Gina Telaroli
July 10, 2008 | 10:44 am EST
1) African Underground: Hip Hop in Senegal
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I’m always excited for new Spike Lee and this one is described a powerful tale that transcends national boundaries, something I am always interested in. Although this looks to be one of his more extravagant films. Do you think Lee’s intimate and political storytelling will work in a larger scale war story? Let us know and takepart to learn more about the “Buffalo Soldiers” in World War II and about Buffalo Soldiers in general.
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Tomorrow marks the first day of summer (and my Mom’s birthday - Happy Birthday Mom!) - so spend the day outside and then curl up with a good movie! These are my Top 10 Summer Inspired Movies.
And takepart to learn how to keep for your house cool for yes and also be better to the environment.
1. Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Social Action + Cinema Videos of the Day:
1) Media that Matters presents The Countdown
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On HuffPost today, the fabulous Jessica Wakeman questions New York Magazine’s cover for the This is New York 1968-2008 issue. Are the “cultural titans” of the big apple mostly white and mostly male?
Jessica points out that the article itself is culturally diverse:
To be fair, there’s several nice articles on the inside of the magazine extolling New York City’s imprint on film, TV and literature. In it, we see diversity that actually reflects cultural demographic reality: Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison, Spike Lee. And the intro to the whole package is about Rhoda, the Mary Tyler Moore spin-off.
She lists some of the best New York icons that didn’t make it in the magazine like Gloria Steinem, Ani di Franco, Julia Louis Dreyfus’ Elaine, Tina Fey, Yoko Ono, The Cosby Show, and the ladies of the Sex and The City. Who are your favorite New York icons?
Learn more about women and minorities in the media by visiting Women’s Media Center 
and Media Awareness Network .
Rosie Perez is talking about her awkward sex scene with John Leguizamo for the movie “The Take”. And everyone is talking about Rosie joining “Exit 19″ a CBS pilot with Geena Davis. But the most exciting Rosie related news is what she talked about when she spoke at Kutztown University, in Pennsylvania. Rosie told a crowd of over 400 people to “Listen to your hearts and do something about the injustices in the world.” Rosie also explained how her own activist spirit launched her career.
My life would not have changed if I didn’t have that activist spirit… If I didn’t have something inside me that I didn’t understand at that time, at 19 years old, that said, “ËœThis is wrong. I’m going to stand up and make this stop by any means necessary.’
What was it that the Brooklyn-native 19 year-old-boricua biochemistry major saw that made her so upset? It involved Spike Lee!
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Since the Academy Awards coincide with Black History Month, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight the top 10 black actors who have won Oscars for Best Actor/Actress in a Leading Role. So Hollywood–which harbors, aids and abets, politically-correct, identity-politics-spouting, hand-out giving, limousine liberals–can finally shut up about the so-called “racism” and all the other fake “isms” they claim exist and need to be addressed. Here’s the list of black Academy Award Winners for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Leading Role, in chronological order.
1. 1963: Sidney Poitier wins for his role as Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field, becoming the first African-American actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. 
1964-2000: Lots of white winners.
2. 2001: Denzel Washington wins Read the rest of this entry »for his role as civil rights luminary and martyr Malcolm X in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, wins for his role as Rubin Carter, the real life legendary boxer, convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, who overcomes the racist criminal justice system, police corruption and brutality, and proves his innocence through his persuasive and passionate autobiography in Hurricane, for his role as the corrupt, criminal, violent, lecherous cop, Alonzo Harris, in Training Day.
NAACP Image Awards, Academy Awards, Grammy’s are nothing new to the actor/activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. But for the first time ever, the dynamic duo win my Valiant Valentine Award. Valentine’s Day Week, kicked off my Valentine’s week-long series on the 5 coolest activist couples. I honored activist & actor Susan Sarandon and her partner, activist, actor & director Tim Robbins with a VVA, that’s a Valiant Valentine Award, for those of you just tuning in. Now I’m awarding another VVA to a couple who have shown their love for each other and for civil rights, human rights, and peace. And the award goes to…
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee were not only award-winning and distinguished actors, but social change-winning and distinguished civil rights activists. The couple, married for 56 years, won NAACP Image Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and was honored by the Kennedy Center, not only for their roles on stage and screen, but for their roles as trailblazers who opened the door for so many black actors who came after them.
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