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I remember this flick, and it is hard to image it is 40 years old. The first time I went to Chicago I had to visit the Cabrini-Green housing projects. I enjoyed the film because it was shot in the projects. Like Claudine that came before it, which was filmed in Harlem, it showed a side of life that really was not shown in the movies before that time. I grew up in the projects. Mine were taller, more like Robert Taylor houses on Chicago's south side. The projects I grew up in are still standing. Some of the families have been there for generations. Like the guy in the interview above says we had fun growing up --despite the crime, violence, drugs and poverty. In the middle of this photo is an elevated train which I hates because if you are on the phone or watching TV you simply can't hear until the train goes by. The read arrow shows my window. The train is Park Avenue. Yes "the" park avenue. Just one mile south a 20 minute walk is some of the most expensive real estate in the country. We used to call that real "white boy" terrority. Some of the more brazen thugs from my neighborhood would go down there to rob the kids. Many years later when I had kids of my own, I sent them to school in "white boy territory," and I had occasion to visit some of the homes of their classmates. I'm glad I did not do this when I was a kid. I'm not sure I how I would have handled the disparity...

Wait, what? I have a another live one @Kalexander2, the bet is 45 will not finish the year (December 31st 2018) as president. Shoot the midterms are in November -- I'll give you until the end of the year. Bet? I may need to find a way to hold these bets in escrow. @Delano, to be crystal; we are not talking about some Clinton type impeachment (which won't happen either). We are talking about 45 being out of office and Pence is now president before end end of the year, right?

@Kalexander2, the photo is actually of the James Weldon Johnson Housing Projects in Harlem in New York City 🙂 (or simply "Johnson," as we used to call the place) Chicago and NY have a lot of similarities, so I could see why the image may be confusing. Plus Johnson is much older than Taylor or Cabrini, it was built in the 40's. The projects are, really, the only affordable options available. which is why many residents stay for generations. They are also afraid the city is trying to get rid of they, but not maintaining the apartments very well.

EIN, you know thats is right. If it were not for the current tax law AALBC.com would not exist -- full stop. So a feminist is "...a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes." Then I'm a feminist, but it just seems like anyone who believes this is just a fair human being. I don't believe men are women are the same as in interchangeable. I believe that men and women have many, often profound, differences. Differences that should be acknowledged and not ignored as if they don't matter. Am I still a feminist with this belief system?

@Delano, First I believe it's important to define feminism before we can determine who is a feminist and who isn't. In Beyonce's last performance (Coachella) she defined what feminism means to her via soundbite from Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk (“a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes”) . For the record, I subscribe to that definition of feminism too. I believe feminism is about equality wherever law governs a country. To date we still haven't had Equal Rights Amendment ratified in the U.S. constitution. We've been fighting for this inclusion since 1923 - this year the 37th state has ratified the amendment. One more to go or I think we have to start all over again. Bell Hooks is on some other stuff , not quite sure what? but I appreciate her right to have her view too. Sometimes, I think she just wants to eradicate men altogether... As far as Beyonce' being a corporation I agree. She is. Who wouldn't want to be in this day and age lol... Especially with the new tax reform legislation. I think most of us better get a EIN and have our employers sign over checks to our corporation. And you aren't that far behind the curve, BeyGood is her foundation and through it she collects donations and also gives money here and abroad.