Yes I did post this article just a month ago, but since it's coming up soon, this Sunday in fact, I thought a freindly reminder wouldn't be out of place But first, as some of you may recall, I wrote an item in January about The Black Cinema House in Chicago, a newly established screening space, in operation since this fall, devoted to the exhibition and discussion of independent and rarely seen black cinema in all its forms - HERE. Among the films the House has screened recently were the groundbreaking experimental 1958 classic Cry of Jazz, which was introduced by Northwestern University professor Jacqueline Stewart, Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer - Your Life Is Calling...
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