“The Nine Lives of Marion Berry” is on Hulu
A still from the film.
Just heard about this– a film I’ve wanted to see is now available online, via Hulu. If you haven’t seen “The Nine Lives of Marion Berry” yet, go here and stream for yourself, if you have the capacity to do so. Here’s the blurb from Hulu:
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry tells the saga of this despised, beloved and resilient politician. It’s the story of race, power, sex and drugs, and a man who is the star of one of the most fascinating and bizarre chapters of American politics.
WaPo said this about the HBO documentary:
But what “Nine Lives” has that the great print profiles lack is a delicious collection of archival footage from the 1960s and ’70s. Here’s a young, slim, goateed, dashiki-clad man the newspapers called “Marion S. Barry, Negro militant” at community meetings, asking angry young Washingtonians to rise up with him against police brutality, “dig it.” As Jesse Jackson says in the movie, Barry was “a marching, picketing, protesting, Freedom Riding young man who had that fire.”
-
DCentric Picks: Emancipation Day Great Debate
What: D.C. Emancipation Day Great Debate When: 6 p.m., Saturday Where: The Lincoln Theatre, 1215 U St. NW Cost: Free, but you should register here. Why you should go: The debate is just one of a number of D.C. Emancipation Day activities taking … Read More
- Anniversary of MLK Assassination And The Riots That Changed D.C.
- Do We Still Need Black History Month? (Poll)
-
Art Driving Gentrification?
The District is funding a series of art events housed in vacant spaces in downtown Anacostia. The idea behind Lumen8Anacostia: to make use of under-used spaces, and also spark some much-needed economic growth in Anacostia. The Ward 8 neighborhood has … Read More
- Asian Shopkeepers And The Economics Of Improving Corner Stores
- Marion Barry: Breaking Down Race, Plexiglass And 'Dirty Shops'