Podcasts about Carl Brashear

Welcome back to The Culture Garden Podcast! In this episode, Kieron and Rachel dive into the 2000 film Men of Honor, which chronicles the remarkable journey of Carl Brashear as he strives to become the first African American U.S. Navy Master Diver. Rachel offers a deep dive into the historical context of the time period, shedding light on the intense struggles Carl faced in an environment that wasn't exactly welcoming to someone of his background. The duo discusses Carl's unrelenting determination to achieve his dream despite overwhelming odds, praises the standout performances in the film, and unpacks why it's an underrated gem in cinematic history. They also delve into a thought-provoking conversation about whether the film leans into white savior tropes. As always, thank you for tuning in! Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, and share – y'all be cool how y'all be cool!Instagram: @theculturegardenpodcastE-mail: theculturegardenpodcast@gmail.com

First, all solidarity to the students protesting across the country. We're seeing some truly horrifying things but the strength and conviction is what's needed. The kids are holding it down and we need to do the same for them.  With that said, we're back after a few live shows with the amazing Panama Jackson (The Grio) to talk about what may very well be the last good movie Cuba Gooding Jr. ever made, Men of Honor. Also starring Robert De Niro, it tells the true story of the first Black master diver, Carl Brashear. Panama asks if this even qualifies as a white savior movie, we get into the deleted ending as well as some quality Tubi picks.  Panama is someone we've been fans of for a long time. From his days at The Root and Very Smart Brothers to his amazing podcast Dear Culture over at The Grio, he's always on top of what's happening in Black culture. Give him a follow @panamajackson on all the socials!  Many thanks to folks who joined us live in Brooklyn and Baltimore for our first two live shows! We have one more coming up at Caveat in NY on May 25th. Grab your tickets here to join us in person or on the livestream! 

Part 1 Acomi and Turk182 turn on the microphone while relaxing and sampling a recent acquisition of moonshine whiskey. Before they start, Turk regales Acomi with his encounters of love and heartbreak during his recent trip to Japan. Why he doesn't believe in falling in love with celebrities. And, Dan Harmon's Krapopolis. The topic then shifts to US Navy diver Carl Brashear, the first black United States Navy diver. And, Turk talks about how there are so many "first black person who...". Unfortunately, the podcast is derailed after they stumble across a movie called Maid Droid (2023). Acomi and Turk joke about how quickly the robot maid would become a sex robot. #OMTWF #Acomi #Turk182 #KorovaEntertainment #Japan #Toei #ToeiAnimation #Tokyo #CarlBrashear #MaidDroid2023 Follow Acomi on Twitter at @AcomiDraws and on Instagram at AcomiDraws. Follow Turk182 on Twitter at @Turk182_KE and on Instagram at Turk182_KE.

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This week in anguish: - Ardella's opening statement begins with a sigh, followed by a brief moment of levity where she describes herself as being simply "so darn sad", before things really go downhill and it's hard to tell hockey- and COVID-fatigue apart as she laments, "Really? I had to live through this week just to be back here again?" - This was a really bad month of hockey. So bad that it has engendered comparisons to "the era". We're not ready for that, so instead we enlist a much younger Tony Gallager to take us on a tour of the least successful month in Canuck history, October 1984.  - We hide from the world in the bucolic idyll that was the Utica Comets this week.  - Ardella ties up a few of her own loose ends, with sections on how and why one might win something for the Gipper, a much-needed retrospective on the Captain and Tennille, and the meritorious record of Carl Brashear.    Thanks for listening! This episode supports the Hockey4Youth foundation and HerosHockey.

JP Clement is the CEO of boomtime. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing, digital strategy and product management for companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Madison Square Garden, General Mills, DFS Group Ltd, Johnson & Johnson and National Geographic. JP has worked for and helped companies in both B2C and B2B sectors, and founded three digital strategy and marketing agencies after working for many years on the corporate side of marketing. JP’s passions are analytics, digital products and creating the right strategy at the right time for the right audience.   Questions   Could you share with us just a little bit about your journey, your history, how it is that you got to where you are today? A lot of people are looking at new and creative ways to target new customers or to retarget existing customers, and you're in that marketing sphere, or in that marketing space? So could you maybe share a one or two things that has led to your success, or maybe just trends that you observed regarding marketing, based on what's happening globally? And what would you recommend persons should be doing if they're not doing it already? How can they use LinkedIn to drive new business? Could you share with us what tool, website or app that you use in your business that you absolutely cannot live without? Do you have maybe one or two books that you have read, either currently, or in the past that has had a very, very big impact on you? Could you share with us if you have something that's going on in your life right now, it could be something that you're really excited about? But is it something that you're working on to develop yourself or your people? Where can listeners find you online? Do you have a quote or a saying that during times of adversity or challenge, you'll tend to revert to this quote, it kind of helps to get you refocused or rechannell you into what it is that you're trying to accomplish.   Highlights   JP’s Journey   JP shared that he has always thought that marketing was kind of his calling just because the other choices were too boring and didn't really fit his personality. So he has been doing marketing, as mentioned, for a very long time. He went to college in Paris, France, as you can tell by his accent, and ended up in business school in the US specializing marketing, and then started his journey in marketing a long time ago in the US and he has stayed in the US since. And his marketing journey has taken him many, many different places, he thinks, without bragging, he has probably done every type of marketing by various to do, he started obviously, in traditional marketing, doing couple of things that you could do back in the days with traditional marketing.   He did consumer packaged goods marketing at the beginning of his career, then he moved into direct marketing, database marketing and catalogue marketing. And then he went to the internet side of things in 1998, so quite a while ago when people were still trying to figure out how to do marketing on the internet in a digital space. And he has been doing within digital marketing, probably every type of marketing, by various tools that you can think about. So, anywhere from influencer marketing to word of mouth marketing, to email marketing, and he can go on and on and on and on.   But in the past 10 years, he has basically worked on the agency side, actually, more than 10 years ago, about 14 years now. And before that, he worked on what we would call the client side, and employed a lot of marketing agencies. And when he was moved to the agency side of things, he was always kind of fascinated and curious about how he could make this marketing agency model work better for agencies. He’s very curious by nature, and he always like to figure out how to make things a little bit better, or significantly better. And he thought that marketing agencies were very inefficient, and very hard to scale. And so for about 10 years, he thought about really hard about how to do that. And he came up with some ideas but he started putting in place in 2018, so a couple years ago, and then he came across boomtime and really liked the way they were thinking about the scaling of marketing and it so ended up that the CEO of boomtime was moving on to another venture and needed to replace himself and hired him. So that's kind of where he is, why he is where he is today.   Me: Okay, awesome. That sounds really good, exciting journey. Thank you for sharing that JP. So we're pretty much still going through a pandemic. Where are you located exactly? You said you're in the US.   JP shared that they are in a beautiful and very empty New Mexico. He asked if Yanique was in Jamaica, to which she confirmed. He stated that the US is a big place, it basically touches Arizona, and it’s southwest. They have a border with Mexico but they're in New Mexico. And it's a very empty state. And they've been very impacted by the crisis, but their business was remote before the pandemic hits. And so, they've been actually as a business doing very well and they're very grateful for that.    Trends That Led to Your Success Regarding Marketing and Recommendations   JP stated that just to give a little bit of context, boomtime, they specialize in B2B businesses, so they're helping businesses that sell to other businesses, that's kind of their sweet spot, if you want to call it that. So, those businesses were especially hard hit by the pandemic, because the way they used to market themselves or sell was either on a one to one basis, by visiting offices, or companies or things like that, or by going to trade shows and conferences.   And when the pandemic shut down all these conferences, all of these trade shows, all these places where they would typically do their marketing as a business, their sales, these businesses which tend to be a little bit more conservative in terms of their marketing approaches, were really caught unaware.   And so, they (boomtime) have been doing really well as a business, because they have been able to reach out to all these businesses and show them the value of digital marketing in an age where face to face, in person meetings and trade shows, and conferences, as he mentioned, could not have happened any longer. So they've been doing really well that way.   So you're asking for pointers, but and this is one of them, you can do a lot of your marketing in a digital space without having to go into conferences and trade shows and those gigantic centres where people could aggregate and share germs and viruses.   And so, the digital marketing space is amazing for that, there's all kinds of tools and techniques that you can use that basically create the same amount of leads that you would generate at a trade show at a very reduced price, without the risk of getting infected by COVID-19 on top of it. And also, the beauty of digital marketing is that you can measure pretty much every single thing that that you do, which is not something that you can say of trade shows for instance, or conferences. They typically ask their clients, or prospective clients, what was your ROI on your trade shows? And they don't have an answer, because they never they say, “Okay, this is a place we have to be so we're going to buy our booth, we're going to send people there, and we're going to pay for all of that.” And then that's it, that was always seen as a cost centre and not really as an investment. When they look at digital marketing, they think of it as an investment, and they can prove to them that the return on investment on what they're going to be doing for them is much higher than they could ever expect from more traditional ways of doing marketing.   So, he’s throwing a lot of things at audience. But, they do a lot of education and they talk about how digital marketing can work for B2B businesses, how it can work actually better in this strange world that we live in today, and how they can achieve their sales and marketing goals through digital marketing in a very efficient and high return way.    How To Use LinkedIn to Drive New Business   Me: How can they use LinkedIn? They've heard a little bit about what you've stated as it relates to using digital marketing, there are lots of tools out there that can get your message across to your customers, especially in this space. But how do you use LinkedIn to get new business?   I have people sliding into my DMs sending me random messages about things that I'm not interested in, like, do I want to buy a cryptocurrency? And if I'm interested in stocks and trading, and that's not really my area of interest, so you know, just delete them every time I see them, and they're clearly looking sales.   But you really want to get people who are for your business, people who actually have the same interests, have a need for whatever service or product you're trying to solicit. But not just trying to slide into everyone anyone's DM and just become annoying.   So how can they use LinkedIn to drive new business?   JP shared that that question actually falls squarely into what they do a lot of and what they do the most of probably as an Agency. So they have a tool called Sales Connector that they use at boomtime that basically transforms LinkedIn into pretty much like a what they call it a virtual trade show. And so first, because of the people they're working with, those clients of theirs who are B2B companies, LinkedIn is obviously the prime social network for them and an amazing place to actually network and create those connections that can then turn into leads. But they use a semi-automated system to be more efficient, they create really advanced searches, they call them Boolean searches because they use and or not terms to create a very complex search. But that search identifies the exact targets that you're after as a business. And then they automate the connection messages, they have a way of crafting very interesting connection messages that get you about a 40% to 50% connection rate, which is really high.   But again, the fact that they were very careful about creating searches, but create a pool of targets that is very targeted but very specific to your business. And it's not going to be coming across as spam helps, of course, as well in terms of the connection rate. But they create those messages, and they have a style of messaging, but in a way it creates a more personal rapport.   Although you're trying to do business and you're a business talking to another business, in the sense you also are a person talking to another person. So they make their communications and their messaging very conversational, not salesy at all, and very human and very personal. And so, they created this and then they have all kinds of tools that helps them sort through those connections to decide whether a good lead or a bad lead and then send those connections to a business (CRM) Customer Relationship Management System. And so, create those integrations so those leads can be nurtured and followed up on and, and so on. So they have a whole system in place that helps people basically create those leads and generate those connections on LinkedIn.   App, Website or Tool that JP Absolutely Can’t Live Without in His Business    When asked about an online resource that he cannot live without in his business, JP shared that it's probably a very standard answer, and she has probably have heard that one quite a bit. But because they are remote, and they've had that new office for about a year and a half now, they are incredibly dependent on Slack. But he highly recommends it, it's a very well done product. If and when slack goes down, which doesn't happen very often but it happened about two months ago, or a month ago, it literally shuts down their business, it's their virtual office. This is where they communicate internally, this is also how they communicated with some of their clients and their partners via the guest feature. This is where they post all bunch of very important things for the running of their business, and how they keep in touch with one another.   So Slack, supercritical for them. Zoom, obviously, they wouldn't be able to live and work without Zoom both internally and externally. And they're big fan of Zoom, and more specific to what he does and what his sales team does is Pipedrive. So Pipe Drive is a CRM Customer Relations Management System and it's similar to things like HubSpot and, and salesforce.com, and things like that pardot. But it's way more visual and way easier to use and quite a bit cheaper to some of it. And so they wouldn't be able to survive as a company without PipeDrive. So highly recommended it as well.     Books That Have Had the Greatest Impact on JP    When asked about books that have had a big impact, JP shared that he doesn't read a lot of business books. He doesn't necessarily believe in them that much, or trust in them, but it's just when he reads, he tends to read fiction. But there is a book that has had a big impact on him, especially because as in his career, he has helped a lot of startups. He has worked with several startups, he has run several startups himself, he has started several companies himself. So there is a book, he can't remember the exact title, but it's about the business model canvas, or BMC. And there are several books about it, but the seminal book, and he can visualize it, but he honestly can't remember the actual title, because there is a subtitle to it but it was published probably 10 years ago, or maybe 7 years ago.   It's an amazing book that kind of gives you a way to think about your business, it doesn't necessarily apply just to startup, especially interesting for startups, but also for existing businesses that are launching by reinventing themselves or rethinking their whole strategy. And it's an amazing book that kind of simplifies the whole operation and strategy around the business to literally a one page summary, very visual, very simple, but incredibly powerful tool, and especially because the process that they take you to get to that one page is amazingly helpful he thinks for companies, and he has used it many times. But if anybody does a search in amazon.com, or on Google for business model, Canvas, they'll find the book. And it's very highly recommended for businesses. Applying The Business Model Canvas: A Practical Guide For Small Business by Steven Imke      What JP is Really Excited About Now!   JP shared that there's a lot of things going on right now. He took over boomtime not too long ago, and made a lot of changes and they are evolving very rapidly and growing very rapidly as a company, as an agency. So he constantly has projects in place to try to help his people be better at what they do, give them the tools that they need to improve their performance. They educate also, as he mentioned, also, their clients a lot. So he has many, many of these from a professional standpoint, like things in place to help and actually one of the core values that he tried to sneak into their company, into boomtime, which didn't exist before is this idea of the fact that educating businesses and people within these businesses is the best way to unlock potential. And this is kind of the mantra that they've been repeating to their clients, to themselves, but they really pay a lot of attention to. They see themselves not just as a vendor that provides you digital marketing services, they see themselves as a company, as a group of people that not only help each other learn and get better what they do by do the same thing for the people that they are in contact with their customers and become more of a partner and an educator for these businesses.   So their core value says, “We are curious, we learned, we educate.” and it goes internally and externally. And this is something they've been working on constantly, it's a daily thing for them which has been a huge dividend. And he’s very proud of what his team as reacted to that very, very well and they're all putting in the same way and unearthing a lot of improvements to how they do business, how they deal with one another from an interpersonal standpoint at work and how they impact their clients.    Where Can We Find JP Clement Online   LinkedIn – JP Clement Website – www.boomtime.com    Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity JP Uses   JP shared that here is a quote, actually a little personal note, he’s a big fan of watches, and mechanical watches, and he tends to collect them until his wife tells him it's too many watches and he needs to sell some of them. But that's another story. But one of the watchmakers that he really like is Oris, it's a Swiss watchmaker.   And they have a watch, a special edition watch they release once in a while, and it has a quote in the bag that is amazing. And it's from the first African American diver in the Navy that rose to the rank of major or like a very high rank, one of the highest ranks. He was like a Navy deep diver; his name was Carl Brashear. And he has a quote that they engraved on the back of these special edition watches, which he thinks is amazing. He said, “It's not a sin to fall down. It's a sin not to try to get up.”   Me: Don't get discouraged by falling down, just make sure you get back up.   JP agreed and stated that make sure you try as hard as you can to get back up. And that's the sin to him was, you will get down at some point, you will fall down and the sin is not to try to get up by any means possible.   Please connect with us on Twitter @navigatingcx and also join our Private Facebook Community – Navigating the Customer Experience and listen to our FB Lives weekly with a new guest   Grab the Freebie on Our Website – TOP 10 Online Business Resources for Small Business Owners   Links   Applying The Business Model Canvas: A Practical Guide For Small Business by Steven Imke    The ABC’s of a Fantastic Customer Experience   Do you want to pivot your online customer experience and build loyalty - get a copy of “The ABC’s of a Fantastic Customer Experience.”   The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience provides 26 easy to follow steps and techniques that helps your business to achieve success and build brand loyalty. This Guide to Limitless, Happy and Loyal Customers will help you to strengthen your service delivery, enhance your knowledge and appreciation of the customer experience and provide tips and practical strategies that you can start implementing immediately! This book will develop your customer service skills and sharpen your attention to detail when serving others. Master your customer experience and develop those knock your socks off techniques that will lead to lifetime customers. Your customers will only want to work with your business and it will be your brand differentiator. It will lead to recruiters to seek you out by providing practical examples on how to deliver a winning customer service experience!

James and Tyler talk about a legendary African American Navy diver.

In this episode of Chit & Chat, we discuss about Men of Honor, a movie based on the career of Carl Brashear. What are some ways we can encourage others? Why do they call a coffee a cup of “Joe?” Kick back and relax this is Chit & Chat. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jody-shuffield/message

Jess introduces us to Master Chief Carl Brasher who has quite a heroic legacy. This is kind of a side-story to a previous episode we did a while back. See if you can guess which one! Special shout out to Bob who recommended this topic. Sources 1 2 3 4

We're back again! But this time we're kicking off something a little different.We've decided to start a little film club, each week we'll share a film to watch, watch along ahead of the episode. Then listen along as Sean & Jack review, discuss and break down that week's selection. Then join in yourself and let us know if you agree or disagree.Our first selection is the 2000 Biopic "Men of Honor" starring Cuba Gooding Jr & Robert De Niro. The film tells the true story of Carl Brashear and his struggles against racism in the US Navy and life changing injuries as he seeks to achieve his dream.There is also a written companion review which expands o this episode, you can find this at www.theprojectseanist.squarespace.comListen along, like, share, subscribe then tell a mate and let us know what you think!

In questo episodio Antonio e Mario ti parleranno di alcune fonti di ispirazione da approfondire. Nello specifico verranno citati Film, Video, Libri, Musica, Twitchtv; trattasi di materiale da andare assolutamente a recuperare per iniziare sin da subito ad arricchirsi come persone e imparare qualcosa di nuovo. Ci aspettiamo un feedback su questa puntata, fateci sapere se conoscevate già le persone citate in questo episodio, ma soprattutto segnalateci le vostri fonti di ispirazione. Scrivici al nostro indirizzo mail fratellitudo@gmail.com e approfondisci sul nostro sito https://longoantonio.github.io/Fratellitudo/ Se volete seguire lo Streaming di Mario: https://www.twitch.tv/aario_ passate a fare un saluto in chat! Fonti citate: - Hayao Miyazaki : http://www.cinelapsus.com/si-alza-il-vento-2013-di-hayao-miyazaki/ - Carl Brashear: Man of Honor, L'onore degli Uomini, https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Brashear; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203019/ - Oki Sato fondatore di Nendo: http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/ ; https://icondesign.it/storytelling/oki-sato-nendo-intervista/ ; http://www.nendo.jp/en/works/seven-doors/ - Ray Dalio: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Dalio ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbsVbFAczg&t= - Riccardo " V1ci0us" Zanocchio: https://www.twitch.tv/v1ci0us ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL5Xvwjh_DM&t=2091s ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-23UT1XoA&t=5362s - The Beatles: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1266029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 ; https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Menzioni Speciali: Alessandro "Stermy" Avallone, Simone " AkirA" Trimarchi, Toni Robbins, Stefano Versace, Dario Vignali.

Película Hombres de Honor recomendada para emprendedores   Hoy de la película Hombres de honor que nos trae muchos temas y lecciones importantes para emprender, cómo es la fuerza de voluntad y el honor. Invitarles a seguir el Curso Crea Tu tienda online con WooCommerce revisamos en la clase #10 Descuentos, reportes y pedidos. Así que entrar a revisarlos y pueden suscribirse  a los cursos  online y aprovechar el 50% de descuento con la palabra lanzamiento.   Película Hombres de honor   Película estadounidense del año 2000 Dirigida por George Tillman Jr.,  Reparto:  Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Conrad y Charlize Theron en los roles principales. La película está basada en hechos reales de la vida de Carl Brashear.   Carl Brashear se alistó en la Armada de los Estados Unidos el 25 de febrero de 1948 poco después de que la Marina aboliera la segregación Se graduó de la Escuela de Buceo en 1954, convirtiéndose en Buceador de la Marina de los Estados Unidos.  No fue el primer buceador afroamericano de la Marina de los Estados Unidos sí el primero en graduarse de la Escuela de Buceo y Salvamento de la Marina de los Estados Unidos El contramaestre Brashear fue el primer Maestro de Buceo afroamericano en la Marina de los Estados Unidos. También fue el primer buceador amputado en ser certificado o recertificado como Buceador de la Marina de los Estados Unidos. Valores a destacar valor visión fuerza de voluntad persistencia perseverancia   Hasta aquí el programa de hoy,  espero vean la película, te mueve hasta lo más profundo de la fuerza de voluntad para salir adelante, característica importante de todo emprendedor.   Pueden  contactarme para dejar sus comentarios sugerencias feedback.     Millón gracias por  estar al otro lado siempre  escuchar el podcast, iTunes, Spotify,  Ivoox, Google podcasts, verme en YouTube.     Viernes a descansar  el fin de semana, disfrutar con la familia!  Nos  escuchamos y vemos  el lunes con un nuevo tema en el segmento de emprendimiento.   Un abrazo, Katya Amán

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Hoy en Oigamos la respuesta: Carl Brashear, los rohinyás, Cartago, leyendas Costa Rica, Pancho Villa, Saturno. Facebook: www.facebook.com/oigamoslarespuesta/ Web: www.icecu.org Envíenos sus preguntas al apartado 2948-1000 San José, Costa Rica. Llámenos por teléfono (+506) 2225-5438 o 2225-5338. Envíenos un correo electrónico: icecu@icecu.org

Anything you want in life can be achieved with enough hard work. It doesn't matter what your goal is, the resources you have, or what odds are stacked against you, hard work levels the playing field. It makes heroes out of ordinary grinders. It catapults the diligent ahead of the intellectual. It's the perfect get-rich-quick scheme. Without the quick part. Listen to Carl Brashear's story again: https://edgy.simplecast.fm/carlbrashear Read more: http://edgy.es/syRMIB Let's talk about it: http://edgy.es/fbgroup

Lips blue and hands shaking beyond human control, Carl Brashear struggled to find the next step up the side of the metal ladder to the wooden pier. As he made it to the top of the landing, he staggered to a wooden bench to sit down. His legs were no longer strong enough to hold him beneath the weight of a 200-pound brass diving suit. No one had survived this long. No one yet. Join the community: facebook.com/groups/edgyempire

Military Diver of the Year is awarded with the Carl Brashear Award.

Carl Brashear was the first to do many things. This week we'll compare history with Cuba Gooding Jr and Robert DeNiro's film Men of Honor. Get the transcript and full show notes at https://www.basedonatruestorypodcast.com/54-men-of-honor/

The African American experience has become a popular topic in the movies. From examining slavery to civil rights and beyond, African American history is being shown on the big screen in authentic, sensitive, and compelling manner. One aspect of the African American experience takes place in the military.    African Americans have fought or served in the military during every American war. This experience has differed from war to war and person to person. Yet there is a connection between the experiences and stories. Some have been positive and courageous. Others have shown discrimination and discouragement. Yet they are all facets of the African American experience and have been shown in movies.  Here are some of the best movies showing different aspects of the African American experience in the armed forces.   Glory (1989)   This is the true story of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which was the first all African American army platoon.  The setting of the story is the Civil War.  President Lincoln is on the verge of signing the Emancipation Proclamation when the troop is formed. Initially, the troop is given only menial jobs, which causes much frustration. The film’s major highlight is the troop’s deployment to South Carolina and attack on Fort Wagner. The movie shows the determination of the Black soldiers to fight for their country and freedom, the discrimination that they endured, and the varied backgrounds of the Black union soldiers. One of the most interesting and powerful soldiers was Private Trip (played by Denzel Washington who received an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role). Excellent early U.S. history film about the Civil War, slavery, and the country as it approached abolition.     The Walking Dead (1995)   This movie is a fictionalized account of the experience of four black marines in the Vietnam War. The marines had been sent on a mission to rescue prisoners of war in an enemy camp. Most of the platoon had been decimated upon landing behind enemy lines. However, these four men survived. The movie follows their lives after they return home. Each man is a distinct and strong personality. Each had a personal reason for joining the military.  Well-written and illuminating, everyone will relate to (at least one) of the men and circumstances. This movie also takes the viewer through a wide range of emotions.  The flashbacks are neatly cut into the story. Sometimes heavy, occasionally humorous, but primarily absorbing, The Walking Dead is a lesser-known movie about an important time in U.S. history.   Tuskegee Airmen (1995)   This fictionalized HBO television movie is about the work and exploits of the real-life Tuskegee Airmen who were the first African American combat pilots. The airmen (known as Red Tails because of the red stripe on their planes) acted as escort planes for the White pilots in World War II.  The movie shows the difficulties and triumphs, racism and ignorance, and growth and heroism of both black and white airmen.  An interesting (and rarely seen) event in the movie shows the Congressional hearings about whether to continue to Tuskegee airmen “experiment” in light of the bigoted research, which concluded “Negroes are incapable of handling complex machinery.” This excellent movie is worth the effort to see because of the excellent performances, particularly by Laurence Fishburne, and its glimpse into an important part event in African American and military history.    Buffalo Soldiers (1997)   This television movie brings to life the story of the Buffalo soldiers. Although the movie is a fictionalized story, the buffalo soldiers were a completely real (and often forgotten) part of American history. Formed by Congressional Act in 1866, the Buffalo Soldiers were six African American military (4 infantry and 2 cavalry) units. They were charged with protecting the settlers as they moved westward. They also built infrastructure in the west. But the Buffalo Soldiers also fought many battles in the post-Civil War period. This movie shows the hunt for the Apache leader, Victorio. With a talented cast led by Danny Glover, Buffalo Soldiers is an excellent movie that brings the reconstruction period to life and reveals the lives of one group of newly freed slaves. The Buffalo Soldier regiment was deactivated in 1944.   Men of Honor (2000)   This is the true story about Carl Brashear, who became the first African American master diver in the U.S. Navy. Brashear (played by Cuba Gooding, Jr.) left Kentucky and life as a sharecropper in 1948 to join the Navy where he was first assigned to menial jobs. Later, he showed an affinity for diving and worked hard to pass the written and physical tests to train as a master diver. Along the way, he faces racism from many different fronts. He also encounters people who join his struggle, particularly his senior officer played by Robert DeNiro.  This was one of the stand up and cheer movies of 2000 and remains an inspiration to all persons pursuing a dream. Two Documentaries: Men of Bronze (1977) focuses on the Harlem Hellfighters who fought in World War I. For the Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots is a comprehensive documentary that discusses Blacks in the military from the 1700s to today. It features stories about African American women in the military.       Movies are an important way to present history.  The African American military experience is a unique genre in filmmaking. Yet it is familiar to many of the two million African Americans who served their country. Each of these movies shows a different perspective of African Americans in the military—and each made an important contribution that should be remembered and honored.        

According to a new study released by the Pew Research Center, in 2009, the year of the study, the typical African American family had $5,677 in wealth, compared to the typical white household with $113k. The recession has just made things worse. So what happened to black wealth? How did the gap between the races grow so wide? And how do we get back on the economic road to wealth recovery? On the next Another View, reknowned economist, author, journalist and president of Bennett College for Women, Dr. Julianne Malveaux talks about the history of black wealth in this country and her new book, "Surviving and Thriving: 365 Facts in Black Economic History". Financial expert Yvonne Allmond also joins us with specific information on the steps you need to take to begin to build wealth. Plus, Lisa Godley brings us the story of Navy diver Carl Brashear and the efforts to keep his legacy alive. It's all on Another View, Friday at noon on 89.5 WHRV-FM, or whrv.org.