Urban Dictionary

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Oddball Films and guest curator Christine Kwon present Urban Dictionary: That Black and Yellow Ish. Some call it soul, others swagger—whatever it was, urban life of the 60s and 70s produced some of the most iconic images, trends, and leaders of that generation. Urban Dictionary kicks off with trailers ranging from Diana Ross’s electrifying Mahogany to Sidney Poitier’s Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, then into the rare short film Bessie Smith: St Louis Blues with the iconic Blues singer fighting for her good-for-nothing man. A travelogue segment on San Francisco’s Chinatown in Routes of American Airlines: Chinatown opens a time capsule into the Bay’s Asian American communities, and plays in direct opposition to Kwan Chung Yen, a rare home-movie type documentary that provides a fascinating look at drug use in young Asian Americans. This verite document is followed by Why People Smoke, a hilarious and confounding cartoon (think School House Rock), about stupid people who smoke, then rounds out with Of Black America: Body and Soul, Part II, in which Ray Charles narrates the vital role music played in his Southern youth, and raw news footage of Black Panthers: Liberation School, featuring compelling footage of Angela Davis (subject of an upcoming doc Angela Davis: Free All Political Prisoners, with footage provided by Oddball) and the Black Panther Party protesting the killing of Bobby Hutton, to give a glimpse into the powerful African American and Asian American cultural revolutions of that time.

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