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'Defined Lines'--A Feminist Parody of Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines'

LawRevue
The Law Revue girls want to define those supposedly "blurred lines". Enjoy our parody of Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke. 
Vocals: Zoe Ellwood, Olivia Lubbock & Adelaide Dunn
Lyrics: Adelaide Dunn
Video credit to Milon Tesiram, Chillbox Creative (https://www.facebook.com/ChillboxCrea...)
Audio engineering: Rich Bryan

LYRICS

Every bigot shut up (x 2)
Hey hey hey (x 3)

Boy you'd better quit all your sexist ways 
So hear our manifesto of the modern age.
It's time to undermine
The masculine confines
Coz we don't wanna grind, 
Gri-ii-iind.

You think that you're so slick,
Let me emasculate ya!
Because your precious dick
Can't beat my vibrator.
We're feelin' the frustration
From all the exploitation.
Prepare for your castration.

(Chorus)
So we can fuck this man's world,
With all its bullshit,
Girls don't deserve it.
We ain't good girls:
We are scholastic,
Smart and sarcastic,
Not fucking plastic.
Listen mankind!
If you wanna get nasty,
Just don't harass me: 
You can't just grab me.
That's a sex crime!
Yeah we don't want it -
It's chauvinistic.
You're such a bigot!

What you see on tv
Doesn't speak equality,
It's straight up misogyny.
Don't want you to come on my face!

You think you're hunky (hey hey hey)
You wanna hug me (hey hey hey)
Don't you mean fuck me?

One thing I ask of you:
Don't assume that we all just wanna screw.
Gotta respect me for me to be your boo.
We don't want no scrubs, no we don't approve.
Need a universal role reversal,
In real life not a dress rehearsal.
Gotta resist all the gender roles,
Time to put misogyny on parole,
Put exploitation on probation,
Time for you to witness our liberation!
There's more to life than penetration,
And sexual discrimination.
So tonight we ignite our civil rights,
Resist chauvinism,
Win the fight,
Coz you're livin large just like a montage
Of you and your friends actin' out Entourage.
But we ain't whores to do your household chores,
To make you a sandwich when we're on all fours.
From history to herstory.
Know you got some opinions that we don't agree.
Need to call my sister Joan of A-R-C,
Bake a feminist cake, Antoinette Marie.
Yeah, guys, we got spies, 
Know all you wanna do is fertilise, 
But avert your eyes from my thighs,
Never tell a bitch that she gotta drop a size.
You wanna box gap? Show me your six pack.
Wanna landing strip? You'd better get ripped.
I apologise if you think my lines are crass,
Tell me how it feels to get verbally harassed.

(Chorus)
So we can fuck this man's world,
With all its bullshit,
Girls don't deserve it.
We ain't good girls:
We are scholastic,
Smart and sarcastic,
Not fucking plastic.
Listen mankind!
If you wanna get nasty,
Just don't harass me: 
You can't just grab me.
That's a sex crime!
Yeah we don't want it -
It's chauvinistic.
You're such a bigot!

For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION | 'Welcome Home' Ep. 2 of 8 (dir. Stacey Muhammad)

WildSeed Film

Season 1, Episode 2 of 8 of For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION. 
A soul-stirring dramatic series about a father's attempt to repair his broken family after being released from prison, starring Rob Morgan and Julito McCullum with Tim Reid and Jacinto Taras Riddick.

Ask a Slave: The Web Series | 'Meet Lizzie Mae' (ep. 1)

Ask a Slave: The Web Series
Ask A Slave is a comedy web series directed by Jordan Black based on the actress' time working as a living history character at the popular historic site, George Washington's Mount Vernon. All questions and interactions are based on true events.

Real Questions. Real Comedy.
Learn more @ www.AskASlave.com

Director: Jordan Black
Writer: Azie Mira Dungey
Director of Photography: Ryan Moulton
Editor: Ryan Moulton
Sound: Johnny Shyrock
Animator: Jamie Noguchi
Production Manager: Pamela J Peters

Lizzie Mae: Azie Mira Dungey
Featuring: Meegan Kellerher, Ray Baker, Colleen Dodson Baker, Johnny Shryock, Pamela J. Peters, Michael Rachlis, and Rosey Blair

GlobalGirl Media Explores Food Justice in Los Angeles

GlobalGirl Media
GlobalGirl Media goes shopping in two very different L.A. neighborhoods. The results? Two very different bills and an appreciation of how hard it is to eat healthy.

Beat Making Lab Interlude: 4 Ways to Take Your Art International

with the Apple Juice Kid and Pierce Freelon of the Beat Making Lab

The Pauli Murray Project Exhibit 'Still Walking for Justice' Opens at Duke

Duke University
A new exhibit on campus honors nine local women involved in Civil Rights-era protests. "Still Walking for Justice" is on display at the Franklin Humanities Institute in Bay 4 of Smith Warehouse and is open to the public. The exhibit was created by Duke Human Rights Center's Pauli Murray Project with assistance from students.

Hip-Hop Meets Labor Day: Jasiri X's New Video 'We Coming'

Jasiri X:
"We Coming" was inspired by the Dream Defenders, BYP100, and the movement of fast food and low wage workers to get $15 an hour and the right to form a union. "We Coming" was shot on location in Milwaukee, WI during the 8/29 Strike that took place in over 50 cities around the country. "We Coming" was produced by GM3, shot by Paradise Gray, and based off a chant by Artist and Activist Jazz Hudson. Young people are rising up all over the country and the world, believe me when I say, "WE COMING"! LYRICS

Verse 1

We organize stakes is high, in every hood and state we ride
Defend the dream the winning team Malcolm said by any means
50 years since Dr. King
School of hard knocks took shots in the boxing ring
Studied and we got degrees
Feeling like the Dr's seeds the block is locked we got the keys
We got our shot cocked and squeezed
Hit the mark watch us lead
Prophecy born in an economy of poverty
Reagan era policies and hustler psychologies
Street corner pharmacies, car trunk armories
New Jack City Carter dreams yellow tape marks the scene
Mass indoctrination into Mass incarceration
When your school is like a prison every class is occupation
We try and say its wrong they wanna pass it off as hating
If America is beautiful
Why she wanna freeze us in place just like medusa do
We came to turn on the lights this is our future too
Who is you we new improved
Movement we were meant to move its what we were created for
We believe we are the ones we've been waiting for

Verse 2
We Fight for 15 Fight for this Dream
You and I unified to strike against the machine
This right wing regime got the country on lean
Cause the richest companies get the biggest subsidies
But wanting me to leave making $7.25
Coming home to my family and staring in hungry eyes
No not another day cause our movement's coming alive
And I'm on the front lines so you know I'm coming for mine
Chicago, Milwaukee rise
New York to the West Side
St. Louis, KC and Detroit is ready to ride
All we got is our lives our dignity and our pride
Our enemy is the lies
The remedy is our energy when we see its the time
To turn up in these streets so deep that police can't see the concrete
Shut em down we gonna show em who really run the town
We came up from the underground them tables done spun around
Young people of color found the crown we were created for
We believe we are the ones we've been waiting for

For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION / Episode 1 of 8 (dir. Stacey Muhammad)

StaceyMFilms
Season 1, Episode 1 of 8 | For Colored Boys, REDEMPTION. 

A soul-stirring dramatic series about a father's attempt to repair his broken family after being released from prison, starring Rob Morgan and Julito McCullum with Tim Reid and Jacinto Taras Riddick. with Lauren Hooper, Nashawn Kearse, Kai Muhammad, Jas Anderson, Ryan Stephenson, and Brittany Chance.

Created, Written and Directed by Stacey Muhammad for Wildseed Films
Executive Produced by Isaiah Washington
Executive Produced by Marc Lamont Hill
Produced by Michael Boogie Pinckney (Black Noise Media) 
Produced by Lisa Cynical Smith (Bucktown USA) and The NY Frequency.
Starring: Rob Morgan and Julito McCullum with Tim Reid and Jacinto Taras Riddick
Cast: Lauren Hooper, Nashawn Kearse, Jas Anderson, Lamar K. Cheston, Ephriam Fetti Benton, Brittany Chance, Kai Muhammad, Tekomin Wiliams, Brandhyze Stanley, Ryan Stephenson, Krystal Farris. 
Guest appearances by Stephen Hill, Corey Roberts and Prince Po.

Director of Photography: J Anders Urmacher
Edited by: Max Papadop
Casting Director: Tiandra Gayle
Art Direction: Phillip Shung
Music Director: General Steele of Bucktown, USA
Unit Production Manager: Oveta Clinton
Wardrobe Supervisor: Danielle Miller
Hair and Makeup: Jewel Whinfield 

www.forcoloredboysseries.com

Shot on RED, SAG AFTRA, MADE IN NY

From Buying to Renting: A Housing Shift in America

NewYorkTimesVideo
A Loss of Community: Neighborhoods across the country are being transformed, as houses built for homeowners are turned into rental properties. Residents of one such community in Memphis, Tenn., discuss the changes.

Walmart Workers Announce Labor Day Deadline for Company to Respond to Wage Demands

Portside
The growing group of OurWalmart workers across the country are demanding justice and a decent wage. They have given the giant retailer a Labor Day deadline to meet their demands or face intensified and widespread actions.