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Van Peebles’s Harlem Street Look out, “Hair.” Peace and love (not war) may rule in Central Park at the Delacorte Theater, but they’re not the only free musical game in town. The pimps and whores and crooked cops of Melvin Van Peebles’s “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death” reign uptown in a lively Classical Theater of Harlem production at Marcus Garvey Park.

What’s Happenin’ in Marcus Garvey Park? Posted on July 29, 2008 by D. Bell Tuesday, July 29th, Friday, August 1st & Saturday, August 2nd at 8pm in Marcus Garvey Park: The Classical Theatre of Harlem is interpreting a huge Broadway hit: Ain’t Supposed To Die A Natural Death Peopled by

What’s Happenin’ in Marcus Garvey Park? Posted on July 29, 2008 by D. Bell Tuesday, July 29th, Friday, August 1st & Saturday, August 2nd at 8pm in Marcus Garvey Park: The Classical Theatre of Harlem is interpreting a huge Broadway hit: Ain’t Supposed To Die A Natural Death Peopled by

I Kiffe NY - French Urban Cultures Festival French Culture Tue, 07/29/2008 - 12:10 France's banlieues are on the move… to New York! The Cultural Services of the French Embassy are proud to present I Kiffe NY, French Urban Cultures Festival, from October 7 to October 28.

Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death Posted on July 23, 2008 by D. Bell Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, a totally unique fiction form, is a gutsy, lusty politically-outspoken narrative of African American street life that explores inner-city agony.

Baadasssss: Melvin van Peebles sues ASCAP for $20 million… According to Variety's blog The Set List, Blaxploitation renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles (TMT Feature) recently filed a $20 million lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court against ASCAP, a major organization that collects Melvin Van...

I've always known he was a rennaisance man, but I don't think I've ever heard any of his music, other than what he created for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and I didn't particularly care for any of it.

SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (1971) & BAADASSSSS! (2003) In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles, sick of Hollywood’s portrayal of African Americans, risked everything to present his own version of the black experience where, according to his own manifesto for the project, “niggers could

The LA film festival is more or less half way through now, and has so far been entirely satisfying in its range of movies, from great to sub-par, or unexpectedly good to unexpectedly poor. One of the latter was the much-touted Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine), the new film from Nicolas Klotz

Melvin Van Peebles - Tribeca Film Festival 2008 - All Access Juror - Tribeca Film Festival 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtYgquqtepE