There will be a free screening of The Black List (volumes one and two) at the Wadsworth Atheneum on July 15th at 7pm. The project is described as:
the brainchild of renowned portrait photographer/filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and acclaimed KCRW public radio host, journalist and former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell, with Greenfield-Sanders directing and Mitchell conducting the interviews. […] The actual title of the film itself, The Black List, was first conceived by Mitchell as an answer to the persistent taint that western culture has applied to the word “black.”
Greenfield-Sanders will be present for a post-film discussion. The Black List contains interviews with:
Slash, former Guns N’ Roses guitarist; Toni Morrison, author and Nobel laureate; Keenen Ivory Wayans, film writer/director, creator of TV’s In Living Color; Vernon Jordan, lawyer and former president of the National Urban League; Faye Wattleton, current President of the Center for the Advancement of Women and former President of Planned Parenthood; Marc Morial, former Mayor of New Orleans and current National Urban League president; Serena Williams, eight-time Grand Slam tennis champion; Lou Gossett Jr., Oscar®-winning actor; Lorna Simpson, artist and photographer; Mahlon Duckett, former Negro League Baseball star; Zane, best-selling erotic author and publisher; Al Sharpton, pastor, activist and 2004 Presidential candidate; Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Hall of Fame basketball great; Thelma Golden, art curator at the Whitney Museum and now the Studio Museum in Harlem; Sean Combs, mogul, actor and music producer; Susan Rice, former Assistant Secretary of State and Barack Obama’s senior campaign advisor; Chris Rock, comedian, producer and director; Suzan-Lori Parks, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; Richard Parsons, former Time Warner CEO; Dawn Staley, 3- time Olympic gold medalist, WNBA All-Star and current Temple University women’s basketball head coach; and Bill T. Jones, Tony Award-winning dancer and director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; [and] activist and artist Majora Carter; activist and academic Angela Davis; producer Suzanne de Passe; actor Laurence Fishburne; Anglican Bishop Barbara Harris; Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick; pastor T.D. Jakes; physician and academic Valerie Montgomery-Rice, M.D.; filmmaker Tyler Perry; singer Charley Pride; fashion designer Patrick Robinson; actress Maya Rudolph; musician RZA; filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles; and artist Kara Walker.
The Black List Project is presented by the Amistad Center for Art & Culture and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
EmGee
I watched this on HBO a few months back. So, so good.
lobonick
fyi… incident at tisane…
HARTFORD — – Ned Coll, the activist and sometime presidential candidate, was arrested about 11 p.m. Tuesday after getting into a dispute with the manager of Tisane, a Farmington Avenue restaurant.
Police said Coll was a patron at the business when a panhandler who frequents the area walked by. Coll gave the woman some money, then began to speak with her.
The Tisane manager asked the woman to move along, police said. Coll became upset with the manager and the situation escalated to the point that restaurant staff called police.
Coll, 69, who lives in Hartford’s west end and has a home in Barkhamsted, was charged with second-degree breach of peace and first-degree criminal trespass. He was released on a written promise to appear in court Thursday in Hartford.
Coll said Tuesday afternoon that the woman approached him.
“This lady came up to me, and she was poor, and I helped her,” Coll said. “This guy cuts in and says ‘don’t give her any money.’ That’s where I got ticked. It’s not his business if I’m helping somebody.”
Coll, who founded an anti-poverty agency called the Revitalization Corps, said restaurant staff then attacked him and dragged him out.
Jack Terry, the general manager at Tisane Euro Asian Cafe, said the panhandler has been an ongoing problem at the restaurant and has been arrested before.
He said the restaurant’s assistant manager was escorting the panhandler off the restaurant’s property when “Mr. Coll began screaming at him, calling him a Nazi and eventually spit on him.” So restaurant staff decided to call police.
Coll was arrested after he refused to leave the restaurant, police and.
“I called the guy a Nazi,” Coll said. “I didn’t spit on that guy. That’s an outrageous lie.”
Coll said he suffered a scape to his elbow while being removed from the restaurant.
kerri provost
It sounds like an incident handled poorly by all. I hate when people throw around the term “Nazi,” and I hate when obnoxious managers wield their power randomly. I was not there, so I don’t know what went on, but I have been at Tisane in the past on a Tuesday evening and witnessed two people exit a single-person bathroom at the same time. Management doesn’t seem to care about patrons who are likely either having sex or using drugs on the premises, but the second someone interferes with the “atmosphere,” there’s a problem.
I’d suggest the management there spend more time worrying about the inconsistent quality of waiters’ service, and less time with patrons deciding to give money to panhandlers (which I don’t think even begins to resolve the issue of poverty anyway).
lobonick
beautiful commentary kerri.
lobonick
this guy apparently is on a roll…
HARTFORD – A 69-year-old local activist and sometime presidential candidate was charged by police with trespassing at the Gold Building shortly before 1 p.m. today.
It was Ned Coll’s second arrest this week.
Police received a complaint that Coll refused requests by security to leave the building. When officers arrived and tried taking him into custody, Coll took a swing at an officer, said Assistant Police Chief Neil Dryfe.
“He resisted and had to be taken down onto the ground before being handcuffed,” Dryfe said.
Coll is charged with first-degree criminal trespass, second-degree breach of peace and interfering with police. He was held on $7,500 bail, and a court date at Superior Court in Hartford was set for July 21.
Coll was arrested about 11 p.m. Tuesday after getting into a dispute with the manager of Tisane. Police said Coll was a patron at the Farmington Avenue restaurant when a panhandler who frequents the area walked by.
Coll gave the woman some money and became upset when the manager asked the woman to move along, police said. The situation escalated to the point that restaurant staff called police.
Coll, who lives in Hartford’s West End and has a home in Barkhamsted, was charged with second-degree breach of peace and first-degree criminal trespass.
kerri provost
He’s not exactly making the best argument for his innocence in all this. I’m curious about what else was involved in this trespassing arrest.
lobonick
probably one of the last places one would want to mess around at: UTC headquarters. the security there is probably all ex-cia agents and former military police.