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Make Mine Freedom, an early Hannah Barbara cartoon produced by Harding College in 1948, is Cold War propaganda promoting capitalism and critiquing the Soviet Union. After an introductory explanation of the concept of freedom, four men representing labor, management, politics and farmers argue until a salesman steps in, peddling bottles of “Ism” (Communism) and claiming that it will cure everyone’s ills. A man who has been eavesdropping from a park bench approaches and argues against the salesman’s pitch. Will Capitalism win out over the evils of Communism? Watch Make Mine Freedom to find out! Happy July 4th from TomorrowPictures.TV!
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Lena Horne was beautiful, talented, smart and driven. According to author James Gavin, she was also bitter, haunted, and ultimately disappointed with the way her life turned out. Gavin’s biography of the singer, “Stormy Weather”, traces her life from the projects of Brooklyn in 1917 through the pinnacle of her life as a headlining entertainer and member of the “black bourgeoisie”. Throughout her life she fought racism where ever she found it, and ultimately became one of the most respected and beloved women in America. Ms. Horne died at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Sunday at the age of 92. Here’s the lovely lady singing one of her many hits, ”That Man of Mine”. Rest in Peace…
Culture is a system of symbols that is learned and shared through generations of a social group. Culture is a process that influences what people perceive and guides people’s interactions with each other. Culture is the prism through which we view ourselves. In America, like perhaps no other nation on the planet, cultural change happens swiftly and from many different directions, and managing cultural growth can be one of our most challenging tasks as a society. In celebration of Cinco de Mayo, we thought we’d revisit a UCLA lecture series on the growing challenges of health care in a more Latin America. TomorrowPictures.TV is proud to present Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, Professor of Medicine and Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, speaking to students at the David Geffen School of Medicine on Defining Health Policy for the Latino Community in America. Watch 
Freedom Day is a South African public holiday that commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on April 27 in 1994. Meanwhile, across the rest of the Mother Continent, the statistics can be mind numbing: the life expectancy in Mukuru, Kenya is 40 years, the population density is 50,000 people per square mile, the poverty line $1 a day. Yet beyond the numbers are the people: a sea of bright, vibrant, open faces, working for a life of dignity and respect. One of those people working hard each day to change the emphasis of Mukuru from Slum to Village is Moses Wahor. This is his story. Moses Wahor was born and raised in Mukuru, one of 20 slum villages that ring Nairobi. He lives in a 10′x10′ corrugated metal shack with eight of his siblings, and considers it fortunate that his family has a roof beneath which to dwell. They, like all of their neighbors, are squatters, subject to eviction at any time. Most of the residents you see in Mukuru are children or young adults- half the population is under the age of 25, and the adults lucky enough to have jobs work as laborers in the city or in factories outside the Slum Villages for $2 a day. Family earnings are low and there are not enough schools; as a result, children are frequently seduced into prostitution and drug trafficking, activities that lead to HIV/AIDS infection. These children, many of them HIV orphans themselves, are the next generation of Africans facing a grim future if something is not done to change their lives.
While the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 resulted in the destruction of the Iron Curtain and a tidal surge of personal freedoms to the peoples of the former Eastern Bloc nations, it also resulted in much economic and cultural upheaval. Peoples from various ethnic and religious groups that had been forced together by political mapmakers suddenly found themselves free to create their own societies from scratch. This was a wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but as we in America know all too well, freedom is messy, confused, and sometimes violent. As the cultures of Eastern Europe reintegrate with those of the West, the forces of Fascism and Communism continue to clash, particularly among the youth who don’t remember the days of the Cold War. Uno Di Noi (One of Us) is a short film documenting the clash of Anti-Fascist with Neo-Nazis, and the resultant deaths of seven young activists. The filmmakers show the creation of seven graffiti murals dedicated to the memories of the deceased, and calls for the continuation of the fight against political and military oppression. Fight the Power 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...
