.

41,Jesus was in Heart Failure and Respiratory Failure.

42,Jesus said, “I thirst” because His body was crying out for fluids.

43,Jesus was in desperate need of an intravenous infusion of blood and plasma to save His life

44,Jesus could not breathe properly and was slowly suffocating to death.

45,At this stage Jesus probably developed a Haemopericardium.

46,Plasma and blood gathered in the space around His heart, called the Pericardium.

47,This fluid around His heart caused Cardiac Tamponade (fluid around His heart, which prevented Jesus’ heart from beating properly).

48,Because of the increasing physiological demands on Jesus’ heart, and the advanced state of Haemopericardium, Jesus probably eventually sustained Cardiac Rupture. His heart literally burst. This was probably the cause of His death.

49,To slow the process of death the soldiers put a small wooden seat on the Cross, which would allow Jesus the “privilege” of bearing His weight on his sacrum.

50,The effect of this was that it could take up to nine days to die on a Cross.

51,When the Romans wanted to expedite death they would simply break the legs of the victim, causing the victim to suffocate in a matter of minutes. This was called Crucifragrum.

52,At three o’clock in the afternoon Jesus said, “Tetelastai,” meaning, “It is finished.”
At that moment, He gave up His Spirit, and He died.

53,When the soldiers came to Jesus to break His legs, He was already dead. Not a bone of His body was broken, in fulfilment of prophecy (above).

54,Jesus died after six hours of the most excruciating and terrifying torture ever invented.

55,Jesus died so that ordinary people like you and me could go to Heaven.

All He Asks You is to Love Him, Your Lord, Your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’!!

#42- He didn’t thirst for fluid. His thirst is for souls. For our hearts. For us.

Reblogging because the details.

Just mine & my baby…

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:22:19 -0400

Just mine & my baby…

Lmao

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:14:41 -0400

Lmao

New Orleans roadtrip …

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:15:54 -0400

New Orleans roadtrip …

Travelin’ Light… Feeling free. #nola #southernfried...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:06:44 -0400

Travelin’ Light… Feeling free. #nola #southernfried #blackonblackrhyme (at The Camellia Grill)

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Thu, 30 May 2013 11:51:47 -0400

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Wed, 29 May 2013 04:41:41 -0400

hjaybee:

naturalblkgirlsrock:

chizohfro:

mpr1m3:

mpr1m3

dont u do it.

simple.

Unless you’re my man:P

Friendly reminder

#HLXIII Stay woke. Freedom collection.

Sat, 25 May 2013 22:49:02 -0400

#HLXIII Stay woke. Freedom collection.

My hair goal!!!!

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:25:19 -0400

My hair goal!!!!

angryblackgirlsunited: Black Girl In Suburbia (documentary...

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:28:59 -0400

angryblackgirlsunited:

Black Girl In Suburbia (documentary trailer)

Black Girl In Suburbia is a feature documentary that looks into the experiences of Black girls growing up in predominately white communities. This is a different look into suburbia from the perspective of women of color. This film explores through professional and personal interviews the conflict and issues Black girls have relating to both white and Black communities.

Black Girl In Suburbia intends to spark an open dialogue about race, identity, and perspective among all people, in hopes that these discussions will allow us to reconsider perceptions of ourselves, others and the communities in which we live and share.

Release date 2014
http://www.blackgirlinsuburbia.com

Your support is appreciated!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-…

bellator4liberi: New Lauryn Hill- Neurotic Society Is it...

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:17:54 -0400

bellator4liberi:

New Lauryn Hill- Neurotic Society

Is it trueeeee

New Curly Routine ♥ Natural Hair ♥ Wash & Go (by...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:23:29 -0400

New Curly Routine ♥ Natural Hair ♥ Wash & Go (by SunKissAlba)

My NEW FAVORITE VLOG! #teamnatural

winefinedarkchicks: thrashonistas: Photo by...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:43:37 -0400

winefinedarkchicks:

thrashonistas:

Photo by THRASHONISTAS

Model- Ellie Reed

Makeup- Jasmine S. Garcia

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