Before becoming the Tennessee Williams playwright-in-residence at his alma mater, Sewanee, Thomas Lakeman wrote in and for Hollywood. Even though Lakeman has worked on a Tom Cruise production, he did not once jump up and down on the couch. As he discusses his page-turning thrillers, including Broken Wing and Shadow Catchers, the conversation is informative as well as candid.
Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 1:44PM Wendy Reed | Post a Comment | Share Article tagged Bookmark, Episode, Wendy Reed 
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Maysles Cinema in Harlem
That the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale is a common misconception. In fact the party symbol and the roots of its philosophy of self-determination and self defense can be traced to rural Lowndes County in Alabama by way of Harlem, New York. Dwight Cammeron’s program remembers the efforts of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to mobilize the African American majority of “Bloody Lowndes” to exercise their political voice by forming a local political party in the face of brutal repression.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:52AM Dwight Cammeron | Post a Comment | Share Article tagged Dwight Cammeron, black panther party, lowndes county 
