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		<title>Happy Birthday Steamboat Willie!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/11/happy-birthday-steamboat-willie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Nov. 18, 1928, Walt Disney's first sound-synchronized animated cartoon, "Steamboat Willie" starring Mickey Mouse, premiered in New York]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates – Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[HOT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies That Made Us]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our celebration of 100 Years of Black Cinema, the next part of “Within Our Gates”, an early work of one of one of Black Cinema’s founding fathers — Oscar Micheaux. ]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux&#8217;s Lying Lips &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-lying-lips-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our look at 100 years of Black Cinema, here&#8217;s part 3 of another early work by Oscar Micheaux. Made in 1939, &#8220;Lying Lips&#8221; was Micheaux&#8217;s 37th film. It stars Edna Mae Harris and Robert Earl Jones (James Earl Jones&#8217; father). SYNOPSIS: Elsie, a popular nightclub singer, refuses to go out with the customers at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux&#8217;s Lying Lips &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-lying-lips-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-lying-lips-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Film school continues as we look at  another Micheaux film, this one from 1939 starring Edna Mae Harris and Robert Earl Jones.]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux’s Within Our Gates – Part 3</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheaux%e2%80%99s-within-our-gates-%e2%80%93-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheaux%e2%80%99s-within-our-gates-%e2%80%93-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our celebration of 100 Years of Black Cinema, Part 3 of "Within Our Gates", an early work of one of one of Black Cinema's founding fathers -- Oscar Micheaux.]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux&#8217;s Within Our Gates &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-within-our-gates-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-within-our-gates-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing our celebration of 100 Years of Black Cinema, Part 2 of "Within Our Gates", an early work of one of one of Black Cinema's founding fathers -- Oscar Micheaux.]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Micheaux&#8217;s Within Our Gates &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-within-our-gates-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2010/02/oscar-micheauxs-within-our-gates-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch "Within Our Gates", the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.]]></description>
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		<title>African Cinema: Djibril Diop Mambéty&#8217;s Hyenas playing July 2!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/06/african-cinema-djibril-diop-mambetys-hyenas-playing-july-2/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/06/african-cinema-djibril-diop-mambetys-hyenas-playing-july-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In it&#8217;s fourth year, Black World Cinema is a showcase of seldom seen classic features and new films from around the world. Black World Cinema presents films by filmmakers that bring us story with compelling content and human dimension seldom presented in mainstream cinema. All screenings are followed by lively discussions moderated by program director [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[CANNES] Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori promoting &#8216;Kites&#8217; &#8211; UPDATE!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-hrithik-roshan-and-barbara-mori-promoting-kites/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/cannes-hrithik-roshan-and-barbara-mori-promoting-kites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Mumbai) Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan is screening his much-talked about film &#8220;Kites&#8221; with co-star Barbara Mori, said his father Rakesh Roshan, who also added that he will project the movie as his production house&#8217;s first truly international product. Director Anurag Basu will also join them. Hrithik, Anurag, representatives from Big Pictures are all in Cannes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad idea #3,904,658,201: American Gladiator &#8211; the movie</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/bad-idea-3904658201-american-gladiator-the-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/bad-idea-3904658201-american-gladiator-the-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an announcement apparently timed to support California&#8217;s proposal to legalize weed, Variety reports today that there is an American Gladiator movie in the works. And it&#8217;s NOT a Will Ferrell or Ben Stiller movie. Some ideas are best for YouTube, and that&#8217;s that. Johnny Ferraro, creator of the &#8220;American Gladiators&#8221; TV franchise, noted &#8220;American [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Precious: Based on the novel “PUSH” by Sapphire &#8211; update!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/precious-based-on-the-novel-%e2%80%9cpush%e2%80%9d-by-sapphire-update/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/05/precious-based-on-the-novel-%e2%80%9cpush%e2%80%9d-by-sapphire-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 18:46:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was some back and forth about this film, which isn&#8217;t rated yet, and will be released November 6. Mostly, the confusion was around who was distributing it. Well, looks like it&#8217;s settled. Lionsgate has the film, and is officially referring to it as &#8220;in association with Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry&#8221;. Now, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Youssou N&#8217;Dour: Return to Gorée</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/youssou-ndour-return-to-goree/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/youssou-ndour-return-to-goree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A musical road movie, Youssou N&#8217;Dour: Return to Gorée follows Senegalese singer Youssou N&#8217;Dour&#8217;s historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N&#8217;Dour&#8217;s challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Gorée, the island that today symbolizes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever seen &#8220;Chef&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/ever-seen-chef/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/ever-seen-chef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eddie_bbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef! is a British sitcom starring comedian Lenny Henry (and based on an idea he had) that aired as twenty episodes over three series from 1993 to 1996 on the BBC. The show was created and primarily written by Peter Tilbury and produced for the BBC by Henry&#8217;s production company Crucial Films. Henry starred as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have you seen &#8220;Black Joy&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/have-you-seen-black-joy/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/04/have-you-seen-black-joy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directed by Anthony Simmons and starring Norman Beaton (who later became known from the TV series &#8220;Desmond&#8217;s), &#8220;Black Joy&#8221; is adapted from Dark Days and Light Nights, a stage play by Jamal Ali. It&#8217;s the story of an immigrant country boy from Guyana who comes to Brixton, London and gets shown the streets on 70&#8242;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve McQueen&#8217;s &#8220;Hunger&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/steve-mcqueens-hunger/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/03/steve-mcqueens-hunger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUNGER is the stunningly assured debut feature from Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen. Winner of the 2008 Cannes Camera d&#8217;Or among other top international prizes, the film is a work of astonishing precision co-written by acclaimed Irish playwright Enda Walsh and starring Michael Fassbender (300, Tarantino&#8217;s upcoming INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) in an unflinchingly passionate turn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: FRIDAY!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-friday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A lot can go down between Thursday and Saturday&#8230;&#8221; When you&#8217;re spotlighting important Black contributions in film, it&#8217;s easy to lean towards the ultra-serious films and dramas, and look over the long history of influential comedy films. Since we&#8217;re on a bit of a 90&#8242;s kick this week, we can&#8217;t forget one of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Malcolm X</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-malcolm-x/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-malcolm-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early 1990s, &#8220;Marketing Black&#8221; was very important in America. The biggest brand in the world was a Black man&#8230;Michael Jordan. One important figure in the marketing of Black America was, without a doubt, Spike Lee. Spike had gone from indie filmmaker to voice of the people in the span of 5 films. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Drop Squad</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-drop-squad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Exidor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drop Squad is a 1994 comedy about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. The story follows as the group, led by Vondie Curtis-Hall and Ving Rhames kidnaps an advertising executive (Eric La Salle) who has been providing advertising programs that belittles blacks and women. One advertisement features Spike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Putney Swope</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-putney-swope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The changes I&#8217;m going to make will be minimal. I&#8217;m not gonna rock the boat. Rockin&#8217; the boat&#8217;s a drag. What you do is sink the boat! And there&#8217;s no sense sinkin&#8217; nothin&#8217; unless you can salvage with productive alternatives. And brothers, you can&#8217;t change nothin&#8217; with rhetoric and slogans. Because if a man&#8217;s really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Hollywood Shuffle</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-hollywood-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you were in film school or entering the entertainment industry in the late 80s or early 90s, you had a moment (or two) where you completely related to a scene in &#8220;Hollywood Shuffle&#8221;. The late 80s were time when we all learned that you could finance a film on credit cards, and Hollywood Shuffle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Basquiat</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-basquiat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of those strange films that makes the list even though it&#8217;s not exactly &#8220;Black Cinema&#8221;. Basquiat is a 1996 film directed by Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist/neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, born in Brooklyn, used his graffiti roots as a foundation to create collage-style paintings on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Love &amp; Basketball</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-love-basketball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sanaa Lathan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we sat down and discussed what film were the best romantic films for the series, one movie title kept coming up on everybody&#8217;s lists. Love &#038; Basketball, released in 2000, is a romantic dramatic picture, written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. This film stars Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan. It&#8217;s about two next-door neighbors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Daughters Of The Dust</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-daughters-of-the-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-daughters-of-the-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daughters of the Dust is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Julie Dash. It&#8217;s the story of three generations of Gullah women at the turn of the 20th century and focuses on the family&#8217;s migration from the Sea Islands to the American mainland. The film is told from the perspective of by an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Rosewood</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-rosewood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story based on an actual incident, an American tragedy that everyone involved tried to forget or deny&#8230; During the first week of January, 1923, Rosewood, a flourishing black town in central Florida, was burned to the ground by whites from the neighboring, less prosperous, town of Sumner. Fueled by a white woman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WIN tickets to see &#8216;Medicine For Melancholy&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/win-tickets-to-see-medicine-for-melancholy/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/win-tickets-to-see-medicine-for-melancholy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFC Films presents a new film by Barry Jenkins. MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY is a love story about a one-night stand told through two African-American twenty-something&#8217;s dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco &#8211; a city with the smallest black population of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Style Wars</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-style-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Style Wars is a documentary on early hip hop culture, made by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant in New York City in 1983. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, but all aspects of hip-hop culture are covered. The film was originally aired on PBS television in 1983, and was subsequently shown in several film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Shaft</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-shaft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lee_bbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 70s, when boys got together to play, you could hear the culture in the character selection. There were Superman and Batman kids, there were &#8220;Let&#8217;s play S.W.A.T.&#8221; kids, there were Six Million Dollar Man kids&#8230;and then there was that one kid who would say &#8220;I wanna be &#8220;Shaft&#8221;. Nobody really argued with that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: She&#8217;s Gotta Have It</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-shes-gotta-have-it/</link>
		<comments>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-shes-gotta-have-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the 1980&#8242;s, a bit of a Black arts renaissance took place. This time, though, the center wasn&#8217;t Harlem &#8212; it was Brooklyn. To this day, you can see the effects of the impact of this revolution. If you weren&#8217;t from Brooklyn in the late 80&#8242;s, for 88 minutes in 1986, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Life Support</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-life-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by a true story, LIFE SUPPORT uses a mix of actors and real people from the HIV/AIDS community to tell the story of an HIV-positive Brooklyn woman named Ana (Queen Latifah), who channels her energy and regret over past drug addiction into working for Life Support, an AIDS outreach group. Ana, who contracted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movies That Made Us: Cabin In The Sky</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/movies-that-made-us-cabin-in-the-sky/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Movies That Made Us&#8221; is a series that spotlights important moments and contributions in Black cinema. Today&#8217;s film is &#8220;Cabin In the Sky&#8221;, an American Broadway musical which opened in 1940. In 1943, MGM produced a movie adaptation of the play. The film version of Cabin in the Sky starred Ethel Waters as Petunia, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get OBSESSED with Beyoncé &amp; Idris!</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2009/02/get-obsessed-with-beyonce-idris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cutmaster3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Charles (Idris Elba), a successful asset manager who has just received a huge promotion, is blissfully happy in his career and in his marriage to the beautiful Sharon (Beyoncé Knowles). But when Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp worker, starts stalking Derek, all the things he’s worked so hard for are placed in jeopardy. Director: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Antonia</title>
		<link>http://theblackboxoffice.com/2008/11/antonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>blackboxoffice</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazilian director Tata Amaral&#8217;s &#8220;Antonia&#8221; is the story of four young Brazilian women, Preta, Barbarah, Mayah and Lena, old-time friends who live in a poor neighborhood of SÃo Paulo and decide to have their own hip-hop group, having to deal with the violence near their homes and the machismo of the musical business. But the [...]]]></description>
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