Q: What will I be doing this weekend?
A: While I would like the answer to be resting poolside at the The Setai, unfortunately the only water I'll see this weekend will be in a bathtub! Which is fine (me trying to convince myself that 30 degree weather is more enjoyable than 80 degree, sunny, beach weather). But it actually is fine because this Friday is the nationwide premier of Blood Done Sign My Name!
According to Apple, yes, Apple, not the NYT or Washington Post:
"Jeb Stuart’s BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME is an epic story of empowerment and the struggle for social justice based on the acclaimed book of the same name by prize-winning author and scholar Timothy Tyson. Part family drama and part history of the civil rights movement in America’s south, the film is set in Oxford, North Carolina in 1970 and recreates the circumstances surrounding the small-town murder of Henry “Dickie” Marrow, a 23 years-old black Vietnam veteran who was shot and beaten to death by one of Oxford’s prominent white businessmen and his two grown sons. In response to the crime, and the sham trail that followed, many young African American men took to the streets, engaging in riots and vandalism. However, schoolteacher and burgeoning activist Ben Chavis (who was also Marrow’s cousin), decided that the best way to protest the injustice was to organize a peaceful march on the state capitol. What began as a small group of outraged friends and relatives grew to a crowd of thousands over the three day, fifty-mile trek to Raleigh. Ten years old at the time, Tim Tyson watched as his father, pastor of the town’s all-white Methodist church, tried to get his congregation to accept the inevitability of integration."
I was raised in Oxford, and my Uncle Eddie is a character in the movie, so it's must see
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