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Keivonn Woodard had played Sam on the tv show The Last of Us with Lamar Johnson. His character is the little brother who ends up giving that difficult decision to Henry. What I found so enduring about Keivonn was that the staff on the Last of Us had learned and picked up a bit of ASL for him and let him use ASL while on the show. I think it was amazing that they would cast someone who is actually deaf for the role of the little brother instead of someone who is just playing the character of a deaf person.

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Lamar Johnson is an actor who was most recently on The Last of Us tv show. He portrays a character named Henry, whose purpose is to keep he and his little brother Sam alive. They cross paths with the main characters Ellie and Joel and have a short journey together. He does an amazing job portraying a character who is the opposite of violent but then is able to fully capture what it would look like when that character is pushed to make a tough split decision.

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Sade had sang live in San Diego in 2015. People still make videos on their social media of her singing, saying that it is so beautiful and inspiring. Her song My Love Is Wider, was loved by many and plenty. All over Tik-Tok, it was taken by storm.

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Sade is a singer/songwriter. One of her most popular songs is "Like A Tattoo" that came out in 1992 in her Love Deluxe album. Her voice is smooth and sultry. Her songs consist of R&B/Soul, Pop, and Jazz.

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Viola Davis is an actress whose performances are absolutely breathtaking. She's had roles in How to Get Away With Murder, The Woman King, Fences, Suicide Squad, The Hunger Games, and The Help.

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Bunky teaches styles such as, tap, african, hip-hop, jazz, and modern. He demonstrates each of his pieces and takes his time to make sure all of his students not only understand the steps but also the meaning behind them. He is a very intelligent man. While in school, he was actually a JD himself, he then decided later on to run his own studio and then finally return back at Jefferson High to direct and lead the Demo Dancers.

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Bunky Williams is a dance teacher and director at Jefferson high school. He is one of the most inspiring people I've ever met. He is patient with all of his students and his choreography is like no other. With every performance the JD2s perform the crowd goes wild.

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Rihanna is indescribable at most times but can be associated with words like, talented, amazing, beautiful, smart, and funny. Her debut song Pon De Replay was released when she was only 17 and became a total hit. From there her music only went up on charts and more recently she came out with savage x fenty, which is her lingerie line and her fenty beauty line, which is different kinds of makeup. She had even given birth to her first child and is now pregnant with her second.

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I'm sure just about everyone knows Danai Gurira. She's most famous for her roles in The Walking Dead, Black Panther, and Wakanda Forever. She is truly inspiring. She's 45 years old and was even born on Valentines Day! Her roles consist of playing strong and empowering women. She plays roles of fighters and survivors. Her acting is phenomenal and she is able to capture the essence of her characters perfectly. Using her strong facial expressions, she's able to put the viewer in an out of world experience by making the stories she's in seem so real.

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Josh lane is the lead singer of a band named 'Three Sacred Souls.' He came out with songs like Can I Call You Rose?, Lady Love, and my personal favorite, Weak For Your Love. I love his songs, they feel so enduring and romantic. I feel like they come from a place of true love and contentment. The styles of songs fall under R&B/Soul and I feel like that suits because it sounds like his singing comes straight from his own soul.

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When I first saw Michaela, she was on a dance film, "First Pointe." She and other kids her age were doing a competition performing different kinds of dance. She of course was doing ballet. She was beautiful. I remember the film touching up on the difficulties she faced as a black dancer especially in the world of ballet. Ballet is one of the most mind and body demanding things you can do. As a ballerina, there are certain stereotypes that people push like being white, coming from money, and having the prettiest pink pointe shoes. Michaela pushes all of the boundaries and shows that it is possible to overcome the challenges that come with being a dancer.

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Michaela is a 28 years old ballerina. She went to the school of American Ballet Theater.  She also famously appeared on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. At the age of 17, Michaela performed with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. A year later, she joined the Dutch National Junior Company, as a second-year member and apprentice to the main company. Now at the age of 26, Michaela is now ranked as a soloist.

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Seeing Nina Simone was so cool. I love her music and her voice is so powerful. It made me think of how usually, when you see a powerful moment in black history people will paint it as something that had happened so long ago. Like how all the photos of Martin Luther King jr are all in black and white. But this film has such string and beautiful colors that capture and match how impactful the concerts in Harlem are.

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The overall film was amazing and I feel like it was able to capture moments of when black people were able to push the minds of other people and take themselves out of stereotypes within the music industry. I feel like the music they touched on really changed the game for people and without black people I feel like the music industry wouldn't be the same.

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In the film it was said that, "gentrification isn't an event, it's an intentional choice made by people."
I feel like when people talk of gentrification, they forget or fail to include that it is intentional whether the person is conscious of it or not much like the effects of internalized racism.

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In the film notes we took from the Portland Civil Rights video, I learned about the Black Panthers providing free dental care to young kids. I had made the connection from that with me and other kids getting free dental care while I was at Woodlawn elementary.

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Stokely Carmichael was an activist whose ideas and approach was different from other popular activists but his work was just as impactful.

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The Black Power Mixtape was a documentary type of film made by people from Switzerland. Their goal of the film was to show how America looks from their point of view. In their 1972 section of the film we get to see more of Angela Davis. While incarcerated, she was interviewed by Tony Brown where she is asked about her thoughts of the Black Panthers Violence. She said, "because of the way this society is organized, because of the violence that exists on the surface everywhere, you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions. You have to expect things like that as reactions." I feel like her answer would've been so obvious, that of course with an up-bringing from violence, it would only be counteracted with the same energy. But the answer was not obvious and for reasons such as people only thinking of why someone would be violent instead of how violence was inflicted on black people in the first place. How that black people's violence was a way of protection against white people's violence.

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After having a class discussion going over different artists album covers I got to analyze a cover from an artist of my choosing. I chose The Internet, a band that has a lot of slow, more r&b types of songs. At first glance, I just thought the album cover was cool. The bright orange background, baggy clothes, and the many different facial expressions. I had seen it as just a good shot for the album but after speaking with Dr. Washington, he helped me come to the conclusion that after so many years of black people having to conform to other people's standards, it's cool that they'd each display any emotion they wanted during the shot of the photo. They also had other things like a "got hos?" hat, sunglasses, and earbuds on in the photo. It makes me think of how white adults would frown on little things like this which just adds to this theme of defiance and self expression.

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During the album art lesson, we had gone over different album covers by various black artists and made observations about them. After going over the given covers, I went to analyze another album that I chose myself. I chose the "Ego Death" album by band artists, The Internet. I wanted to dive deeper into their songs after looking at their album photo so I did some research on the album name to start with. According to Wikipedia, "Ego death is a phase of self-surrender and transition." The songs on their album follows this theme of self-surrender with songs like "just saying/i tried," "for the world," "partners in crime part 3," and "penthouse sky"