Black History Month- James Earl Jones

He has one of the most recognizable voices in the entertainment business and it all began with a grapefruit and a dedicated teacher. James Earl Jones was born in Mississippi in 1931. His parents separated before his birth and his grandparents raised him. When Jones was five, his family moved to Michigan and settled in the small town of Dublin, in Manistee County.

The trauma of his young life left Jones with a serious - almost incapacitating - stuttering problem. For years, he refused to speak more than a few words-even to his family. In school, Jones pretended to be mute and communicated by writing. That was until Donald Crouch, a Manistee High School English teacher, helped him overcome his debilitating problem. Crouch challenged his students to write a poem. Jones wrote his "Ode to Grapefruit" in the epic meter of Henry Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Crouch then challenged Jones to read the poem before his classmates. He read it flawlessly. With Crouch's encouragement, Jones competed in debates and oratorical contests. As a senior, he won a public-speaking contest and earned a scholarship to the University of Michigan.

Jones planned to study medicine, but he was attracted to the theatre. After graduating in 1953 with a degree in drama, he arrived in New York City to pursue an acting career. It wasn't easy. Jones scrubbed floors, lived on $19 a month and sought the few opportunities available to black actors.

After a series of lesser roles, Jones won acclaim in the mid-1960s for his lead role in Shakespeare's Othello. In 1964, director Stanley Kubrick cast Jones in Dr. Strangelove, his first movie. In 1968, Jones won a Tony award for his Broadway performance of The Great White Hope, a story based on Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion. Two years later, the film version won Jones an Oscar nomination.

Jones has appeared in more than fifty films, returns regularly to the live theatre and provided the voice of villain Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King. Today, James Earl Jones is one of Hollywood's most versatile actors and one of its most distinctive voices.

Black History Month- Sidney Poitier

Sidney Poitier, (born February 20, 1927) is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.

In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role inLilies of the Field. The significance of this achievement was later bolstered in 1967 when he starred in three well-received films—To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner—making him the top box office star of that year.]In 1999, the American Film Institute named Poitier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 22nd on the list of 25.

Poitier has directed a number of popular movies such as A Piece of the Action; Uptown Saturday Night, and Let's Do It Again (with friend Bill Cosby), and Stir Crazy (starring Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder). In 2002, 38 years after receiving the Best Actor Award, Poitier was chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Honorary Award, designated "To Sidney Poitier in recognition of his remarkable accomplishments as an artist and as a human being. Since 1997 he has been the Bahamian ambassador to Japan. On August 12, 2009, Sidney Poitier was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States of America's highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama.

Black History Month

This Month is African American Month, each day, I will be posting a famous African American, paying homage, to his her contribution, in the civil rights movement, of the 1960's. In the fields of Politics, Arts, Entertainment and Technology. Lets take the time to recognize these great people, and the scarifices they made, paving the way for us today.....

New Superhero In Town...... Super Artistic Man (S.A.M) ....by Wade Cameron

 (Alex Turner) aka ..S.A.M is not your average day citizen, that one day discovers, he has the power to change the world, through his creative powers. Born in New York, he was raised in the suburbs of New York by a single mother and his brother and two sisters. In high school, Alex was very studious person, who stayed alone for the most part, is viewed as strange by his peers.  He later on, pursues a degree in communication at Columbia University, where he discovered his love for the arts. Alex one day, while working in the Television studio on Campus, found a mysterious briefcase, that was left by stranger, many years ago, that he later found out was an Alumni of the school.  After stumbling upon the briefcase, he discovered a  Brush Pen, Markers, Colored Pencils, Paintbrush, Digital Camera, Microphone, Sketch Book and Magical Gloves, after deeply analyzing the materials, he found it it gave him magically powers beyond his wildness dreams. After putting these innovative ideas to work, his imagination becomes more indepth, as he creates and captures images, by the stretch of the imagination. Knowing his capabilty to do good, he develops his private studio, where he creates his alter ego. (S.A.M) Super Artistic man. Realizing the world is filled with problems, he takes his artistic capabilities around the world, coming up with creative ways, to defend evil and clean up environmental problems.The only scenario, he brings about  a new villains, that are driven by greed and lust, to threaten the world make it more confused..... His tough challenge yet, Dr. Greed...... That tries to corrupt humankind with his own philosophy and ideas.. Character sketch coming soon......

New hybrid airships prepare to take flight

The 21 century is beginning to taking of in more ways than one, when it comes to hybrid airships. This new idea combines airplane with the airship, creating a hybrid. This is leading to new ways for creating environmental solutions, to get rid of the pollution, special projects for the army, and feeding the hungry. The only concern at the moment, is finding the financial backing to take on such a huge project, that can be a way of helping with humanitarian missions. The benefits it presents is having the inability to future where you can easily transmit cargo to remote areas that require special missions. This can come as a huge advantage when it comes to transmitting troops that don't require roadways where you don't need roadways. These new hybrid aviation can support 150 tons. These new ideas are now being explored in Australian companies called sky lifter. As it been said, the technology always finds new innovate ways to progress humankind, but depending how you look at its views it can also spell doom for those looking at it from a personal and selfish reason, being used to for chemical and nuclear weapons to inflict harm onto other nations, but in the back of my mind, looking at it from a humanistic standpoint, where a aircraft can transmitted tons of food for nation that can feed its perople, which is always a good thing to account for.

Rest Of World Pay Attention!!

I might be taking the story to the extreme, but this is what exactly what the citizen of Cairo are doing, as people's frustration begins to brew even more. Over major economic and political reforms. People are arming them with swords and anything they can find to fight against the oppressive government that fail to comply with their citizens.Is this a way to come to a peaceful resolution?  Being born in a country, where there's no political rights for its people, I know first hand what it feels like when leaders don't want to listen and comply with concerns of its people, which is shameful, because they are there to serve the people. Are what the people are doing a act of justice?  No, but what can you do when your tired and frustrated, because for years, the interior branch of government are not listening . A decade full of silence and suppression, is now  being taken to the extreme, as people are arming themselves with swords, knives, rocks and etc, so they can simmer their broiling anger.. Not a good image for its country or its people, as police forces are fighting back, with tear gas and rifles. The rest of the world should be taking notice, because as this is could be a global revolution, if world leaders don't take these warning seriously. Many people these days are living by this theory, sometimes to get what you want, you have to stir up a dust. The rest if the world should pay attention to what is going on in Egypt, because this might be the global solution for the 21 century, if world leaders don't pay attention to its citizens.... One Love

Egyptian Citizens Clash With Police

As we move further into the 21 century, we are reminded of the many problems, we are face with in the world. Especially, when it comes to human rights, which has been evident, since the beginning of time, so people have the option to live freely and openly, but what happens, when government neglect the voice of the people?You can look at it from this standpoint of a child, that no longer have access to play with his or own toys, they get frustrated, because they parents ignore their plea, and after a while, they start to throw tantrums, as a way of gaining attention. Same scenario here, exercised yesterday, as demonstrators as much as 1000, expressing their concerns, over issues the government are ignoring. Police fired tear gas as citizens walk the streets, protesting their rights. Throwing rocks, and barricading roads, so the government can somehow understand their frustration. Is this an act of democracy? When people don't have the option to speak out on issues that affect their country, Not sure what the human rights policy is in Egypt, but having the right to assemble and march in a unified manner,  In my eyes,  this should be the universal answer  for every nation, because the government was established to serve its people, so they can have a better understanding on what issues needs to be addressed or fixed, but what happens, when people are ignored? Then they take matters into their own hands. Why can't their be a common ground, between the two sides,  where they can come to the table,  listening to each others concerns, in a dignified manner, so they can come to a peaceful solution.I believe the regime should reconsider what there doing, by meeting its citizens half way, otherwise, it going to turn into a battlefield, filled with bloodshed, resulting in greatest tragedy of all, which is whether or not, one side wins, or the other side losses, but human life will be lost. One Love