dwayne mcduffie appreciation post

Actor Laz Alonso questions why the U.S. citizenship test doesn’t include the civil rights movement & says immigrants wouldn’t have rights in the United States if not for African Americans’ sacrifices and struggles during the civil rights movement. 🎥 On That Note Podcast/Youtube

Marlon Wayans remembers Darren Aronofsky telling him not to have sex during "Requiem for a Dream" filming: “Darren is crazy. He asked, ‘What are the three things you love most?’ I said, ‘I love chocolate, sex and drinking.’ He said, ‘Great. So then here’s what I want you to do: I don’t want you to have sex or masturbate, I don’t want you to eat sugar and you cannot drink.’ It was for the three weeks before filming that he called ‘three weeks of wrath,’ and he said, ‘I want you to do without so you know what it feels like when you’re fiending for something, because you guys are junkies.’ And I said, ‘Bet.’” wp.me/pc8uak-1lHlIe

A reminder that Ruby Bridges is still alive today & is literally on Instagram... this wasn't very long ago...

In 1960 Louisiana, segregationists harassed 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, even making a doll of her placed in a coffin, because she attended an all-white school.