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1950 Peanuts debuted - notice how the characters look different. One of the problems today is when an artist starts a comic, people want the character to be in a "final" state but most toons, the characters changed over time. Look at the smurfs, originally in the Johann and Peewee strip but then flushed out. Look at charlie brown originally? I see too many artists who are unwilling to submit work with the idea that it can change. It doesn't have to be finalized. I think great lessons are in this. https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/October_1950_comic_strips October 2nd 1950 (The first ever Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown, Patty and Shermy appear. Patty would not be named until the end of the month and Shermy would not be named until December 18, 1950. The gag in this strip is recycled from the Li'l Folks strip from May 29, 1949. This strip is adapted in Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown) 3rd (Patty, having her first speaking role, is reciting the traditional nursery rhyme "What Are Little Boys Made Of?" Schulz had previously referenced the rhyme in the Li'l Folks comic strip from October 17, 1948. This is also the first time Shermy is absent) 4th (The first appearance of Snoopy, the first wordless comic and the first time Charlie Brown is absent) 5th (This is the first time two characters speak in a full sentence) 6th (Patty’s 5th appearance in a row) 7th (The first time Charlie Brown speaks and the first time Patty is absent) 9th (The first time Shermy shows any affection towards Patty) 10th (The first interaction between Charlie Brown and Snoopy)

15 underrated 1970s sci fi films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_mgmy0dN0 1974 the conversation One of Gene Hackman's greatest roles. When you think about a film like the matrix, what makes the conversation so much more frightening is that coppola doesn't involve the fantastical elements and leaves it all into humanity. Hackman's character Karl is Neo but absent anywhere to go or any abilities to gain while in a system only going to get stronger. The fact that hackman later played in enemy of the state about the same topic and received much better acclaim shows you how good the conversation is. One thing is the end of the conversation , when hackman's surveillance turns out to be erroneous and he is in shock to a friend but then when he picks up a phone his watchers profess he is being watched and his watchers admit to him it is a holistic surveillance. The failure of the individual to compete next to the state in the business of surveillance is the closing theme of the story. Their is also a movie with Sandra Bullock around identity control, which is similar to Hackman's old film and similarly didn't get the accolades for the raw approach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huYQ7x0v9E8 1970 colossus, the forbin project James Hong citing. The key is access. Funny how Wargames and the Terminator both have as their main premise computers being given access to nuclear arsenals, cause humans don't trust humans or humans don't act quick enough on command. But there lies the true story for me. It is the fact that in colossus/wargames/the terminator a computer program is given access to what it shouldn't. The enemy isn't the computer programs abilities. The enemy is the human hubris that gives computer's the access to power the computer should not have. https://vimeo.com/584593423?fl=pl&fe=vl 1972 Silent Running And the role of space exploration in preserving the earth. The myth is that once humanity figures out how to go outside earth and extract everything or use everything earth can be a paradise forgetting the inefficient human systems will get in the way. https://ok.ru/video/5844487178779 1973 Soylent Green I concur about resource based social structures. The fact that soylent green has no resistance movements is underrated. The percent of people who have knowledge is being reduced to a level where not enough people know anything to have movements. Most of the people with knowledge are old. And expensive computer systems are not around either. Computer games for the rich. Computer systems in manufacturing, developing soylent green exist but they are unable to do anything or interfere with anything of a grand design, because they are designed well. https://archive.org/details/soylent-green-1973_20210310 1975 Rollerball The role of sport in modernity. The key is the efficiency of human systems and how sport is one of the last and maybe only activity human beings enjoy that requires humans. humans enjoy watching humans fight to the death. In rollerball the AI is a computer trapped in a room with data. It isn't connected to nuclear weapons and in rollerball it seems people don't carry around computer systems of a certain level of advanced interaction. And yet, the corporations have specific machines for surveillance and more. The problem is of ideas. It isn't that humanity hasn't found a balance, it is that the balance through technology demands total control or adherence to a system of life. 1975 Death Race 2000 This is reality television's future. From "Big Brother" to "Naked and Afraid" to "Jackass the movie" to "Real Housewives" to "The Kardashian clan" Reality TV which is the most scripted, is designed to give viewers the distant pleasures of viewing, safe in that they are never hurt while active in that they participate in the action sequence. Death Race like Roller ball is a world where the system of business hasn't made poverty, but the human need to have more has been sated by an athletic competition designed to allow the closest to complete depravity. https://youtu.be/-1SEgbolSF4?si=Y6oJKaLqAjXYweP3 1975 the stepford wives As I typed, robotic bodies while electronic simulation systems are ever nearer. No laws exist to even remotely guide humans, especially males from desiring pseudo female slaves and the film correctly shows what happens to real women in a disadvantaged situation when men can replace them with someone perfect to their intentions. Not as nature intended. I argue the remake with the bioelectrical controlling chip misses the brutality of the original film. In the remake the women can be saved with a change in the circuit but in the original film, the women once truly replaced are killed to make way for the robotic woman. https://youtu.be/UiqinUpRQgU?si=63Pxk3Sv4AA1czfn 1973 Westworld Like Death race or Rollerball, Westworld is a world where poverty isn't the problem but entertainment gives humans the ability to not get involved in questioning the larger system. How is wealth distributed. As in rollerball or death race, we don't see what goes on in the poorer regions in humanity, which is the frightening reality of westworld, a playground for the haves while no consideration to the have nots who are clearly blockaded from all thought or media exposure. https://youtu.be/PzlbMrpF7qA?si=RyFzDj0SJhkLjTtv 1978 The boys from Brazil Genetic engineering requires environmental controls and to what lengths can the wealthy use to dictate who is born , what traits survive. What damage can be done to humanity by humanity when genetic engineering becomes feasible to humans most fantastical desires. https://youtu.be/3UKWdOEEFMs?si=hnNQLTWduVeQ-kmT 1978 Coma Organ harvesting is real. This is known in prisons or in poor countries. Coma shows this. The tragedy is how people don't want to face this, like soylent green. What if you need a human being to help you live, not to feed. The desperation to live by the rich has no bounds. Vampires. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9m08cm 1976 Network Mad as hell. Audience likes dictate over quality. It isn't about guiding to betterment but selling any subject or content to profit. Nothing is sacred when anything can be sold. https://youtu.be/A64rR5Dp07s?si=lHAKbcO42cgV4E4y https://youtu.be/_RujOFCHsxo?si=Tom5kBIplsPI0cbF 1977 Capricorn One The key is providing an illusion is more important than the truth. Like Network media dictates events and so controlling media is ever more important. Such that the efficiency of the system will slowly degrade to a point where no one will be ready. https://youtu.be/fMJwIeXYE0g?si=-FZ_4QLDWmV9HZsc 1974 Dark Star The corporatization of space travel. Will be a true wild west of the future. Not the myth of cowboys vs Indians, but the reality of people fighting each other , surviving the elements , while either are paving the way for the rich to remove both of them once the moon/mars or other outer areas are settled, just like the west. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8tb80s 1976 Logan's Run This is a dysfunctional plan of human preservation. Humanity outside the dome is dying, while humanity in the dome is in a loop. But the dome is dying. At some point no humanity will exist outside the dome and the loop inside the dome will die out in ignorance and impotency. In the original book, the rival to Logan 5 is a very old man kept young by cosmetic surgeries, who takes logan and "wife" to a ship where humanity actually exists off earth. Thus, Logan's run is really a test in the book to see who is truly ready to be free. https://ok.ru/video/1820870576820 1977 The Island Dr. Moreau Dr Moreau himself , a scientist who has placed himself far from human communities, while he is trying to do better than nature, with no thought to the community he creates. A lone human enters his private space and automatically creates chaos. Dr Moreau at heart wants to make a super race, a perfect race, as if anything made by humans can be perfect. Dr Moreau made his own tomb on an island nailed by the bodies of his inventions and didn't realize it was an inevitable failure that one drop of external human input destroyed. https://ok.ru/video/250508675650 IN AMENDMENT 15 banned hollywood films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2Qn7G41xo Freaks 1932 It is a good film. Yes, it is insulting to midgets dwarves or various natural humans who do not have a common form. Yes, it is a revenge film. But what is wrong in any of it? The truth is, many humans do treat other humans as said midgets or others were treated in the film. Said treatment was and is not a lie. so, again, it is insensitive, but it isn't a lie and I find greater insult in the need for people to not see the truth in their negative actions. And also the truth in warranted revenge. Revenge is negative, but it is not eternally unwarranted. Sometimes revenge is earned by the cruelty of those who are revenged upon, ala white Europeans have earned revenge by indigenous peoples of the Americas, the first peoples often called native americans. The funny thing about freaks is, in film, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein whom in literature is of a beautiful human form, is depicted as a "freak" while the creatures creator Frankenstein, in literature a obsessive infatuated egoist, is treated as a scientist of good will who made a mistake. https://archive.org/details/freaks-1932-colorized-movie-720p-hd Island of Lost Souls 1932 This film treats Moreau correctly. Moreau is a man of knowledge who has found him a place on earth where he can become god with his intellect. And of course, as moreau is only human the inevitable fall from his attempt at godhood occurs. Again, the white audience of that time, which accepted, the annihilation of black towns and experimenting on black people, didn't like to see its actions. Denial. why should films support denial ? People in modernity say they want to escape when they watch films. but that isn't my desire when i see a film. I like my life, i am merely peering into a world, I don't want to escape into it. The audience has been trained to want to escape because of the lies , the banning of films like island of lost souls supports. The Sign of the Cross 1932 Films about history are always in the situation of the sign of the cross. I grew up in a home where history was taught with one tenet in mind, truth, not desire or want or convenience or ease. Truth. when some or many black people today suggest they don't want to see slavery to whites in a film, what are they really saying? they can't stomach the truth? or worse, they rather ignore or blockade the truth of an unquestioned majority of black people, ninety nine percent, for the truth of an unquestioned minority of black people, the one percent of black people living giddy or happy in some varying integration with whites. why? What pains black people today in the truth of the past? IS it that black people today know that while they live in the light of what the old minority wanted, they live in a way the old majority would had attacked, spit on, burned with all their souls. When any populace in humanity can't face the violence from their forebears or the misery their forebears lived, they are weak. https://ok.ru/video/746986867202 Scarface 1932 Still the best scarface for me. His sister in this film is completely brilliant. The most potent thing about scarface 1932 in comparison to the al pacino scarface is the historical honesty. Miami in the 1970s was never what scarface presented, but the mob violence in new York city or Chicago was what Muni's scarface displayed correctly. People in New York City talk about gang violence as if today is some grandiose, the greatest era of gang violence new York city had was mostly white Italian/irish/jewish and totally above control. But people from whites to non whites suggest modernity is some parallel example. It is a lie. I notice no one has ever showed the two scarfaces back to back , at least in recent memory https://archive.org/details/scarface-1932_202109 Ecstacy 1933 I never saw this one, but a young hedy lamar. Prelolita lolita:) The lolita book is 1955 and the lolita film 1962 by stanley Kubrick are decades after estacy. https://ok.ru/video/3554222213830 The Story of Temple Drake 1933 From Faulkner sanctuary, i never saw this one. This is the film that was used in the legal system for the censors. I need to view it. Babyface 1933 Barbara Stanwyck can act. But beyond that, Babyface is again, truth. In modernity the real housewives show is a set of babyfaces? Bill gates and Jeff Bezos wives are babyfaces. Women use the skill in the bed chamber and in intimacy with men to get men to give to them and hope on a better ride if feasible. This is intimacy as a job, which is very common today. Babyface was at a time when women didn't have the opportunities today, to own a bank account or a house or even vote in a lot of scenarios. https://ok.ru/video/283708426915 Tarzan and his mate 1934 his mate:) for me, Tarzan which was written as a mythos in literature for white European peoples enjoyment and ego against the black African or others in general, merely continued its literary role in film. why ban it? Reefer madness 1936 This movie is a lovely truth on how nazi Germany isn't the only country that made propaganda, film for quick consumption while little thought Marijuana 1936 Reefer madness part 2 The Outlaw 1943 This is one of the films targeted by the code, and the director responded by buying into the media hype making it more scandalous than it was. The problem with self righteousness in any art field is, it is never warranted. https://youtu.be/I7T0tfieOf0?si=ykqFAeKRqa4my-Zu Mom and Dad 1945 Nice idea, separate showing for men and women. That is ahead of the curve, still today , making variants of films for genders is not done or embraced. but i think it can be functional. Song of the South 1946 haha!:) zipity do daa, ziptity yeah! really... ah boy, where do I begin. I think Disney should show song of the south before black panther all the time. It shows how film firms work. The Song of the south was to cater to the majority ticket buying audience which was mostly white and infatuated with happy negroes as underlings. Black Panther was to cater to a global audience where black ticket buyers have the money to carry a film on its own while non black ticket buyers are willing to pay to see a ninety nine percent black cast film. The key is who can buy tickets not respect or truth. Never forget song of the south was a huge money maker for disney Lost Boundaries 1949 After 1934 Imitation of life with real life yella or mulatta, who called herself black, Fredi Washington, and before Human stain 2003 or Free State of Jones 2016 or Passing 2021 there was Lost Boundaries. The funny thing about passing is how many whites were and still are fearful of the claim against black ancestry. White people have killed against that claim. video https://youtu.be/z26VL_0EQks?si=tM7ud-X_3ZQ9ffwq [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Boundaries ] The Moon is Blue 1943 Otto Primenger was great by putting the film forward absent the production code's judgement. https://archive.org/details/MoonIsBlue 1932 was a great year, the last of top down independent cinema in the usa. more 1970s films https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2760&type=status

KWL Live Q&A: The Writer’s Toolbox with Becca Puglisi https://www.kobo.com/kobo-writing-life/blog/kwl-live-q-a-the-writers-toolbox-with-becca-puglisi youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnOemMdLEGI 12:17 plan will put alot of work if you don't then you will write and the editing. 12:19 What are your thoughts to a prime antagonist who isn't the most powerful and is a subject to another whomthey can't defeat? I concur, the writer for the anime "black clover" said he developed all the characters 12:21 You have to make sure the protagonist can overcome 12:30 show outward clues for emotions 12:34 emotional wound thesaurus, is a primer on character, explores how a character will develop habits/biases from fear of something not recurring again 12:40 for a character, each book in a series should have a different arc. focus on one problem per book 12:44 most important marketing tactic? she does the financing her friend does the marketing. Know how to find your audience? and then be true to what your audience wants? 12:48 she compartmentalizes, she works when kids are at school, she is with family when kids are home. safeguard writing time it helps that she works with her friend angela, angela lives in Canada, she in florida but it helps having someone who gets it, family loves you but they usually don't get it. 12:54 what do you wish you knew when you started? I wish i knew how long it will take to become financially viable it takes 10,000 hours to master anything 12:59 where can we find you https://writershelpingwriters.net/ https://onestopforwriters.com/

Assata Shakur spirit flew 09/26 in the year 2025 correction she was born July 16, 1947, so she was 78. from Essence Magazine We are saddened to report that Assata Shakur, revolutionary, activist, and author, has passed away. Born JoAnne Chesimard, she rose as a leading member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, fighting for justice and freedom. A political exile in Cuba since 1984, her life embodied resistance, resilience, and the unyielding pursuit of liberation. Her legacy lives on in the generations she inspired to stand tall in the face of oppression. The best way to honor here is with a quote we all should by: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Rest in power, Assata. https://www.essence.com/cuba-says-returning-assata-shakur-us-off-the-table/ Cuba Says Returning Assata Shakur to U.S. Is 'Off the Table' Assata Shakur has been living in Cuba since 1977, when she escaped imprisonment after she was convicted of killing a U.S. state trooper By Taylor Lewis · Updated October 27, 2020 Despite improved relations between the United States and Cuba, Cuban officials have no plans to turn American fugitive Assata Shakur over to the U.S. Shakur, the first woman to be placed on the FBI’s most wanted list, has been at large since 1977, four years after she was arrested on charges of killing a New Jersey State Trooper. However, many believe that Shakur, who had strong affiliations with the Black Panther Party, was framed by COINTELPRO, an anti-liberation government organization. After the shooting, her fingerprints were never found on the gun, and there was no trace of gunpowder on her hands. With the help of the Black Panthers, Shakur escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where she has been living freely ever since. Cuba officially granted her political asylum in 1984, though the United States is determined to see her back on American soil, issuing multiple warrants for her arrest. President Obama announced in December that the two countries have restored relations, even releasing political prisoners from both sides. But, the chances that Cuba will agree to turn over Shakur are slim. Earlier this week, Gustavo Machin, deputy director for American affairs at the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Yahoo! News, “I can say it is off the table. There are very serious doubts about that case. We consider that a politically motivated case against that lady.” The U.S. has not responded to Machin’s statement. https://www.essence.com/assata-shakur-facts-call-return-from-cuba/ 8 Things to Know About Assata Shakur and the Calls to Bring Her Back from Cuba By Paula Rogo · Updated October 26, 2020 Every few years, it’s not uncommon to see Assata Shakur’s name back in the news headlines. Shakur is a revolutionary Black icon, whose legend has evolved into making her a patron saint of Black rebellion in the last half-century. The Queens, N.Y, native has been living in Cuba for over 30 years, after having escaped from the prison where she was serving a sentence for allegedly killing a New Jersey state trooper in 1973. 5399089366001 In 2017, President Trump announced that the US would impose new limits on US travelers to Cuba, adding that the US would consider lifting those and other restrictions only after certain changes were made — including returning American fugitives like Shakur. “The harboring of criminals and fugitives will end,” Trump said to Cuba. “You have no choice. It will end.” Cuba pushed back, refusing to hand her over, and adding another chapter to Shakur’s revolutionary life. The island has long been a haven for African-Americans who’ve committed “political crimes” or domestic “terrorism” (In the 1960s, Black Panthers such as Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton and Raymond Johnson all spent time in Cuba). A mystic lore now surrounds Shakur, both in her four-decade evasion of law enforcement — she was the first woman to ever make the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list — as well as her proximity to hip-hop royalty — she is step-aunt and godmother to the late Tupac Shakur. Here are eight things to know about her: 1. What’s in a Name? Shakur was born Joanne Deborah Chesimard, in Jamaica, Queens. She changed her name to Assata Shakur in 1971. “The name JoAnne began to irk my nerves,” she writes in her autobiography. “I had changed a lot and moved to a different beat. I didn’t feel like no JoAnne, or no Negro, or no Amerikan. I felt like an African woman. My mind, heart, and soul had gone back to Africa but my name was still stranded in Europe somewhere.” 2. The Revolution Article continues after video. Shakur joined the Black Panthers in the late 1960s while in her 20s, but eventually became disillusioned with the direction of the organization and left. She then became a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), another militant Black organization that believed in open resistance. 3. Her Alleged Crimes On May 2, 1973, Shakur and two members of the BLA were pulled over by state troopers in New Jersey. State Trooper Werner Foerster and one BLA member were killed. While police maintain that Shakur is responsible in Foerster’s death, she has consistently denied the accusation. In 1977, Shakur was convicted on one murder charge and six assault charges and sentenced to life in prison. But there is much evidence to suggest the trial was not fair; her lawyer called the trial “a legal lynching and a kangaroo court.” She escaped in 1979 with the assistance of BLA members posing as visitors to the prison. 4. Fidel Steps In Shakur was granted asylum by Fidel Castro in 1984. 5. FBI’s Most Wanted In May 2013, the 40th anniversary of her arrest, she became the first woman ever to be named on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. There is a $2 million federal and state reward for her arrest. 6. Extradition Over the years, politicians have called for her extradition from Cuba, including Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, and most recently President Trump. 7. ‘She Is Innocent’ Many prominent Black thinkers and leaders have also maintained her innocence. Angela Davis, for example, has said that Shakur is a little threat to the U.S. government: “Assata is not a threat. She is innocent,” she has said. “People really don’t know the details and are not aware of the extent to which [Shakur] was targeted by the FBI and the COINTEL programme.” 8. Hip-Hop Loves Her Shakur is an icon within hip-hop lore, having been cited in songs like Public Enemy’s “Rebel Without A Pause” to Common’s “A Song for Assata.” Being the godmother and step-aunt to Tupac Shakur also adds to her intrigue. from NewsOne Activist, revolutionary, Black Panther Party leader and member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), Assata Olugbala Shakur, has died at age 78, according to her daughter, Kakuya Shakur, meaning the ancestors have gained a fierce warrior in the fight against white supremacy. May she rest in power. https://newsone.com/6489574/revolutionary-fighter-for-black-liberation-assata-shakur-dies-at-78/ Revolutionary Fighter For Black Liberation Assata Shakur Dies At 78 Black Liberation Party member Assata Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, has died at the age of 78, according to family members. Source: Delphine Fawandu / Delphine Fawandu Activist, revolutionary, Black Panther Party leader and member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), Assata Olugbala Shakur, has died at age 78, according to her daughter, Kakuya Shakur, meaning the ancestors have gained a fierce warrior in the fight against white supremacy. Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16, 1947, in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York, was the sister of fellow Black liberation movement icon Mutulu Shakur, who died in 2023 at 72, and the godmother and step-aunt of late legendary rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, whose mother, Afeni, was Mutulu’s wife. Assata represents one of the most iconic names associated with the Black Panthers and the fight to truly liberate Black people from white overseers. That is how Black American people see and celebrate her. For America, she’s a far more controversial figure, and to many, she’s a notorious criminal who broke out of prison and fled the country after murdering a police officer, an act that kept her on the FBI’s Most Wanted List and New Jersey’s Most Wanted List until her dying day. According to EBSCO Knowledge Advantage, she was the first woman to be placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. On May 2, 1973, Shakur and two other BLA members were pulled over on the New Jersey Turnpike by State Trooper Werner Foerster and another highway officer. A confrontation occurred between the officers and Shakur’s group, which resulted in a shootout that left Forrester and another individual dead. In 2019, FBI’s Special Agent in Charge Gregory Ehrie characterized the shooting as “a heinous execution of a law enforcement officer, cut and dry.” “This is without dispute,” Ehrrie continued. Oh, but this certainly has been disputed. In fact, supporters of Shakur have and continue to argue that the trial was flawed, citing a lack of physical evidence and eyewitness inconsistencies, and the history of efforts by law enforcement, including the FBI, to undermine and outright sabotage the civil rights movement and Black power movements. At any rate, Shakur escaped from prison in 1979 and ultimately sought asylum in Cuba, where she lived out her life. As written by our sister site, Bossip: But despite the government’s efforts to silence her, Assata Shakur’s words and work lived on. Her 1988 autobiography Assata became a blueprint for resistance and self-determination, widely studied by activists, scholars, and young people searching for a voice in the struggle. Her life inspired movements like Assata’s Daughters in Chicago, and her name was shouted in protests in Ferguson and across the world. Assata was a human rights activist and freedom fighter who stood in solidarity with oppressed people worldwide — and for that, her legacy will endure. “People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave,” Shakur once said, according to her book, Assata: An Autobiography. In honor of her legacy, here’s the beautiful tribute to Assata Shakur, her story and her legacy, “A Song for Assata,” by Common. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqXrT9bU10 Rest well, Assata, and be free. A SONG FOR ASSATA by COMMON https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaqXrT9bU10 https://newsone.com/2436064/angela-davis-fbi-assata-shakur/ Angela Davis: FBI Targeting Assata Shakur ‘Reflects Very Logic Of Terrorism’ [VIDEO] In an interview from 2013, Angela Davis and Lennox Hinds, Assata Shakur's attorney, discuss Assata being added to the FBI's Most Wanted list. Written by Kirsten West Savali Published on September 26, 2025 UPDATE — Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, 11:12 a.m. EST: Assata Shakur joined the ancestors on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. In rememberance of her life and her work to liberate Black people, NewsOne is republishing this article and video about her being placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted List. In an interview on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman and Juan González, Davis said that the FBI placing Shakur on its “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, the first woman to be so designated, “reflects the very logic of terrorism.” “It seems to me that this act incorporates or reflects the very logic of terrorism,” Davis says. “I can’t help but think that it’s designed to frighten people who are involved in struggles today. Forty years ago seems like it was a long time ago. In the beginning of the 21st century, we’re still fighting around the very same issues — police violence, healthcare, education, people in prison.” Davis was joined by Lennox Hinds, Assata Shakur’s attorney since 1973 and professor of criminal justice at Rutgers University, who also said the act is politically motivated: “This is a political act pushed by the state of New Jersey, by some members of Congress from Miami, and with the intent of putting pressure on the Cuban government and to inflame public opinion,” Hinds says. “There is no way to appeal someone being put on the terrorists list.” Shakur, formerly Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, and the first woman placed on the “Most Wanted Terrorists” list. Shakur, the godmother of slain Hip-Hop artist, poet, actor and activist, Tupac Shakur, is only the second person from inside the United States to be placed on the list. In an unexpected move, the state of New Jersey announced it was adding $1 million to the FBI’s $1 million reward for her capture. Though the politically accepted version of events vilifies Shakur, please read below for the facts. Liberation News reports: Shakur was falsely convicted of having killed an officer on May 2, 1973. While driving on the New Jersey Turnpike, Assata, Zayd Shakur, and Sundiata Acoli were stopped by state troopers, allegedly for having a “faulty taillight.” A shootout ensued where one state trooper killed Zayd Shakur, and another trooper, Werner Foerster, ended up dead. Shakur was charged with both murders, despite the fact that the other trooper, James Harper, admitted he killed Zayd Shakur. Assata had been, following police instructions, standing with her hands in the air, when she was shot by Trooper Harper more than once, including a bullet to the back. Trooper Harper lied and said he had seen Shakur reach for a gun, a claim he later recanted. He also claimed she had been in a firing position, something a surgeon who examined her said was “anatomically impossible.” The same surgeon said it was “anatomically necessary” for her arms to have been raised for her to receive the bullet wounds she did. Tests done by the police found that Shakur had not fired a gun, and no physical or medical evidence was presented by the prosecution to back up their claim that she had fired a gun at Trooper Harper. While she was in trial proceedings, the state attempted to pin six other serious crimes on her, alleging she had carried out bank robberies, kidnappings and attempted killings. She was acquitted three times, two were dismissed and one resulted in a hung jury. Shakur was put on trial in a county where because of pre-trial publicity 70 percent of people thought she was guilty, and she was judged by an all-white jury. Without any physical evidence to present, the prosecution had to rely totally on false statements and innuendo aimed at playing on the prejudices of the jury pool against Black people, political radicals, and Black revolutionaries in particular. Finally, after years behind bars, the state secured her conviction for the Turnpike shooting. In 1979, Shakur escaped from jail and fled to Cuba where she received political asylum and has lived ever since. She once wrote, “I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the U.S. government’s policy towards people of color.” https://youtu.be/ZCuj2pvFPY4?si=iv61Mja2MPAKZy5A It speaks to the hypocrisy of the United States that there are police officers who have not only killed unarmed, innocent people, but are roaming free and lauded for their bravery. Based on the criteria, there are certain police departments who should be characterized as domestic terror cells. But instead, the FBI is going after a 65-year-old revolutionary who isn’t even guilty and — by international law — has the right to seek political asylum. It is amazing — and pathetic — how swiftly the FBI felt compelled to frame the domestic terrorism conversation around a Black revolutionary living in Cuba, instead of two White men from Boston. Timing is everything — and the timing of this travesty of justice speaks volumes. To show your support and say Hands Off Assata Shakur, sign the Change.org here. Angela Davis and Assata Shakur's Lawyer Denounce FBI's Adding of Exiled Activist to Terrorist List https://youtu.be/ZCuj2pvFPY4?si=iv61Mja2MPAKZy5A In 1987 referral https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/assata-shakur-black-liberation-army-figure-activist-dies-78-rcna233919

Movies That Move We- Sounder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WlL2KAjlg My Thoughts To the Minutes Movies That Move We, the third generation:) Lis + Kim+ Manda with Nike looking at Sounder. Manda/Kim/Nike/Lis 2:10 interesting that Kim had to read The Secret Garden. 3:22 Nike question, a question of a black family written by a white man? Lis: don't feel it is well received Kim: if he grew up in a family different than him, or have a different . But Manda: a product of the time. He had editors. the gaze in the story is for a certain audience. 6:14 Nike couldn't find any interviews. She cites a note: "fifty years ago i learned to read at a round table at a country school house, the teachers name was Charles jones. After school he worked for my father and in the summer he drove a hay rake and a mowing machine. He had a deep rich voice and he loved to tell stories, I have never forgotten them. Out of the stories he told me and the boy who sat next to me in the round table came the story in this book" 7:42 Nike didn't like the unnamed characters 10:20 Swampy the dog had no other roles in a movie:) 11:21 Nike asked what do you think about the dog? Kim, she liked the dog in the book becoming part of the family. 17:14 Nike, is this a radical story? Lis, the screen writer was black for the film did that make a difference. Kim, felt the film was tame. Manda, she turned it on and told her kids to go away. 22:45 The performance of Cicely Tyson 24:54 In the book, the author didn't have the ability to write the energy , so in the movie, a black woman was able to bring life in it. 27:11 in 1972 women couldn't have a credit card on their own in the united states of America, good point by Nike. 28:29 Lis, good point, god is the higher male and the pastor used god in that part. 29:55 Nike, when the boy went to the teachers house , he felt she was rich good question about whether he got that from a first hand source 31:32 Nike, what are your thoughts on the education scene? Kim, excited but sad. The teacher was considered rich for having her own home. A simple thing. Manda, in the book, we saw his progression. he lamented he couldn't read. In the movie he already can. And in the book the teacher was an older white guy, while the teacher was a younger black female. 33:48 Overview call from Nike 34:19 Manda, ask, does the movie exist as a reclamation of the story. 37:56 The ending, in the book the father was paralyzed very badly while in the movie, it was made more gentle. 39:15 Good point that the father and dog died in the book at the end. 39:42 Nike asked how did it feel Kim mentioned how she never lived in such a financially poor housing as the black characters in the book and she was spoiled as a child and when she was subjected to stories like this, she said thank god i am not in this situation. 41:36 Unike Sounder roots was very visible with the violence. 41:56 before Roots what story was the media standard? 43:28 Nike can't recall to many films with a black child at the center. IN AMENDMENT Sounder 2 supposedly was barely released which i argue is how the film industry producers historically kill films they don't want any to see but were forced from whatever reason to produce. Think John carter of mars for disney. IT was made , but Disney killed that film in advertising in the media mechanics of what a film needs. And Disney did it cause they bought MArvel and didn't want to waste any future money on a john carter series link https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&lpg=PA78&vq=annazette%20chase&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=falseembed referral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part_2,_Sounder The Dandridge Sisters n 1940 Irene https://youtu.be/CTeabecj_4o?si=BQ2qgnGQ6_1bTeYs Bright Road Directed by Gerald Mayer Screenplay by Emmet Lavery Based on "See How They Run" 1951 short story Ladies' Home Journal by Mary Elizabeth Vroman Starring Dorothy Dandridge Philip Hepburn Harry Belafonte Barbara Ann Sanders https://youtu.be/278qbMmPpPI?si=eqML-s-coYm5Wmwo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Road Four Shall Die is a 1940 American supernatural crime film directed by William Beaudine. It features Dorothy Dandridge in her first credited film role. It says in the black cinemaconnection that the film is presumed lost. Damn! https://blackcinemaconnection.com/2018/10/29/four-shall-die/ My Comment Nike, you don't like stories with characters absent a name? Lis, the problem is, the producer of the film was white and controlled what could be done or emitted, to this day producers dictate the parameters of artistic expression of directors/thespians or others? Manda, what later films are inspired by Sounder's stylistic conversions from book to screenplay, if any? Manda ask is the film a reclamation. I argue, yes absent deviating from being an intended feel good story. A sounder 2? My first question to you four is, with so many people, black in particular, desiring not to see films involving enslavement of blacks to whites, in the usa in particular, or seeing black struggle in an environment controlled by the non black, does Sounder fit the desire of some film goers , black or non black, to see a film absent black suffering or black struggle? My second question to you four is, the film industry ever since the code came in has always pushed films based on literature to be less violent, less fornicative, less depictive of negativities than the books themselves, the two oppositions to that are the Frankenstein films and Glory from spielberg, where Frankenstein is written as a creature fully functional or pleasant in appearance as a human male, the movies make the creature, crude, disgusting looking, incapable to be with a woman, OR the fifty third regiment mostly made up of free black men who can read but are depicted more negatively in terms of their status or condition. But, from fifty shades to Sounder to lord of the flies, to journey to the west to the statian film adapations of "men who hate women" ninety nine percent of films are never allowed to go as far as books. So my question is, what do you say to that? Has the film going audience in the usa been trained to expect a lighter touch on violent scenes, so much that to do as the books most violent parts will be unacceptable? Kim, roots was made in 1977, five years after , and Manda's question is interesting. If Sounder had not been made, would Roots be made? I think Roots is interesting cause even though Roots is well known , it isn't something shown alot today. And I argue it is because it isn't uplifting. Overall it doesn't allow non blacks to think of the usa as this country of egalitarianism, not does it allow blacks to think of the usa as some wanted home by their forebears, who were forced to immigrate. Nanda, asked before Roots what was the film dealing with the past of blacks in the USA considered the "standard" and I argue Sounder was it. Nike, check out the film Bright Road with Dorothy Dandridge, the question I pose to all four of you is, if no "Bright Road" 1953 happened would there be a Sounder film? referral https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9WlL2KAjlg&lc=UgwTgyYJo5BPjxYaWzB4AaABAg

Someone asked me to give old horror films i recommend and are my favorites... I added some good to watch, what say you? Recommended The Seventh Victim- 1943- you may enjoy this one, I saw this for the first time recently. The end is electric, a human horror or is it?:) I want to know if you think this is more frightening than rosemary's baby? The Uninvited 1944- I despise that the studios demanded the ending where the ghost is revealed. it is the films only blemish. The Innocents 1961- the chiaroscuro in this film is brilliant, plus the story shows how human horror can be. A favorite of mine but i recommend. The Haunting 1963 - the chiaroscuro in this film, is brilliant Kuroneko 1968 - it is romantic so may be one of the best to watch with a partner. the beginning is so straight forward The Wicker Man- 1973- you thought you could come her, a man alone, and defeat all of us, brilliant. Outside the introductory message which is temporally brilliant, the ego of the cop guy,... in the wicker man it is the arrogance to go into horror, that is the trick for me. Alot of other films these people didn't know or didn't want but here, this guy walks into it. the horror of human arrogance. A Favorite of mine but I recommend. Favorite The Body Snatcher 1945- I love the plot, every character has value, every character has purpose, for me it is great writing, and I love when human horror blends with supernatural horror. Isle of the Dead 1945 - again Luten, The premise is great, the reason why they are in this little island works, and the rest is magic. Invasion of the Body Snatcher 1956- it is campy but classic. it is a classic example of how a writer can make a premise that doesn't require non humans creature to still have creatures. The Masque of the Red Death 1964 - I just love hearing Vincent Price say, I was a worshipper of Satan when no one else was:) classic. The Devil Rides Out 1968 - thank god... yes, it is he you must thank:) the fact that a character actually explains the supernatural in this film.is underrated. yes, the special effects are campy. Night of the Living Dead 1969 - the action of this horror film, great use Not Recommended or Favorite but a good watch Phantom of the opera 1925 - You need to see the restored version, i got to see it on turner classic movies. The end is great cause it exposes the truth, that many miss, the phantom's real weapon isn't his face but his manipulation of the emotions of the masses, their fear. Cat People 1942- Val Lewton. As a fellow writer you may be interested to know that Luten wrote many screenplays that were never made. He produced cat people but he was involved in all his films production. The Picture of Dorian Grey 1945- if you are fan of angela lansbury , cry:) Night of the hunter 1955 human horror, very tense, not spooky, a crime drama but man House on Haunted Hill 1959 - the plot is lovely Carnival of SOuls 1962- great hook at the end Onibaba 1964- great blend of magic and human horror Second 1966- another human horror, it is human society that is the horror, nice angular cinematography Event Horizon 1997 liberate tuteme:) hahaah not old, but consider it, love the premise. The autopsy of Jane Doe 2016- not old, not black and white, but the use of light and shadow and the premise, considering who the criminal really is:) Referral https://aalbc.com/tc/profile/6477-richardmurray/?status=2745&type=status EMBED CODE MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v64doSu--T4 Video TIME INDEX Vocalise is sung by Sumi Jo and performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Complete Film Score Presentation 1 - Main Title 0:00:00 2 - Dean Corso 0:03:31 3 - The Balkan Press Building 0:04:22 4 - First Perusal 0:04:55 5 - The Girl At The Library 0:05:29 6 - Menace 0:08:14 7 - Liana Telfer 0:08:40 8 - Liana Berserk 0:11:38 9 - Corso Finds Bernie 0:12:03 10 - Corso's Flight 0:14:30 11 - Second Perusal 0:15:14 12 - The Girl On The Train 0:15:41 13 - Interrupted Solo 0:17:22 14 - Comparing Editions 0:17:42 15 - Road Menace 0:19:41 16 - Girl In The Hotel Lobby 0:20:26 17 - Telephone Call 0:22:08 18 - Fargas' Body 0:22:51 19 - The Burning Book 0:23:22 20 - Third Perusal And Walk To Kessler's 0:23:52 21 - Waiting Out The Stalker 0:25:15 22 - The Stalker And The Girl 0:26:21 23 - Bloody Nose 0:27:54 24 - Hiding The Book 0:29:05 25 - Frieda Kessler's Book 0:30:57 26 - Book In Flames 0:33:40 27 - The Book Is Gone 0:34:10 28 - The Telfer Woman! 0:34:41 29 - Following Mrs. Telfer 0:35:55 30 - St Martin 0:37:05 31 - The Blond Man's Demise 0:41:17 32 - Boris Kills Liana 0:43:00 33 - Pursuing Balkan 0:43:53 34 - A Stop At The Inn 0:45:44 35 - The Fortress 0:47:02 36 - Balkan's Failure 0:49:14 37 - Consumation 0:53:07 38 - The Engraving 0:54:44 39 - Corso's Reward 0:55:20 40 - Vocalise 0:56:20 Original Soundtrack Album 41 - Vocalise ~ Theme From The Ninth Gate ~ 1:00:13 42 - Opening Titles 1:04:10 43 - Corso 1:07:42 44 - Bernie is Dead 1:11:07 45 - Liana 1:15:38 46 - Plane To Spain (Bolero) 1:18:41 47 - The Motorbike 1:23:30 48 - Missing Book / Stalking Corso 1:24:48 49 - Blood On His Face 1:29:30 50 - Chateau Saint Martin 1:30:43 51 - Liana's Death 1:34:48 52 - Boo! - The Chase 1:37:27 53 - Balkan's Death 1:41:56 54 - The Ninth Gate 1:45:49 55 - Corso and the Girl 1:47:02 56 - Vocalise ~ Theme from The Ninth Gate ~ (Reprise) 1:50:23 IN AMENDMENT October is horror eternally nosferatu 1922 https://youtu.be/ImNx0zIBwIw?si=LSkMzHmeMVM0gobY white zombie 1932 https://archive.org/details/WhiteZombie house on haunted hill 1959 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/house-on-haunted-hill little shop of horrors 1960 https://archive.org/details/TheLittleShopOfHorrors1960_765 carnival of souls 1962 https://youtu.be/vNYg4YWkp0k?si=gORT03Ji01XlFPI1 The last man on earth 1964 https://youtu.be/Vv2WUewBx8U?si=-0qxOuQATH2Db-Ak Titular Titans month! The title warned you about them:) but you still hang around them , why? Svengali 1931 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/svengali The phantom of the opera 1925 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-phantom-of-the-opera-0 the hands of orlac 1924 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-hands-of-orlac-1924 dr jekyl and mr hyde 1913 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1913 frankenstein 1910 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/frankenstein-2 what about maniacal madmen month:) M^3 Bloody pit of horror 1965 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/bloody-pit-of-horror-0 The golem 1920 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-golem the monster maker 1964 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/monster-maker-the the most dangerous game 1932 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-most-dangerous-game Some others, you or others can use cat and the canary 1927 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/the-cat-and-the-canary japanese atomic rulers of the world 1964 https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/atomic-rulers-of-the-world

Ghibli vs Disney concerning "evil doers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DpniToXq4 my comment One missed on thing about Zeniba. While many consider her good because she welcomes chihero and company, has her guide , lantern, help them through the dark forest about her home. Is hugging and gentle and kind. What is missed to the parallel between Zeniba side Yubaba is the negativities, maybe not evil, in Zeniba. Yubaba lives close to the gates to the living world, so she can actually interact with those who may become lost. Yubaba is like a community organizer of various spirits who have become lost or need a balanced life. Zeniba lives very far so much so even leaving at the early morning by train she can only be reached at night. She doesn't offer any assistance even though she can reach Yubaba's lands as she proved with the paper airplane creatures. Zeniba has never had a child meaning she has never opened herself up to certain kinds of relationship. Zeniba may not have what people can an evil aspect, but she has her own negativity, which i think is missed in ghibli's "good" characters at times. in amendment so @Miguelmunuera2601 are you saying the best writing strategy is to do the nippon 4 act in the jeudeo christian three act.

dark skin women are liked when they are physically exceptional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWVcDaKJVww my comment you made me laugh "excuse me white woman, would you please ..." ahh she is a DOS interesting so many assumed she is from the continent. If you ever go to the southern states and see black towns you will see very dark skin black people. good point on lizzo, the idea that black women whose faces are never deemed more beautiful than white women's in white owned media, has to have a body that no male can deny they want to screw is the allusion. And black entertainers especially musicians don't make it better when in their videos talking about the best women to screw, they have so many women who are not black or yella black women. DO YOU KNIT?

so that’s why this scene made Denzel a star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEjh41DCLo my comment the problem with glory is the film while a work of fiction speaks true on a lot of things. But the most important thing it says is, the union won but it wasn't that the union or the confederacy were heroes. but a few of the seeds in that time will start to modulate the usa into the functional multiracial populace it is today, over three hundred million, more racial variance than any other populace under any other government. As Speilberg suggested using O fortuna [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Fortuna ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nthojvLZoNY&list=RDnthojvLZoNY&start_radio=1 ] about the inevitability of fate. Most well known in film audiences concerning King Arthur which is a call back to a fantasy past. In Glory, O Fortuna , refers to the "glorious" fate of the usa going forward where blacks and non blacks will fight together moreover in the coming years and moreso beyond the time of the war between the states. So even as the 54 mostly fall , what they begin will be something unseen. A time unseen before. [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz3sZiVAO0k ; NOTE: charging fort wagner - https://jameshorner-filmmusic.com/glory-an-analysis-of-the-complete-score/ ] The Most Terrifying Trope in Modern Horror (That No One Will Touch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyiNgAXEKg my comment Never heard of Swallow Barn from John Kennedy [ https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/swallow-barn-1832/ , under pen name Mark Littleton] , thanks. Aunt Phillis's Cabin [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Phillis%27s_Cabin ] thanks again. I knew of Dixon but I didn't know he was a pastor, hilarious. The Leopard's spots[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leopard%27s_Spots ] / The Clansman [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clansman:_A_Historical_Romance_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan ] / The Traitor [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Traitor_(Dixon_novel) ] You may enjoy KLAN IS DENOUNCED BY 'THE CLANSMAN'; Thomas Dixon Blames It for Riots and Bloodshed and Demands It Be Throttled. Jan. 23, 1923 [ https://www.nytimes.com/1923/01/23/archives/klan-is-denounced-by-the-clansman-thomas-dixon-blames-it-for-riots.html ] Within Our Gates from Micheaux is lovely [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1E0NrcnwAE ] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Within_Our_Gates ] Charles Chesnutt If anyone ever finds the Conjure Woman I wonder. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman_(film) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjure_Woman ; ] before passing by nella larsen [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_(novel) ] and devil in a blue dress by walter mosley [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_a_Blue_Dress ] there was the house behind the cedars [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_Behind_the_Cedars_(book) ] The Foxes of HArrow - odd the book doesn't have a wiki page. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foxes_of_Harrow ] Computers can be coded to not make connections, though people may not realize it. Good point on comedy being the way to attack the southern plantation. Yeah, comedy is a tool looking at Get Out, I am not a comedic writer. Sons of Ingagi - first science fiction film to have an all black cast [ https://archive.org/details/SonOfIngagi1940 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_of_Ingagi ] Consider watching the Blood of Jesus, written and directed by spencer williams [ https://archive.org/details/blood_of_jesus ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_of_Jesus ] Nice shout for the innocents, true horror classic [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFEXmmiAt0 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innocents_(1961_film) ] John P Kennedy mentored Poe, wow. Funny how it took to the 1990s for lake Lanier to be revealed to still have graves. Good point on slave narratives. A unique DOS genre , like Negro Spirituals. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_in_the_Life_of_a_Slave_Girl ; https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030 ] Good point on how Victorian mansions and antebellum homes were made at the same time, while the European Victorian broke down and haunted while antebellum became wedding spaces. Never heard of the Changeling [ https://youtu.be/WA-taJ2Ui30?si=HtwWlEGrRer5YrBw ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Changeling_(film) ] CLOTEL https://aalbc.com/tc/blogs/entry/496-clotel-or-the-presidents-daughter-a-narrative-of-slave-life-in-the-united-states-by-william-well-brown/ ANd To see more work https://aalbc.com/tc/clubs/7-dos-earliest-literature/

medieval fantasy is or not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jtEbn2s-w my comment Interesting points. well done. I like ivanhoe. Good point, gawain and the green knight has more in common with narnia not lord of the rings when it comes to a real setting that interacts with the fantastic. I get your point. Folklorism needs to be stated more often. Good points, dragons/elves/magic women with items are not confined to european medeival. You convinced me, fantasy is the genre, not medieval fantasy. 18:56 good point the problem is the way in which history books assess history. 19:57 good quote, people didn't go to sleep ancient and wake up medieval. As i say, the roman empire didn't die when most think it did. 22:55 funny 23:14 great point, technology doesn't arrive at the same time everywhere. 24:31 good point on using communication methods as a determinent. 26:52 good point inhow in east asia, they are talking about who is running things, in that case, 28:47 good point, most people in europe durin the time called the middle ages had a greater religiosity than most fantasy novel labeled medieval have. 32:04 funny how he went from constantine to the ottomans. 35:54 what about european fantasy as a label for lord of the rings/song of ice and fire or similar. 39:23 yes more finesse is needed in how people construct history 43:17 great point , thousand of years and now tech change 45:58 thank you, some wars are inevitable 46:04 great point cause george rr martin once said, what about the orcs how are orc children. so Song of ice and fire is historical fantasy while lord of the rings is fantasy based on multiheritage folklore 53:03 hmm good points, using time or who is in charge is a better label IN AMENDMENT Excalibur silent film edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MjyYEQtr3A