{"id":1422,"date":"2009-02-10T12:45:14","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:38:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:38:01","slug":"black-history-month-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1422","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month films (Wed.s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m just getting around to reading last week&#8217;s <em>Royal Purple<\/em> and I see that there is a film being shown every Wednesday for the next three weeks (it started Feb. 4) in honor of Black History Month. The movies start at 6:30 p.m. in the UC Summers Auditorium. Here&#8217;s the line-up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0104797\/\">Malcolm X<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feb. 11: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0463998\/\">Freedom Writers<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/calendar\/leadership\/2009\/02112009_Freedomwriters.php\">events calendar<\/a> says this one starts at 7 p.m., so I&#8217;m not sure about the time)<\/li>\n<li>Feb. 18: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0248667\/\">Ali<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feb. 25: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0113305\/\">Higher Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/malx.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm X video cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>If you missed <em>Malcolm X<\/em> (like I did), the University Library has it in VHS format (Browsing VHS, 2nd floor, PN1997 .M348 1993). Spike Lee directed and Denzel Washington starred in it, so you know you can&#8217;t go wrong. University Library also has the book on which the film is based, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=NlkifTXux_cC&amp;pgis=1\"><em>The autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E185.97 .L5 A3).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/freewrit.jpg\" alt=\"Freedom Writers book cover\" class=\"alignright\" \/>If you miss <em>Freedom Writers<\/em> you can get that from the University Library too (2nd-floor Browsing DVD, Feature Film, Fre). That&#8217;s based on the book <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=14tbTkQNAAAC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>The Freedom Writers diary: how a teacher and 150 teens used writing to change themselves and the world around them<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, HQ796 .F76355 2001).<\/p>\n<p>The other two films in the series are not part of UWW&#8217;s video collection, but may be available to UWW students and staff from other UW libraries by using the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&amp;PAGE=dbPage\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. Requested materials arrive in 2-4 weekdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m just getting around to reading last week&#8217;s Royal Purple and I see that there is a film being shown every Wednesday for the next three weeks (it started Feb. 4) in honor of Black History Month. The movies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/1422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1651,178,1672,1630,220,184],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-black-history-month","tag-books","tag-cinema","tag-films","tag-fun-stuff","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9686,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}