Bounce TV, the nation’s first broadcast network for African-Americans, honors Black History Month in February by showing some of what it calls “the greatest African-American stories, motion pictures and performances of all-time.” This Sunday night, Feb. 8, at 9 p.m, Bounce TV will air, The Color Purple. Directed by Steven Spielberg from the Pulitzer Prize-winning […]
Bounce TV, the nation’s first broadcast network for African-Americans, honors Black History Month in February by showing some of what it calls “the greatest African-American stories, motion pictures and performances of all-time.”
This Sunday night, Feb. 8, at 9 p.m, Bounce TV will air, The Color Purple. Directed by Steven Spielberg from the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Alice Walker, The Color Purple won multiple Academy Awards when it came out in 1985.
Also on Bounce TV later that Sunday night or early Monday morning at 12:30 a.m. is the true story, Ghosts of Mississippi, about the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers in the driveway of his home. Evers was a civil rights activist involved in ending segregation at the University of Mississippi. The Rob Reiner film stars James Woods, Alec Baldwin, and Whoopi Goldberg in the struggle to bring the murderer to justice.
A movie that’s unfortunately not being shown as part of Bounce TV’s Black History Month, but is one of my favorite movies and definitely worth watching anytime is Mississippi Burning, the 1988 film directed by Alan Parker.
In 1964 three young men disappeared from the town of Philadelphia, Miss. The men, two white and one black, were found 44 days later buried in an earthen dam. The men, who were trying to register African Americans to vote, had been abducted, shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan, the local county sheriff’s office and police from that city.
Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe burn up the screen as two FBI agents on opposite sides of due process who track down the murderers. This is the only movie I watch from beginning to end every time it comes on TV.
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