WORD ON THE STREET!

A new film by Tim Reid (produced the film Once upon a Time When We Were Colored) is coming to selected theaters.

The movie is called Asunder and stars Blair Underwood and Michael Beach (Waiting to Exhale & Soul Food).

Help make this work. Please send this to as many people as possible so this will be a successful film.

This is the first movie in 55 years written, directed and produced by Blacks, made in a black-owned studio, distributed by Blacks, AND based on a novel written by a Black author (Trois was not filmed in a Black studio).

Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati, Venus Flytrap, Simon and Simon, Frank's Place and Sister, Sister) has been very vocal about the plight of Black films, shows and actors. His own show Links was dropped by ShowTime. Well-known names have talked about Blacks owning and distributing their own stuff, but Tim has actually done it. If we do not support the project during its 1st week (the big box-office debut), it will be much harder for this and other Black films to get into the theater mainstream.

 

If you, family or friends live in a NYCHA housing complex there are some things you need to be aware of.

The City of New York intends to mandate that public housing residents volunteer 8 hours a month to community service, or their households could face eviction!

It's time for the passive residents of NYC to stand up for their rights, and protest this type of action!

You can believe this won't necessarily apply to those of the "chosen ethnic group" but it will impact, Blacks and Latinos.

There is an ongoing effort to displace residents in NYC Housing.  Some of the major developers in the City have been eyeing these complexes.  They are along major thoroughfares, have elevator buildings, commanding views, and on site parking.  This but one of the ways they plan on riding themselves of the people who are standing in the way of their seizing these properties!

While many residents are to busy partying and getting high, some will find themselves on the street because they think public housing is a sure thing and guaranteed for life.  This isn't true!

NYCHA already enforces evicting families if one member of the household is convicted of selling or possession of drugs.  Since this was implemented not one voice has had the media's attention to address how this ruling is racist in nature.  And needless to say the attitude from the residents is "What can we do!" or "We can't do anything!"  Nothing is farther from the truth!

Well, this time the NYC Public Housing Resident Alliance, Public Housing Residents of The Lower East Side (PHROLES), Legal Aid Society, and the Community Service Society have planned a protest and you would want to let your voices be heard!