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Inside The Get Down
Baz Luhrmann’s First Foray Onto the Small Screen
Vogue Magazine
By: Nathan Heller
Visionary director Baz Luhrmann makes his first foray into small-screen drama with his series The Get Down, an exploration of the birth of hip-hop in the Bronx, c. 1977.
Grandmaster Flash helped drive the course of hip-hop from obscurity to the top of the charts, but on the balcony floor of the Box, a club on New York’s Chrystie Street, the DJ is now along for the ride. “Baz is like, ‘Flash, I want to make you a character in the show,’ ” the Grandmaster recalls as a film crew ferries lights and sound equipment up a staircase. “I’m like, ‘OK, Bazzy.’ ” He grins. “I call him Bazzy.” Flash is wearing jet-black pants and a button-down that jibes with his blue sneakers. At 58, he looks less like the scrappy kid who recharged American music than the set’s most polished star—as he is, although he never actually appears on-screen. In preproduction meetings, Flash elaborated on his memories from the seventies, when he started as a DJ. An actor, Mamoudou Athie, is playing him in his youth, incorporating many of the crucial details. Watching him, the Grandmaster is dazzled. “I’m like, OK,” he explains. “I’m going to open up all my secrets.”
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10 Things Black People Like More Than Donald Trump
BY: BRITNI DANIELLE for Ebony Magazine JUNE 16, 2016
Donald Trump says he'll win over Black voters in November, but a new poll shows a 'YUGE' percentage of Black folks have an unfavorable view of the GOP nominee.
Since getting into the presidential race last summer, Donald Trump has maintained he will do “great” with African American voters. In spite of being sued by the federal government for discriminating against Black renters, claiming he doesn’t understand the phrase, “Black Lives Matter,” and telling crowds to “look at my African American. Isn’t he great?” Trump has continuously insisted he will somehow win over Black voters.
But according to a recent survey by the Washington Post and ABC, the presumptive Republican nominee is extremely unpopular with Black Americans. In fact, while 70 percent of all voters have an unfavorable view of the real estate magnate, a whopping 94 percent of Black voters are not feeling Trump.
In other words, Trump’s popularity with Black folks falls somewhere between the man who killed Cochise in Cooley High and Massa Tom Lea in Roots.
And while there are a few Black people who are rolling with Trump—Herman Cain, Stacey Dash, and Ben Carson, to name a few—there’s a long list of people and things who are more popular than Trump among Black Americans.
Shall we?
MICHAEL JORDAN'S CRYING MEME
Not a day goes by that someone, somewhere doesn’t trot out Jordan’s tear-stained face. We’ve seen it pop up after NBA games, during political debates, and even for world events. Trump wishes he was as “yuge” as MJ’s face right now.
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Bill Nunn aka "Radio Raheem" Dies at age 62
Bill Nunn, a veteran actor who appeared in Spike Lee's film, "Do the Right Thing," has died. He was 62. Lee paid tribute to the man who played Radio Raheem in the movie, describing him as a dear friend and a great actor. Nunn and Lee both attended Morehouse College in Atlanta. Nunn died Saturday in his hometown in Pittsburgh, Lee said. "Radio Raheem is now resting in power," Lee said. "Radio Raheem will always be fighting da powers dat be. May God watch over Bill Nunn."
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