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[terrymrriggs]

Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back BLACKHISTORY weekender The theme is it takes a village to raise a child which will have two parts the biggest BLACKHISTORY tour in London in which it will have a photographic point and museum and the other part will be all day African market at Acklem village with speakers and entertainment on the 3rd between 8am and 9am we will meet at the embankment Cleopatra needle 9am start and on the 4th meet a the Victoria and Albert Museum between 9:30 10:00am if you get the flyer you will get the meeting point to get you into the photograph for the history in the making legacy book don’t miss it it will be powerful and it will be live on blackicetv7 all one word on YouTube see you there. https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mrRiiggz @rusian1 (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0P-XIhge3j/?igshid=y7hei6rxfd0q

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These all sound amazing!

Utopia Falls

It's not every day that we get a sci-fi drama series about young people in the future discovering hip hop and using it as a tool for freedom, but in 2020 that's exactly the kind of out-the-box programming coming to CBC Gem. Utopia Falls is the brainchild of R.T. Thorne, the award-winning filmmaker behind a ton of your favourite music videos (and episodes of Degrassi). With Boi-1da serving as executive music producer and choreography by the iconic Tanisha Scott, this is an Avengers-level assembly of Canadian talent, and I for one am super excited to see their collective vision manifest. It begins streaming on CBC Gem Friday, Feb. 14.

The Negroes Are Congregating

First of all: amazing title. Second of all: if you're in Toronto in March, you should make time to see this play. Written by Natasha Adiyana Morris and celebrating its world premiere at Theatre Passe Muraille in March, The Negroes Are Congregating is a poetic yet scathing deep dive into racism in Canada and around the world. I had a chance to see a workshop production and I'm telling you, this play asks certain questions that will stick with you long after the curtains close.

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel Homegoing took the literary world by storm. Transcendent Kingdom is the follow-up to that bestseller, and it tells the tale of a Ghanaian family living in Alabama as they cope with depression, addiction and grief. The protagonist, Gifty, is studying neuroscience at Stanford University, trying to understand the source of her family's troubles. But when science can't provide the answers, she turns to faith. I'm excited to snuggle under my covers and read this one.

Flags of Unsung Countries

The Art Gallery of Southern Manitoba recently made a commitment to prioritizing the work of Black Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) women artists in the Prairies, and they have an exciting lineup on the way. It begins with an exhibit by the brilliant Liz Ikiriko, a Saskatchewan artist now living in Toronto. Flags of Unsung Countries originated at the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina but will make its Manitoba debut January 16.

Initiated as an attempt to understand the journey of her father — a Nigerian immigrant living with mental illness in the Prairies — this photographic installation explores questions of migration, ceremony and the concept of home. Ikiriko's work as an artist and curator is constantly inviting viewers to question the relationships and systems that we so often take for granted and this exhibit promises to do much of the same.

Zola

In 2015, the internet was introduced to one of the greatest Twitter storytellers to ever grace the platform: Aziah "Zola" Wells. In a string of 148 tweets, she told the epic tale of a road trip to Florida that includes sugar daddies and pimps, stripping and prostitution, murder and a suicide attempt. Super serious topics, I know, but as told by Wells, it was an edge-of-your-seat social-media thriller that boasted famous fans like Ava DuVernay, Solange Knowles and Missy Elliott. The film version is coming to Sundance later this month. Directed by Janicza Bravo (who's also directed some of your fave episodes of Atlanta and Dear White People) and written by Bravo and Jeremy O. Harris (the man who shook up Broadway with 2018's Slave Play), this movie promises to be a hell of a ride.

Lovecraft Country

Produced by Jordan Peele, you say? That name is all it takes to spark my interest, but this new television series also has a number of other factors in its favour. It stars Jonathan Majors (one of my new favourite actors) alongside Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aunjanue Ellis and Michael K. Williams, and is a drama-horror that takes place in the 1950s Jim Crow American South (definitely a period ripe with material for horror). Misha Green is the showrunner, and if you ever watched Underground (which was tragically cancelled after just two brilliant seasons) you'll know why this is a very, very good thing. It comes to HBO later this year.

Controlled Damage

Viola Desmond's story deserves all the treatments: novel, major motion picture, rap songs, poems and, of course, the stage. Andrea Scott's play Controlled Damage has its world premiere at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax this February. What better way to celebrate Black History Month than by reliving a Canadian Civil Rights hero's courageous act of bravery?

Love is the Message the Message is Death

Condensing 400 years of history into a seven-minute looped video scored by Kanye West's "Ultralight Beam" sounds like an impossible task. But under the purposeful eye of Arthur Jafa, one finds a collage of images that showcases the nuance, pain, joy, sexuality, spirituality, mess, love and grief of Black life in the United States of America.

Hearing Kanye sing, "This is a God dream, this is a God dream, this is everything," while watching Jafa's meticulously edited array of images is an experience you don't want to miss. The installation is on now at the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal to March 3.

Untitled Fred Hampton Project (formerly known as Jesus Was My Homeboy)

If you don't know the story of Fred Hampton — the young, charismatic Black Panther activist who was identified as a threat by the FBI and assassinated in his home by the police — please do some research before this film drops. His story is one that is both inspiring and tragic, enraging and mobilizing. It needs to be told and seen on the big screen.

Directed by Shaka King (a member of the dream team behind Random Acts of Flyness), produced by Ryan Coogler (oh, you know, just the genius who gave us Black Panther, Creed and Fruitvale Station, no big deal) and starring LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya, I am counting down the days until this film arrives. (It's scheduled for August, but since it still doesn't have a name...who knows!)

Soul

Seriously, Disney: can we get an animated movie with Black characters who get to stay human beings for the entirety of the film?

As skeptical as I am, I'm going to give this new one a chance, only because it boasts a cast filled with so many of my faves, including Jamie Foxx, Questlove and Phylicia Rashad. The start of the trailer also hints at some great jazzy numbers and a storyline about following one's artistic passion (I'm always a sucker for narratives like that). It comes to theatres in June.

Corrections

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Boi-1da ccomposed the score for Utopia Falls. The composer is Nikhil Seetharam.Jan 13, 2020 11:55 AM ET

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This is the background info for the keynote speaker from yesterday. #blackhistoryevent #Blackhistory #BlacksInAviation

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Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back BLACKHISTORY weekender The theme is it takes a village to raise a child which will have two parts the biggest BLACKHISTORY tour in London in which it will have a photographic point and museum and the other part will be all day African market at Acklem village with speakers and entertainment on the 3rd between 8am and 9am we will meet at the embankment Cleopatra needle 9am start and on the 4th meet a the Victoria and Albert Museum between 9:30 10:00am if you get the flyer you will get the meeting point to get you into the photograph for the history in the making legacy book don’t miss it it will be powerful and it will be live on blackicetv7 all one word on YouTube see you there. https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mrRiiggz @redpilltrill (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0IoWdZgP_r/?igshid=moxyndo1xymq

[terrymrriggs]

Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back BLACKHISTORY weekender The theme is it takes a village to raise a child which will have two parts the biggest BLACKHISTORY tour in London in which it will have a photographic point and museum and the other part will be all day African market at Acklem village with speakers and entertainment on the 3rd between 8am and 9am we will meet at the embankment Cleopatra needle 9am start and on the 4th meet a the Victoria and Albert Museum between 9:30 10:00am if you get the flyer you will get the meeting point to get you into the photograph for the history in the making legacy book don’t miss it it will be powerful and it will be live on blackicetv7 all one word on YouTube see you there. https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mrRiiggz @historicalwalker (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0F1bdbgE3K/?igshid=jilhltgxph7t

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Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back BLACKHISTORY weekender The theme is it takes a village to raise a child which will have two parts the biggest BLACKHISTORY tour in London in which it will have a photographic point and museum and the other part will be all day African market at Acklem village with speakers and entertainment on the 3rd between 8am and 9am we will meet at the embankment Cleopatra needle 9am start and on the 4th meet a the Victoria and Albert Museum between 9:30 10:00am if you get the flyer you will get the meeting point to get you into the photograph for the history in the making legacy book don’t miss it it will be powerful and it will be live on blackicetv7 all one word on YouTube see you there. https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mrRiiggz (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Fuep6Ayn1/?igshid=1i7jb8t1vr5pj

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzvEFV8AdOB/?igshid=ho72p05siro

[terrymrriggs]

Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @mrriggz my beautiful baby sister on the job @xxceexxceexx @ittakesav1llage #powermoves2019 (at Acklam Village Market) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXDwAAA8a2/?igshid=1gx2880slluoh

[terrymrriggs]

Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz (at New Orleans, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxpra9uh3ii/?igshid=ns76juiaru8m

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Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back BLACKHISTORY weekender The theme is it takes a village to raise a child which will have two parts the biggest BLACKHISTORY tour in London in which it will have a photographic point and museum and the other part will be all day African market at Acklem village with speakers and entertainment on the 3rd between 8am and 9am we will meet at the embankment Cleopatra needle 9am start and on the 4th meet a the Victoria and Albert Museum between 9:30 10:00am if you get the flyer you will get the meeting point to get you into the photograph for the history in the making legacy book don’t miss it it will be powerful and it will be live on blackicetv7 all one word on YouTube see you there. https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mrRiiggz @manhoodacademywest #guidinganewgeneration (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0iF2LVg_p1/?igshid=1fe715d83e157

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny https://youtu.be/z00dgUmmrNg https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzp4cFrAzwl/?igshid=91fjpjrhmc3z

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKxAWIg8--/?igshid=m2uu2igr8q9v

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKwz9Ug2Du/?igshid=odf6z99j3djx

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKwhalgGc9/?igshid=12me769juwd6l

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Repost from @mrriggz using @RepostRegramApp - Greetings and Blessings family this your brother #MrRiggs just a reminder for any one that’s what to get involved with the #blackhistoryweekender on the 3rd and 4th of August to make it must beautiful weekend to remember 2 days of learning, bonding, fun, excitement and finding out who you are as one family there will be many things happening on the days of Black experience and there will be a African market a weekend not to be missed inbox me if you what to get involved and become a tourist as there will be tours on the days August is are month let’s take it back #nubeginning #theyearoftheafrican #legacies #blackicetv7 #hkthbaby #historyinthemaking #guidinganewgeneration #lifeisforliving #blackhistory #blackhistoryevent a weekend of fun Supreme advertising and distributions: @blackicetv7 @imguilhemc @mukoko.official @mrRiiggz @quebutter @iskateny (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzEMA-QAYpc/?igshid=2dij2lmp14or