“The Bombing of Osage Avenue” and other links…
AroundHarlem.com last summer: “On Mother’s Day, 1985, a virtual army of city and state police converged on a quiet block in historic Cobb’s Creek, a blossoming neighborhood of parks and children, aluminum siding and basketball stars nestled in the heart of Philadelphia’s African American community. By the next day, 61 homes were destroyed and 11 people were dead, all members of the communitarian MOVE organization. In this, the winner of 1986’s Best Documentary Academy Award, Massiah establishes the setting for the tragedy early on, and Toni Cade Bambara’s poetic narration draws us deeper into the drama. …Ramona Africa is the sole survivor of the 1985 MOVE bombing.”
Burnt Sugar’s Channel on YouTube.com
Check out the “urban” sci-fi stylings on burntsugars Channel. I like the title of one motion pix, “Blackbody Radiation.” I do commend the youthful sisters and brothers trying take back their vision from white media. But I also criticize: my peoples! never, never, never borrow the phrase “post apocalyptic” to describe any future after right now. To do this—and some of you will defiantly still do this—you are saying that what your Africaness is living in right now is not post-apocalyptic. This is an outrageous cultural and historical oversight. You are saying that what your home blood is coursing through right now is civilization. My suggestion for your mental health is to stop doing this. Marvin Gaye told us back in the day: This ain’t living. This ain’t livin’—no, no, baby: This ain’t livin’…
Dr. Gerald Horne praises “Brothers in Arms”
paff.org: “The fasinating story of Ronald Herboldt, an ordinary man whose sense of justice and decency led to his making his own unique contribution to Cuba and the liberation of Southern Africa. In December 1958, during the Cuban Revolution, Ronald was a twenty-one-year-old from Salt River, Cape Town working on a South African cargo ship, the Constantia, that had docked in Cuba to load sugar. When members of Fidel Castro’s Rebel Army boarded the ship to check for arms and witnessed the mistreatment of the non-whites on board, they encouraged Ronald to jump ship. He did so and joined the rebels fighting for the liberation of Cuba from the Batista dictatorship. After the events of the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis, Ronald was effectively in exile from South Africa. He married and raised a family in Cuba, but throughout his exile he never lost his love for Cape Town and his South African family or his desire to return home to a liberated South Africa.”
Dr. Gerald Horne mentions this movie during his interview in “Gerald Horne: From Cuba to Kosovo” here in the kinté space.