This program features filmed prison interviews with Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, an organization that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once labeled as "the greatest internal threat to the security of the United States." Imprisoned in 1967 for the manslaughter of a white police officer in Oakland, Newton was freed in 1971 when a California Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. In these interviews, Newton elaborates on his revolutionary politics and his "Ten Point Plan," a manifesto which called for, among other things, black community self-determination, full employment, decent housing for black people, an end to police brutality, and "an immediate end to all wars of aggression," meaning the Vietnam War. Born in 1942, Newton earned a Ph.D. in 1980, and died in 1989 after being shot by a low-level drug dealer.
This film is the third part of a stunning, gritty trilogy, originally aired on HBO as part of the "America Under Cover" series. The first two installments("Hookers at the Point", parts 1 & 2) dealt exclusively with the lives of the prostitutes. The drug addiction, violence, legal entanglements, and broken relationships associated with "the life" were throughly explored. This film is exactly what is claims to be - a look into the life of a pimp. This film accurately reflects how Pimps live. They had the gold, the cars, the 'gators, and the women. They live fast and died young. I recommend viewing all three parts of the series. As a stand alone film, "Pimps Up, Ho's Down" is a tour-de-force about the pimpin'.
Streetball Volume 2, real street ball, real moves, the absolute TRUTH!!! Streetball has always been about controlling your court, having a rep and who is the next hottest kid on the block. It is about fire hydrant and summertime in NYC. It is about your love of the game. It is about the one thing you can't buySKILLZ! SBC Volume 2 features the hottest Streetball players in the Big Apple: Bone Collector, Headache, Cross Country, Kareem Reid, and the amazing Mike Green (aka No Exception). Hot dunks, ankle breaking crosses, nasty dimes and more are featured in this second installment of the Platinum selling Streetball Classics Volume 1.
What we see on MTV, BET and hear on commercial radio is only a small view of the world of Rap music.
Redefinitions shines light on the foundation of Hip Hop culture, and the players who plan to take it to the next level.
Features Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Red Alert, Heather B, Cassius D (of The Zulu Nation), Umar Bin Hassan, Grandmaster Caz, Blackalicious, Prezni Blackman from MTV, Raheem DeVaughn, Talib Kweli, and Slum Village
A true story about some of the most notorious inmate slashings in NYC's correctional facility: Rikers Island
Troy Reed's latest documentary on New York City's most notorious correctional facility, Rikers Island. This documentary explicitly shows gruesome inmate slashings, police corruption, and everyday life on the island, during the late 80's and early 90's. Some of Troy Reed’s projects include, “The Larry Davis Story”, “Game Over”, “The Guy Fisher Story, and the long awaited release of “The Karlton Hines Story”.
Executive Produced by: Street Stars/ Troy Reed
Directed by: Troy Reed
Assistant Director: Lorenzo Steele
Narrated by: Troy Reed
Music by: Heatmakers, Showbiz, Yogi, Wali World, Buckwild, & Kevin Merrit
It is startling to realize that even though it is outlawed in many third-world nations and prohibited by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of The United Nations, human slavery still is rampant in our modern civilization.
This hard-hitting documentary brings hidden cameras to locations in Africa, India and the Middle East in order to expose this scandalous evil. Blindfolded little girl slaves are shown drawing water at primitive wells, while sad-eyed indentured children carry the school books of the offspring of Arab chieftains.
There are heartbreaking images of chained men, women and children who are sold in remote areas to avoid the eye of police and government authorities. In one African country a woman may be worth a horse with a harness. In another region, poverty forces a father to sell his adolescent daughter into a life of misery in exchange for a few glass bottles. Some African tribes even emasculate their young boys in order to sell them to the Middle Eastern sheiks as harem guards.
Another tribe is so poor that the members offer themselves to slave traders for agonizing lashings in order to demonstrate which are the strongest of their lot.
These are but a few of the countless examples of slavery and human exploitation in contemporary society that are told in this shocking and harrowing documentary.
