The Grooved Pavement

02/16/2024

02/06/2024

Thank you all who showed up at the first event, The Grooved Pavement Live Podcast. We appreciate you all and those who logged in.

The movies (clips) we showed in order:

The Birth of A Nation (1915)
Slaves (1969)
Imitation of Life (1959)
I Pass For White (1960)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (1967)

Stay tuned. Next week's going to be a bit groovy. You gonna dig it! 💪🏾

02/06/2024

Thank you all who showed up at the first event, The Grooved Pavement Live Podcast. We appreciate you all and those who logged in.

The topics we touched on were about how the term Black History Month started - Dr. Carter G. Woodson, and the fact it originally was to be a week.

A brief overview of HBCU’s (Historical Black Colleges and Universities).

Early racism and colorism in media.

Slavery, segregation, and race relations.

The movies (clips) we showed in order:

The Birth of A Nation (1915)
Slaves (1969)
Imitation of Life (1959)
I Pass For White (1960)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? (1967)

Stay tuned. Next week's going to be a bit groovy. You gonna dig it! 💪🏾

02/04/2024

Back on it...

02/06/2023

Why did cotton come to Harlem?

Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Cotton Comes To Harlem. Directed by the great Ossie Davis, starring Gilbert Godfrey and Raymond St. Jac...

02/06/2023

Have y'all jive turkeys checked out our latest episode on Cotton Comes To Harlem? If you didn't, you can dig it now!

Shawn Strong and Decarius McClearn discuss and review Cotton Comes To Harlem. Directed by the great Ossie Davis, starring Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin' Ed Johnson as two Harlem cops investigate a rob...

02/03/2023

A whole con-man!!

02/02/2023

Peace and blessings, good folks. Help us win some loot so we can do more content fo ya funky asses! Please vote and share if you dig us and want mo!! We appreciate y'all. Right on!!

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02/02/2023

Guess this movie... Win a 2-piece from Crown Fried Chicken.

02/01/2023

A new episode of The Grooved Pavement is coming!! Decarius McClearn

01/10/2023

New episodes coming Feb 2023! ✊🏾💪🏾🙏🏾

10/16/2022

We need to get back to this!

10/16/2021

Check us out with C Williams of OurStory Bookstore talking with Black men about the Blaxploitation era of the late 60's and 70's.

10/15/2021

Tomorrow on IG Live your brothers will be chopping it up about the blaxploitation era at 11am.! Follow Tanesha Williams on IG .

10/15/2021

Let's talk about it. Join the discussion. Tomorrow Oct. 16, 11 am

08/16/2021

There are various ways of getting works comp... aka "hurt" on the job! Don't learn from Sweetback.

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08/13/2021

Episode 9 is out now! We are talking Sweetback! Watch the full episode on YouTube or listen on all audio platforms! Like the episode. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Comment on the video. We would love to hear from you!

08/12/2021

We have Episode 9, up and running. We're talking about "Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song," a 1971 blaxploitation flick all done by Mr. Melvin Van Peebles himself... And I mean, HIMSELF!! ... Check out our link in bio for all the platforms in video and audio formats. Ya dig!! ✊🏾......