Wouldn't it be cool if there was a movie channel dedicated to VINTAGE black movies like Cabin in the Sky?
TCM shows old classics...In fact, a few months ago they aired a BUNCH of really OLD black movies I'd never heard of, much less had seen....Especially the ones with Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington etc...What had me captivated was the jazz music and the dancing I saw ....Early Soul Train perhaps?
Didja see the one about the Black preacher who was telling a bunch of kids the story of Jesus? What was the name of that one again? And as much as some of us loathe those Shirley Temple-movies-with-slaves, you gotta admit the singing was splendid! The kids who sang "Dinah" on the Little Rascals were called "The Cabin Kids", I found out....and didja know that Lincoln Perry started the first Black Actor's school?
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