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May 1st is International Worker’s Solidarity Day, and to celebrate, we’re taking a trip to Cabbagetown! This industrial neighborhood east of downtown Atlanta originally consisted of the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill and the housing built for the factory workers. While Cotton had always been King in the South, that generally referred to the agricultural production of the plant. The actual milling of cotton, the process of turning plant fiber into cloth, was done in the Northern states and even overseas. Continue reading ‘Explore Georgia Labor History in Cabbagetown!’
After the Fall is a documentary film offering an intimate portrait of a special group of teens and young adults in Romania. They are the long–term survivors of the pediatric HIV/AIDS epidemic that swept the impoverished eastern European nation in the late 1980s and early 90s as communist dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu’s reign of terror came to an end. Over 12,000 cases of HIV infection among children were recorded. These innocent victims contracted the virus mainly in state-run hospitals and orphanages, where they had been abandoned by parents who were encouraged to leave their children in the care of the government when they could not afford to look after them. Continue reading ‘Romania Documentary Sneak Preview!’
With the Major League Baseball All-Star Game set to take place this week in Los Angeles, California, we take a look back at some of the greatest fights in recent baseball history! This loving paean to the ineffective man-to-man combat skills of professional athletes features current major leaguers Jeff Weaver, Chan Ho Park, and Pedro Martinez, plus classic Old Skoolers like Dave Winfield, Mo Vaughn, Armando Benitez, Burt Campenella, Robin Ventura and Nolan Ryan throwing down on the mound! Celebrate the savage joy of the National Pastime with TomorrowPictures.TV!
On June 4th of this year the former basketball and life coach John Wooden passed away of natural causes. Wooden is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (inducted in 1961) and as coach (inducted in 1973). He was the first person ever enshrined in both categories. John Wooden was born in 1910 in the town of Hall, Indiana and was a three time All-State selection in high school. After graduating in 1928, he attended Purdue University and led the Boilermakers to the 1932 National Championship. While at Purdue, he was the first player ever to be named a three-time consensus All-American. In 1942, during World War II, he joined the Navy. He served for nearly three years and left the service as a lieutenant. After the 1947–48 season, Wooden became the head coach at UCLA. Wooden immediately displayed the rarest quality a coach can effect: “instant turnaround” for an undistinguished, faltering program. From the late 1940’s to the mid 1970’s Wooden and UCLA won 620 games in 27 seasons and 10 NCAA titles during his last 12 seasons, including seven in a row from 1967 to 1973. Wooden was named NCAA College Basketball’s “Coach of the Year” in 1964, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, and 1973. In all his years as a coach he never made more than $35,000.00 a year and never asked for a raise. He turned down an offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers in 1975. This is Wooden’s true legacy. Life was always bigger than basketball. Wooden made men not basketball stars (although two of the greatest players of all time laced them up for him, Bill Walton and Kareem Abdul Jabbar).Wooden by his own standards and accounts was a success, “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming.” Here’s to success and the long influential life of John Wooden. Practice makes perfect people at TomorrowPictures.TV
World Cup Fever, have you caught it??? It got the kids at TomorrowPictures.TV talking about who was the greatest football player of all time. With all due respect to Ronaldinho, David Beckham and Franz Beckenbauer, the answer can only be Edson Arantes do Nascimento. WHO?? Well, you can call him Pele… In current world football, the World Cup’s first round is in full swing in South Africa. To get you ready for the matches, here’s Soccer’s Greatest Goals, led off by our Man Pele on TomorrowPictures.TV!
The NBA- It’s Fannnnnnnntastic! Yeah, the much-hyped Kobe - Bron Bron matchup fell through, but that just means the Kobester can win his team an NBA championship against the hated Boston Celtics and cement his place in hoops history! It’s Lakers vs Celttics, and here at TomorrowPictures.TV we’re geeked to see how the drama plays out! In the meantime, here’s our favorite Celebrity Chef to the Stars, Stephanie Goldfarb, talking to the people at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on the night when Kobe and MJ met for the very last time!
Dennis Hopper, star of stage, screen and many a Hollywood party, has passed away at the age of 74. In this Special Episode of Medic, a babyfaced Dennis Hopper makes his television debut as a young Epileptic who faces ignorance and discrimination from townspeople who don’t understand the nature of his condition. Medic was a groundbreaking television show that debuted in America in 1954 and ran for two years on NBC. Other television programs had taken place in hospitals before, but none had ever shown a realistic and medically accurate portrayal of disease and the people who fought to cure it. Medic, although shortlived, was deeply influential on the score of hospital dramas that would follow, and its style can still be felt today on network programs like House and Grey’s Anatomy. Watch Part 2 on TomorrowPictures.TV!
The 1940 Selective Service Act prohibited racial discrimination in the American Military, and 885,000 black soldiers would serve in the armed forces during World War 2. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared Oct. 9, 1940, that blacks would be allowed to join the Army Air Corps and be eligible for officer training schools. The McCloy Commission found that riots in Army training camps were caused by white racism at the local level, regardless of policies handed down from the federal government. Racial conflict was a threat to wartime unity and black leaders wanted a “Double V” campaign for victory over foreign dictators AND domestic racism, so Chief of Staff George Marshall ordered famed Hollywood movie producer Frank Capra’s Army film unit to make a documentary film that would teach racial tolerance and promote wartime unity. Capra selected Stuart Heisler to direct the film, and Carlton Moss to write the script. In January, 1944, the Army began to show the film, The Negro Soldier to black troops, and after February it was shown also to white troops. In April, the 35mm print was released to the general public. The 16mm print of the film was shown in schools and civic auditoriums, and the United Auto Workers used the film to improve racial integration on the assembly line. Celebrate Memorial Day with TomorrowPictures.tv!
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WARNING: The following video is shocking. It may upset some viewers. Tune in at your own risk.The Iraqis placed a rope around Saddam Hussein's neck and hung him until he was dead. That deed should've caused great celebration, not only in Iraq and America, but in most places where liberty shines i...
Mukuru is a Slum Village in Kenya, just outside the east African nation's capital city of Nairobi. They call it a "Slum Village" with no sense of irony, and to the outsider, the emphasis would seem firmly on Slum. The statistics are so wretched as to become ...
Hip Hop is Dead! Long Live Hip Hop! In Episode Three of Hip Hop World, we profile young up and comer Xxtra tha Yung Eagle! Born and raised on the east side of Chicago, Michael Anderson Jr, aka Xxtra, is a born performer, showcasing his ta...
