Matthew Sullivan
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I’ll protect you from the hooded claw.
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When I was a kid living on 151st & Broadway many musicians lived in that hood including a saxophonist who once blew his tenor on numerous jazz, doo-wop, R & B and early rock ’n’ roll tracks. His name was Jesse Powell, and in the early 1970s he gave up that life and opened a candy store.
From the Soul: On the Life & Music of Jesse Powell
Evergreen Review
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November 24, 2025 at 6:09 AM
When I was a kid living on 151st & Broadway many musicians lived in that hood including a saxophonist who once blew his tenor on numerous jazz, doo-wop, R & B and early rock ’n’ roll tracks. His name was Jesse Powell, and in the early 1970s he gave up that life and opened a candy store.
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Hey y'all, we have @suzetski.bsky.social's interview with @arunkundnani.bsky.social about H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin live on our website.
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spectrejournal.com/h-rap-brown-...
H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Perils of Forgetting – Spectre Journal
susie day talks with Arun Kundnani about the unfortunately forgotten H. Rap Brown. Brown, now Imam Jamil Al-Amin, urgently needs medical care.
spectrejournal.com
February 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hey y'all, we have @suzetski.bsky.social's interview with @arunkundnani.bsky.social about H. Rap Brown/Jamil Al-Amin live on our website.
spectrejournal.com/h-rap-brown-...
spectrejournal.com/h-rap-brown-...
I’d be surprised if this image makes it through the mods process, but here goes. On the day he passed imprisoned, aged 82 as Jamil Al Amin. Here is the cover of H. Rap Brown’s memoir from 1969.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I’d be surprised if this image makes it through the mods process, but here goes. On the day he passed imprisoned, aged 82 as Jamil Al Amin. Here is the cover of H. Rap Brown’s memoir from 1969.
RIP to Jamil Al Amin, the former chair of SNCC & one time minister of Justice for the Black Panther Party. Died imprisoned, with cancer aged 82.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
RIP to Jamil Al Amin, the former chair of SNCC & one time minister of Justice for the Black Panther Party. Died imprisoned, with cancer aged 82.
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“Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.”
H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown
June 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.”
H. Rap Brown
H. Rap Brown
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Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Jamil Al Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown has passed. Jamil was a political prisoner, an Imam & leader in the Islamic community, chairman of SNCC, Minster of Justice in the Black Panther Party. A revolutionary & a target of COINTELPRO and U.S. police agencies. Rest in Power
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This remarkable obit carries a century of American cultural, social, racial, and political history in it. (As H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin has a one-sentence cameo in my book Pictures at a Revolution, describing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in language not shareable here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This remarkable obit carries a century of American cultural, social, racial, and political history in it. (As H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin has a one-sentence cameo in my book Pictures at a Revolution, describing Guess Who's Coming to Dinner in language not shareable here.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...
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"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
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Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, Formerly Known As H. Rap Brown, Passes Away At 82 #RestinPower
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, Formerly Known As H. Rap Brown, Passes Away At 82 - WBLS
During the 1960s, he was one of the most prominent figures in the Black Power Movement.
www.wbls.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, Formerly Known As H. Rap Brown, Passes Away At 82 #RestinPower
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Declan Kiberd has written about how long it once was. Serious editing…
In the time since I first read it, I spent a lot of time in Leitrim and many of the landmarks are so familiar (the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon for one). Have you seen this before? www.rte.ie/media-embed/...
In the time since I first read it, I spent a lot of time in Leitrim and many of the landmarks are so familiar (the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon for one). Have you seen this before? www.rte.ie/media-embed/...
Dustin
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November 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Declan Kiberd has written about how long it once was. Serious editing…
In the time since I first read it, I spent a lot of time in Leitrim and many of the landmarks are so familiar (the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon for one). Have you seen this before? www.rte.ie/media-embed/...
In the time since I first read it, I spent a lot of time in Leitrim and many of the landmarks are so familiar (the bridge in Carrick-on-Shannon for one). Have you seen this before? www.rte.ie/media-embed/...
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Which of you sweet bastards recommended Play Dirty (1969) to me? @pulpcurry.bsky.social ? It was incredible. Glad it's getting a re-appraisal. Nasty, though!
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Which of you sweet bastards recommended Play Dirty (1969) to me? @pulpcurry.bsky.social ? It was incredible. Glad it's getting a re-appraisal. Nasty, though!
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#KentState: MfTV docudrama about days leading to/including murder of four college protestors by Nat'l Guard.
This isn't good. It uses too much of its 2:25 runtime poorly developing too many characters & failing to grow tension. As for the two military/student stand-offs, their direction is leaden.
This isn't good. It uses too much of its 2:25 runtime poorly developing too many characters & failing to grow tension. As for the two military/student stand-offs, their direction is leaden.
#NowWatching
#25Y24F #2192
James Goldstone's
KENT STATE [1981]
Original Watch: 02/08/81* on Network Television
Current Watch: 11/23/25 on YouTube
#TreadmillTheater
#25Y24F #2192
James Goldstone's
KENT STATE [1981]
Original Watch: 02/08/81* on Network Television
Current Watch: 11/23/25 on YouTube
#TreadmillTheater
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#KentState: MfTV docudrama about days leading to/including murder of four college protestors by Nat'l Guard.
This isn't good. It uses too much of its 2:25 runtime poorly developing too many characters & failing to grow tension. As for the two military/student stand-offs, their direction is leaden.
This isn't good. It uses too much of its 2:25 runtime poorly developing too many characters & failing to grow tension. As for the two military/student stand-offs, their direction is leaden.
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Nothing to spoil this morning and sometimes only Motown can scratch that itch youtu.be/eA_kl48xHmQ?...
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Nothing to spoil this morning and sometimes only Motown can scratch that itch youtu.be/eA_kl48xHmQ?...
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Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Re-reading Amongst Women for work and had forgotten how terrifying Moran is. One of the sourest patriarchs in Irish literature. It’s uncomfortable reading; constantly feeling uneasy for the characters, a mark of how masterful McGahern is. Very glad that Ireland is long gone. @faberbooks.bsky.social
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#Noirvember podcast - I talked with Mike White and Carol Borden about Robert Montgomery's RIDE THE PINK HORSE. Also on this episode of @projectionbooth.bsky.social Sarah Weinman discusses Dorothy B. Hughes! www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2020/11/epis...
Episode 493: Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Noirvember 2020 continues with a look at Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse which was from the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes.
www.projectionboothpodcast.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
#Noirvember podcast - I talked with Mike White and Carol Borden about Robert Montgomery's RIDE THE PINK HORSE. Also on this episode of @projectionbooth.bsky.social Sarah Weinman discusses Dorothy B. Hughes! www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2020/11/epis...
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#booksky #books 21092 Penguin 15955 The Railway Station Man / Jennifer Johnston (4th post-1989, charity shop £1) TV movie tie-in for a forgottwen Donald Sutherland/Julie Christie reunion in the sadness and isolation of a deserted old station in the empty countryside, elegantly captured in the gaps
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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One from the vaults! The 1970 paperback of The Seeds of Time with cover art by Harry Willock
November 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One from the vaults! The 1970 paperback of The Seeds of Time with cover art by Harry Willock
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A COAL FIRED fryer 🙏
Rochdale chippy owners Jimmy and Elsie Greenwood with their coal-fired fryer, May 1973.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
A COAL FIRED fryer 🙏
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52 Pick-Up (1986) John Frankenheimer adapts Elmore Leonard on a Cannon Films budget
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
November 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
52 Pick-Up (1986) John Frankenheimer adapts Elmore Leonard on a Cannon Films budget
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
Roy Scheider's life goes sideways when he's caught in a honey trap & blackmailed by 3 small-time scumbags
If Spencer Tracy & Henri-Georges Clouzot made a sleazy 80s exploration flic, this would be that movie
1/7
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Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
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A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
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pod.fo/e/3564bb
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM
A beloved British hero, a masked German, a super-weapon, and... a time-travelling 1980s New York executive? We're watching the ultimate crime against literature and cinema: the Biggles movie. With @wallaceme.bsky.social of Total Politics, who was scarred for life by this film.
pod.fo/e/3564bb
pod.fo/e/3564bb
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New today on the site:
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973): Weaponized Expectations
Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat By the Door is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New today on the site:
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
“Ivan Dixon’s THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) is a pipe bomb on the video store shelf, a gasoline-filled wine bottle in your DVD cabinet, a vicious bit of malware streamed through hijacked plutocrat satellites.”
- Bryan Miller
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Researching pirate history, I was surprised to learn that some of them could have been Parker's ancestors. They didn't do all their heisting at sea. Sometimes, they made commando raids on land, knocking over entire cities.
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Researching pirate history, I was surprised to learn that some of them could have been Parker's ancestors. They didn't do all their heisting at sea. Sometimes, they made commando raids on land, knocking over entire cities.
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In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In 1981, eight Louisiana hillbillies tried to invade Dominica, kill Eugenia Charles, and take over the government. One was Don Black, who later founded Stormfront. They claimed at trial that Ron Paul knew about their plan and encouraged them.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.
A brave headliner writer got “Bayou of Pigs” out of it.