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Gordon Parks Talks About His Days At The YMCA (video)

Posted on September 27, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Gordon Parks, the man who caught the eye of Marva Louis, the elegant wife of the heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis, Continue reading →

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HW Nominations For the Best Five Films Ever Made in Harlem

Posted on February 26, 2012 by | 4 Comments
 

While The 84th Academy Award nominations are telling you who and what talent to keep your eyes on for the upcoming Oscars on February 26th, at 7 pm on ABC. We here at Harlem World Magazine thought we would nominate our best five films ever made in Harlem, starting with the best first. Continue reading →

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Isaac Hayes, Right On Brotha!

Posted on August 11, 2008 by | 2 Comments

Hot Buttered Soul from Harlem to Watts

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American soul and funk singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, arranger, composer, and actor.

Pure funk and soul, Isaac Hayes sings his classic ‘Shaft’ with an introduction by Reverend Jesse Jackson on August 20th, 1972 at WattsStax to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots and black power, pride, culture, tradition and heritage struggle at the Los Angeles Coliseum:

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HW Pick: ‘Shaft (Trailer),’ 1971

Posted on July 13, 2008 by | Leave a comment

Shaft is a 1971 American film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An action film with elements of film noir, Shaft tells the story of a black private detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster.

It stars Richard Roundtree as Shaft, Moses Gunn as Bumpy Jonas, Charles Cioffi as Lt. Vic Androzzi, Christopher St. John as Ben Buford, and Gwenn Mitchell and Lawrence Pressman in smaller roles. The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black from Tidyman’s 1971 novel of the same name. Continue reading →

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