Looking Black – Radio One Celebrates Black History Month

Since the Superbowl we’ve been inundated with commercials for the video Game Dante’s Inferno.

By now, everyone’s seen Shaft and Superfly, the ultimate blaxploitation films, but the relatively shortlived film genre produced hundreds of low budget action and comedy films that allowed filmmakers like Spike Lee and Robert Townsend to have successful careers in film.

Take a look at the trailers for a few blaxploitation films that are essential viewing!

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Although it wasn’t really considered a blaxploitation film, Melvin Van Peebles’ magnum opus blew

Veteran Actor, Antonio “Huggy Bear” Fargas has joined forces with husband and wife team, Bill and Catherine Owens-Hermann, in their effort to raise awareness of global illiteracy. Their book, Safari’s Song, will be brought to life in a performance reading, narrated by Antonio Fargas.

As Black History Month begins to draw to a close, Fonzworth Bentley invites all of you to sit for a little “Fireside Chat.”

The NAACP recently elected their youngest Board Chairman Roslyn M. Brock. Read her story here.

Shani Davis has taken the 2010 Winter Olympics by storm. If you didn’t know who he was before, now you do. Get to know the Winter Olympics phenom here.

Tyler Perry is by all means, a Renaissance man. He’s an actor, director, screenwriter, producer and author. Read his rags-to-riches American success story. Watch video of his account of fame and success.

Have you ever had an invasive surgery and had to be stitched up afterward? There are so many complications that can happen from surgery, that Tony Hansberry a student at the Darnell Cookman School of Medical Arts has invented on way to make it a little more comfortable. Read his story here.

Huey Percy Newton was born on February 17, 1942 in Monroe, Louisiana. He was co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, an African-American organization established to promote Black Power, civil rights and self-defense.