W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Give It To Them Queen 2015: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Hidden Colors, Bill Cosby, Empire, Ferguson, Social Media & MORE!!!~1-29-2015

    

 

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: "Give It To Them Queen 2015: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Hidden Colors, Bill Cosby, Empire, Ferguson, Social Media & MORE!!!"~1/29/2015

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"I wrote the book because black women in America have been protected and insulated against certain kinds of criticism and examination."~Sis. Shahrazad Ali

"The black man has been critiqued, the white woman and white man have been critiqued. Everybody but us (black women). I decided that we needed a self-examination of ourselves to find out what is our share of the problems in the black community."~Sis. Shahrazad Ali 


"Whenever there is a breakdown in a relationship, both parties are responsible. But we have always said it was the black man's fault. We have always said that he left us, abandoned the children, beat us and killed us and did a lot of other things to us. My book tries to examine what happens before we get to that point."~Sis. Shahrazad Ali

About Sis. Shahrazad Ali

2013 W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Artivist Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, In Demand Lecturer, Social Commentator, Regular 
Guest On HLN Dr. Drew On Call Show & Author Of The Controversial, Groundbreaking, & Best Selling Nu Black 
Classic 'The Blackman's Guide To Understanding The Blackwoman'

Some Highlights From The INterview...

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Bill Cosby Sex Scandal~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/3CPRmnwbFRQ


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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Black People, Social Media & Cell Phones~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/-0OhFvLyB-8

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali on FOX's "Empire" TV Show~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/J779f5GEk3w

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Selma Movie~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/HrM_MYCTqrk

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Trayvon Martin & Stand Your Ground~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/jMpsCC0WwgE

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Hidden Colors Movie & The REal Black On Black Crime~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/8Qhl27YoCl0

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali: Lincoln Didn't Free The Slaves~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/K8iZcR1xClM

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Oprah Winfrey~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/rOQ-YfCVyKo

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Good White Folks~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/KPjZePDxCVI

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On The Functions Of White Supremacy & Cuba~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/XzD9eNlOoUA

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali: "We Didn't Teach Our Children Who The Enemy Was..."~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/k1c_qJ2Byx0

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Sis. Shahrazad Ali On Elijah Muhammad & Malcolm X~1/29/2015

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http://youtu.be/8hlXbkkQSZM

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Also Check Out on W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: 
"The Revival: Sis. Shahrazad Ali Interview"~11/10/2013

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http://youtu.be/JnpC71u6X2o

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Harpo's Revenge: Willard Pugh Talks 'Color Purple,' Oprah & 'Hollywood'~12/25/2010

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV: Harpo's Revenge: Willard Pugh Talks 'Color Purple,' Oprah & 'Hollywood'~12/25/2010

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http://youtu.be/K26M98ZPXJE

About The Guest & Show

Born June 16, 1959, in Memphis, TN, Willard E. Pugh is one of the most underrated and underutilized character actors of his generation.  You probably recognize his face in some of your favorite actors' favorite movies...Whether he is playing the seemingly emasculated yet likable Harpo in the classic The Color Purple, the nefariously comical and audacious record exec Trustus in CB4 or the bombastic, corrupt and audacious Mayor Kuzak of Detroit in the Robocop movie franchise, Bro. Willard proves time and time again in his invaluable sliver of time shared on the silver screen that it is the quality of the performance and not quantity of lines that wins over an audience and that separates the amateurs from the immortals.

In our nearly marathon conversation conducted on Christmas Day 2010, W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Radio discussed his rise from his humble beginnings in Memphis, TN, and into the stratosphere with the chance of the lifetime he got when he was picked to act in arguably one of the greatest African American themed films ever created with a tour de force ensemble cast, a cast which also featured a relative newcomer and a popular regional Chicago talk show host at that time, Oprah Winfrey.

Willard E. Pugh leaves no stones unturned and no bridges untorched in discussing the triumphs and disappointments of his career...The highs are really high while the lows are really low...He mercilessly offers with brilliant comedic timing and riveting social commentary, insight that Richard Pryor or a Chris Rock could enjoy, his thoughts on some very touchy and controversial subjects including...

* A scathing critique of the Hollywood Machine

* The real truth about the Oscars

*The disturbing things not shown on the The Color Purple 25th Anniversary Special produced by The
Oprah Show

*The Backlash from the African American Community concerning The Color Purple release and the short
term and long term consequences of that the backlash.

*The movie Precious

*Tyler Perry and his business practices


AND SO MUCH MORE!!!*The State of Black Hollywood 2010

*The history of Black entertainment in America

*Pres. Barack Obama

*His Dream Movie Project

And check out the filmography of this unsung acting legend...He got cred yo!!!

    1982 : Divided We Fall .... Runaway Slave
    1984 : Toy Soldiers .... Ace
    1985 : Moving Violations .... Jeff Roth
    1985 : The Hills Have Eyes Part II .... Foster
    1985 : Stand Alone .... Macombers
    1985 : The Color Purple .... Harpo
    1986 : Blue City .... Leroy
    1986 : Native Son .... Gus
    1987 : Amazon Women on the Moon .... Speaking Cop (segment "Video Date")
    1987 : Made in Heaven .... Guy Blanchard / Brian Dalton
    1988 : Traxx .... Deeter
    1990 : RoboCop 2 .... Mayor Kuzak
    1991 : Guyver .... Col. Castle
    1991 : A Rage in Harlem (A Rage in Harlem) .... Claude X
    1991 : Ambition .... Freddie
    1992 : Eddie Presley .... Nick
    1993 : CB4 .... Trustus
    1994 : Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter .... Jason
    1995 : Under the Hula Moon .... Duane
    1997 : Air Force One .... White House Communications Officer
    1998 : High Freakquency .... Dale
    1998 : Progeny (Progeny) .... Eric Davidson
    1998 : Spoiler .... Bounty #2
    2000 : Today's Life .... The PR Man
    2000 : Up Against Amanda .... Officer Wharton
    2001 : The Big Leaf Tobacco Company .... Mr. Franklin
    2007 : Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy
    2010 :Kings Of The Evening

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W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV:"Before Trayvon: The Murder & Cover-Up of Johnnie Mae Chappell"

 

W.E. A.L.L. B.E. TV:"Before Trayvon: The Murder & Cover-Up of Johnnie Mae Chappell"

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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
~Frederick Douglass

Featured Guests...

1.) Shelton Chappell (Johnnie Mae Chappell's Son)

2.) Sgt. Lee Cody

 Former police detectives Lee Cody (left) and Don Coleman visit the Civil Rights Memorial, which contains the name of Johnnie Mae Chappell.

C. Lee Cody Jr. was a detective sergeant with the sheriff's office when Johnnie Mae Chappell was killed. Lee says the sheriff's department did not assign anyone to investigate the murder, so he and his partner took on the case themselves.

Lee says he and his partner arrested the suspects, got full confessions and found the murder weapon. Still, Lee says charges against three of the four men were completely dropped. "Here is a black woman gunned down in cold blood on a dark, lonely highway, and none of them cared. We lived in a racist city and a racist town run by racist people," Lee says.

Outraged, Lee demanded answers from his bosses. Soon after, he was fired and his life began to unravel. "I got a job driving a garbage truck, and I wasn't a very good husband, and I drank too much," he says. "I was eaten up with it, there's no doubt about it."

Read more:  

http://www.oprah.com/world/Martin-Luther-King-Jrs-Legacy/13#ixzz2ahRN5i5f

Get & Read Bro. Lee Cody's book abut the Johnnie Mae Chappell murder and coverup entitled "The 14th Denial":

 http://www.lulu.com/shop/lee-cody/the-14th-denial/hardcover/product-15107881.html;jsessionid=13B9F2C312F990D100E82DB89632A5E7

3.) Sis. Ruth Monteiro (Johnnie Mae Chappell)

About Johnnie Mae Chappell, Her Murder & The Cover-Up:

On March 23, 1964, race riots raged in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Johnnie Mae Chappell, a 35-year-old wife and mother of 10 children, was not anywhere near downtown that evening, though. Instead, she was frantically searching the roadside near her home in Pickettville, the poor all-black neighborhood in the Jacksonville area, with two neighbors, hoping to find the wallet she had lost on her way home (Hastings, 2003). Unfortunately, Chappell would lose her life to senseless violence that night simply because of the color of her skin.

While Chappell and her neighbors were searching the edge of the road with a flashlight, a car carrying four white men approached. The men, who had been incensed by radio reports about the riots, were driving around looking to "get" a black person. When they saw three black individuals on the side of the road, the man seated in the front passenger seat pulled up a gun and fired. Chappell was struck in the stomach by a single bullet and died on the way to the hospital (Hastings, 2003).

As was the case with the killing of many African Americans during the Jim Crow era, Chappell's murder received very little attention. The local media mentioned her death only as a side note in stories about the riots that focused mainly on white citizens who had been injured (Murphy, 2005). Also, according to the detectives who eventually investigated and solved Chappell's murder, nobody within the local police force had ever been assigned to investigate the crime. Instead, detectives Lee Cody and Donald Coleman cracked the case somewhat by chance (Hastings, 2003).

In August 1964, five months after the murder, Cody and Coleman were approached on two separate occasions by a young man named Wayne Chessman, who said he wanted to help the detectives. The detectives were initially unsure what Chessman was talking about, but after seeing Chessman leave their second encounter in a car that matched the one that carried Chappell's murderer, the detectives decided to question Chessman at the police station. During the subsequent interview, Chessman provided a detailed account of Chappell's murder and implicated 3 other men: Elmer Kato, the driver of the car, James Alex Davis, who sat in the back seat with Chessman that night, and J.W. Rich, the shooter (Hastings, 2003). Under questioning, Kato and Rich confessed to the crime, although Rich claimed that it was an accident (Mitchell, 2010).

After Cody and Coleman completed their investigation, Chessman, Kato, Rich, and Davis were arrested and charged with first-degree murder. However, the threads of justice began to unravel at that point. The two detectives claim that they were berated by their commanding officer for investigating the crime, and they were subsequently removed from the case. Additionally, the murder weapon mysteriously disappeared. Despite the loss of evidence, the state proceeded with its case, and an all-white jury found Rich guilty of a lesser charge of manslaughter. This was a surprising result, given that many whites avoided any punishment for killing black men, women, and children throughout the Jim Crow era. Rich was sentenced to ten years in prison as a result of his conviction, but he only served three years before being released. All charges against the other three men were dropped (Hastings, 2003).

While her killers went largely unpunished for their crime, Chappell's family was torn apart following her death. The eldest five children, all daughters from Chappell's first marriage, were sent to live with various relatives on their father's side of the family. Authorities removed the five youngest children, all boys, from their father Willie's care and split them up among foster families. For over 30 years, the children had very little information about what had really happened to their mother. On the 32nd anniversary of her death, Chappell's children finally heard the story of what happened to their mother when Cody approached them at a family reunion (Hastings, 2003).

Cody and Coleman also had their lives permanently altered by the Chappell case. The detectives claim that their pursuance of the truth caused them to be demoted and, shortly thereafter, fired for insubordination. Neither man ever worked in law enforcement again, but neither ever forgot the Chappell case (Murphy, 2005).

Although the state provided little justice in the murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell, she will not be one of the forgotten or unknown. Chappell's name was added to the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2000 (Mitchell, 2010). Also, in 2005, the Florida legislature honored Chappell by renaming a section of the highway where she was murdered the "Johnnie Mae Chappell Parkway" (Murphy, 2005). The memory of Chappell serves as a powerful reminder of the hatred and brutal violence that robbed so many individuals of their lives solely because of their race.

Neil Baumgartner

Staff Docent

Jim Crow Museum

November 2012

References

Hastings, D. (2003, December 1). Johnnie Mae Chappell: Long road to truth. The Associated Press.

Retrieved from http://injusticebusters.org/2003/Chappell_Jacksonville.htm.

Mitchell, J. (2010, November 18). Former detective says 1964 murder can be prosecuted [Journey to Justice].

Retrieved from http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/tag/johnnie-mae-chappell/.

Murphy, D. (2005, September 7). Seeking justice for a racial killing, 40 years later:

The Johnnie Mae Chappell case could become the latest in a wave of the South's "atonement trials". Dateline NBC on Dateline. Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8670054/ns/dateline_nbc/t/seeking-justice-racial-killing-years-later/.

More Info On The Johnnie Mae Chappell Case:

Former detective says 1964 murder can be prosecuted

http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/tag/lee-cody/

Filming the Johnnie Mae Chappell Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOUqh6RSujU

The 1964 Murder of Johnnie Mae Chappell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxwmQXxZ5xo

Remembering Johnnie Mae Chappell

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Remembering-Johnnie-Mae-Chappell

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Support The W.E. A.L.L. B.E. Movement!!!

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