Though I don't particularly care for their attitudes towards ADOS, I'd love to see the Toussaint L'ouverture movie that Danny Glover wanted to make.
Chadwick would have kicked ass as the General.
Vivian Malone, first black student to graduate from the University of Alabama
Charlayne Hunter Gault, first black student to graduate from the University of Georgia
Marie LaVeau, grand voodooienne of NOLA
Homer Plessy of Plessy v Ferguson (he could pass for white so...who could play him?! That would be the ONE time I'd excuse a white man for taking a role of a black person because Homer was only 1/8th African)
Angela Davis
Oprah Winfrey...they probably won't do it until she is gone.
Butterfly McQueen and Hattie McDaniel (Gone with the Wind)
Ida B. Wells
The first football games between black colleges
The founding of AKA (DST already has an unauthorized documentary they forbid members from viewing, owning or promoting)
Prince Hall, first black freemason in the USA
Shirley Chisolm
Duke Ellington life story
Rick James and Teena Marie's life story at the same time...can't really have one without the other for context
Sade's life story (her childhood, rise to fame)
Maynard Jackson, Dutch Morial, Harold Washington, Marion Berry, first black mayors of major cities in the 1970s-1980s
Black Mafia Family (sorry but y'all watched New Jack City, might as well)
Cicely Tyson life story (Miles Davis left her for his wife Betty and came back!)
Betty Davis (Janelle Monae would KILL it)
The jazz scene in New Orleans during Jelly Roll Morton era 1930s
The slave revolt in New Orleans in the 1800s
Rosette Rochon (her parents/family and her rise to infamy as the riches woman of color in the USA in the early 1800s and how she earned her coint)
Yassssss! I got his CD compilation in the mid-90s and still love it.Robert Johnson story (Blues artist)
Movies that have black ppl happy and not madpeople should know more about the era of reconstruction. it's downplayed as "40 acres and a mule," but that time was a big deal. the largest event of land redistribution to black people and black people made incredible strides in achieving public office.
however, the backlash was soooo violent. it setsthe stage for the types of policies and racism we experience today. jim crow laws come out of this moment, the klan comes out of this moment, lincoln was giving reparations to former slave owners over freed slaves. it's just a terribly enlightening moment in history and i wish more people knew about it.
1. Alvin Ailey
2. How black teachers integrated the school system
y’all are awesome in here with these suggestions. I’m gonna b googling a lot if these. Y’all be blessed
Film adaptation of the videogame Papa y Yo
Harlem Renaissance and Cotton Club and Langston Hughes (Black people were so damn glamorous!)
Sundiata Keita
The Black Panther Party
Ben Carson (politics aside he was an amazing surgeon)
The Pact (4 or 5 Black men made a promise to become medical doctors and did that!)
Miniseries of Our Kind Of People (a story about the BGLOs, masons, HBCUs would be amazing)
Black truckers
Black people and the class struggle
In regards to Number two, Wasn't there a movie starring Taraji P. Henson that came out about that?
A movie about black American families who first arrived in nova scotia.