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Billie Holiday is beaming in a 1956 photograph as she gazes at singer Billy Eckstine.

The serendipitous occurrence of this year's Thanksgiving holiday on the same evening as the Muslim Eid-ul-Adha is a festive occasion to reflect on the place of Islam in American collective consciousness and on Muslims as Americans.

Black Liberation Theology, generally understood to have been born during social changes of the 1960s and 1970s, may have its roots in the revolutionary acts of African-American church founders of the 1790s.

This time it was an 18-year-old from Queens. This time the gun was a 9-mm. semiautomatic.

I've been enjoying Spike Lee films for the better part of my adulthood--following his films long enough to appreciate all the nuances that go along with his brand of filmmaking.

Monday, November 16, 2009 Black Conservatives on television I don't know how many people saw this on Friday.

The a 60s is steeped in nostalgia. There was a lot going on: a sexual revolution; the Vietnam War; Martin Luther King Jr.a s a oeI Have A Dreama speech; the assassinations of King, Malcolm X and President John F. Kennedy.

It's been twenty years since Do the Right Thing but Spike Lee has continued to grow and innovate as a filmmaker, pushing himself to work outside his comfort zone while never completely leaving his deep-seated convictions about race in America.

On Nov. 9, Lupe Fiasco joined executive producer Chris Moore and author and producer Howard Zinn to discuss a new documentary, "The People Speak." The film, which will air Dec.

A very perceptive quote attributed to Nelson Mandela states that "a good head and a good heart are a formidable combination." Anyone reading the informative, thought-provoking, very readable, very inspiring book, "Nobody Gave Me Permission," a memoir about the life of Ora Mobley Sweeting, will realize that she has that formidable combination.

Film review: 'William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe' William Kunstler was one of the most reviled figures of the 20th Century.

There's a bumper crop of star-filled revivals coming in the spring. Denzel Washington joins Scarlett Johansson and Abigail Breslin.

A pliable, somewhat paunchy character player of TV and films whose parts increased in size with the advent of middle age, Albert Hall made a strong impression as Baines, the brother who introduces Malcolm Little to.... A pliable, somewhat paunchy character player of TV and films whose parts increased in size with the advent of middle age, Albert ...

William Kunstler was one of the most reviled figures of the 20th Century. For he was an attorney who not only represented controversial causes and unpopular people, but his approach in the courtroom involved exposing the racism and classicism permeating the legal justice system.

Every year the Coalition on Political Assassinations meets in Dallas to commemorate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Daniel Finkelstein, the ex-editor of The Times wrote a piece on the eve of Obama's election about the key difference between Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, arguing that while Martin Luther King's non-violence moved mountains, Malcolm X's violent quest for segregation made him wholly ineffectual.

Spike Lee's always been outspoken -- bashing fellow filmmakers for ignoring black contributions at Iwo Jima or for being too white to direct Malcolm X . Sometimes he has a point, sometimes he's just popping off.

In Section: ON SCREEN >> Costa-Gavras' late-1960s film Z gets the Criterion treatment with the new DVD release this week.

The French-Algerian thriller Z arrived in the United States at the end of a decade marred by political assassinations .

The Novocain has got to wear off for black Americans and progressives. When it does, they will see that President Barack Obama is not their savior.