Akeelah anderson biography of abraham
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Black History Month Streaming and DVD Resources
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Black America since MLK. Part One. Out of the Shadows (55min., ) The series begins at a crucial turning point in American history: the Selma marches that led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act, and the urban rebellion that broke out in Watts just a few days later. Watts marked a new phase in the black struggle, revealing that our nation's racial issues were not confined to the Jim Crow South - and that true equality would not come through laws alone. African Americans wanted access to better jobs, housing and education, and an end to police brutality, and they felt emboldened to try new strategies for achieving those goals. Gates travels from Watts to rural Alabama, where he learns how Stokely Carmichael helped African Americans form their own political party - the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, which ran an all-black ticket and sought political power in
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WORDS
WORDS
by William H. Benson
December 28,
At the encouragement of a family member, I slowed down for two hours last Friday night to watch a video: Alkeelah and the Bee, and strangely enough, I liked it. It is the fictional story of Akeelah Anderson, an year-old African-American girl with a talent for spelling words. She attends Crenshaw Middle School in Los Angeles and wins the school’s spelling bee. She goes to the regional contest and wins that. She then goes to Washington D.C. to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee Contest.
In the process of preparing, she meets a UCLA college professor who coaches her and who tells her, “Akeelah, you can win the national contest, for you have a brain like a sponge.” She makes friends with the other spellers, and she discovers that her family and friends want to help her succeed.
In the process of preparing for the national contest, she memorizes the spelling of five thousand words, such as xanthosis—
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Akeelah & The Bee Production Notes
Akeelah & The Bee Production Notes
Laurence Fishburne
Angela Bassett
Keke Palmer
Curtis Armstrong
Written and directed by Doug Atchison
Preliminary Production Notes
Rating: PG (for some language)
Running time: mins.
THE CAST
AkeelahKeke Palmer
Dr. LarabeeLaurence Fishburne
Bassett
Mr. WelchCurtis Armstrong
JavierJR Villarreal
DylanSean Michael Afable
Garey
KianaErica Hubbard
Thompson Young
TerrenceJulito McCullum
Ms. Phillips
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THE FILMMAKERS
Written and directed byDoug Atchison
Produced Hult Ganis
Sid Ganis
Produced byLaurence Fishburne
Produced byMichael Romersa
.Danny Llewelyn
Executive ProducersTodd Wagner
Mark Cuban
.Marc Butan
Executive ProducersHelen Sugland
Michael Burns
Michael Paseornek
Tom Ortenberg
Upton
Kubena
Jaki Brown-Karman
Director of PhotographyM. David Mullen, ASC
Production Alan Young
EditorGlenn Farr
Costume DirectorSharen Davis
Music Zigman
Music SupervisorJoel C. High
Casting Coley
.Kim Coleman