After the requisite amount of Taylor Swift & Super Bowl talk, we kick off our Black History Month episodes! Indy recounts some of his favorite novels from the Harlem Renaissance, from authors like Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, & others, Samantha recommends Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming, and we preview the 1967 classic In The Heat Of The Night!
I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha & Indy Randhawa
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke. The movement also included the new African American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by a renewed militancy in the general struggle for civil rights, combined with the Great Migration of African American workers fleeing the racist conditions of the Jim Crow Deep South, as Harlem was the final destination of the largest number of those who migrated north.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017, being married to former president Barack Obama.
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. The film was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name.
Released by United Artists in August 1967, the film was a widespread critical and commercial success. At the 40th Academy Awards the film was nominated for seven Oscars, winning five including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Rod Steiger. Quincy Jones' score, featuring a title song performed by Ray Charles, was nominated for a Grammy Award. The success of the film spawned two film sequels featuring Poitier, and a television series of the same name, which aired from 1988 to 1995.
In The Heat Of The Night Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15DhX_ltls&ab_channel=MGM
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166 Mulatu Astatke, With You All The Way, & Citizen Kane Preview
165 Step Up: Year of the Dance (Step Up China, 2019)
164 Why Women Kill, 10 Year Old Indy’s Favourite Books, & Step Up: Year of the Dance Preview
163 Ed Wood (1994)
162 Old Enough!, Pieces of Her, & Ed Wood Preview
161 Step Up: All In (2014)
160 Royal Witches, The Kids In The Hall, & Step Up All In Preview
159 The Iron Giant (1999)
158 2022 YRCA Books, Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, & The Iron Giant Preview
157 Step Up Revolution (2012)
156 The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan, Aggretsuko, & Step Up Revolution Preview
155 The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
154 Astronomy, Swan Dive by Georgina Pazcoguin, & The Day The Earth Stood Still Preview
153 Step Up 3D (2010)
152 After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Novels of Kurt Vonnegut Pt 3 (1985-1997), & Step Up 3D Preview
151 The 3rd Annual Awards Show Spectacular!
150 Kiki’s Delivery Service (魔女の宅急便, 1989)
149 Indy’s Top 5 Talking Black Cats, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, & Kiki’s Delivery Service Preview
148 Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)
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