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Read about movies and hear interviews from a different angle
JR Valrey aka The People's Minister of Information has been a print and broadcast journalist for 20 years and has worked for media outlets such as Youth Outlook, Youth Radio, KMEL, Prison Radio, KPFA, and KPOO. For the last 15 years, he has been the Associate Editor of the San Francisco Bay View Newspaper, the most radical and biggest Black newspaper in the Bay Area. He currently is also the executive producer of Block Report Radio and its online component BlockReportRadio.com which has over 2.5 million hits worldwide. Valrey is also the principle publicist for the San Francisco Black Film Festival and the Oakland International Film Festival. Check him out online at BlockReportRadio.com.
The Minister of Information, JR Valrey, takes a look at and asks the important questions of some his favorite, hand picked films from the 2015 San Francisco Black Film Festival. JR Valrey is a journalist for his own website BLOCK REPORT RADIO and the SF Bay View Newspaper.
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Charlie Walker speaks on his book & movie "America is Still the Place"
Hunter's Point legend Charlie Walker talks about his life, his book and film "America is Still the Place", and screening at the San Francsco Black Film Festival on... (((MORE)))
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Queen Njinga Mbandi of the Ndongo people is a legendary as well as charismatic figure in the pantheon of African world leaders and freedom fighters against colonialism. Having lived in the 17th century, she is one of few revolutionaries from this period whose name and legacy has stood the test of time. (((MORE)))
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One of the most provocative must-see films in the San Francisco Black Film Festival is the cinematic drama “Moses,†which is about the human sex trafficking of young African males, a topic rarely discussed. The movie starts out with Moses, who is a better than average soccer player in Nigeria. (((MORE)))
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Mac Dre's Mother Speaks
The Block Report talked to Mac Wanda, the mother of Mac Dre about his life, his career, and the new documentary "Mac Dre: Legend of the Bay", which will be premiering at the San... (((MORE)))
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One of the most anticipated documentaries playing in the San Francisco Black Film Festival this year is “Mac Dre: Legend of the Bay,†which is about the short and productive life of the legendary Vallejo Hip Hop pioneer. This documentary covers his young life, the birth of his career, as well as (((MORE)))
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In the winter of 1963, two children, Camelien, 10, and Lenais, 5, from Reunion Island are taken away from their mother as part of the resettlement policy of the French government. Instead of going to school as their mother was promised, Camelien must work as a laborer in an isolated farm. From 1963 to 1982, France tried to repopulate its rural areas with a policy of forced adoptions of 1,600 children from Reunion Island. (((MORE)))
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The realest state of affairs in this world is real estate, and the most important thing somebody can do on it is grow food. In the documentary “Farming a Legacy,†I learned that since the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the biggest fights that Blacks have had in this country was and is to own and retain farmland. (((MORE)))
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“Driving While Black†is one of the few comical films in the San Francisco Black Film Festival this year, yet its subject matter deals with a not-so-funny topic. What I liked most about this film is that is a satirical look at how police of all ethnicities treat young Black men. (((MORE)))
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This is one of my favorite films in the San Francisco Black Film Festival because the festival deals with “Black†in a Pan Africanist sense, and the Eritrean experience in the United States is not very well documented in film. It was refreshing to see a new story, instead of a recycled, refurbished plot. (((MORE)))
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Few musicians have had such an everlasting impression on the music of the 20th century internationally as the legendary Reggae and Dub producer and vocalist Lee “Scratch†Perry. Born in Jamaica as a contemporary of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Scratch has had an exciting life. (((MORE)))
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“In An Ideal World†is one of the most important documentary films in the San Francisco Black Film Festival this year considering that its subject is prisoners and over 1 million Black people and 2 million people in general are locked up in the bowels of this country’s concentration camps. Soledad Prison, where the documentary is set, is one of these concentration... (((MORE)))
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