#unbowed 1999

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Jay Tavare and Tembi Locke in Unbowed (1999)

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you can watch this movie for free on youtube btw ♡

Tembi Locke and Jay Tavare in Unbowed, 1999.

[lboogie1906]

Michelle Doris Thomas (September 23, 1968 – December 23, 1998) was an actress and comedian. She was known for her roles as Justine Phillips on The Cosby Show (1988–90), as Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters (1993–98), and as Callie Rogers on The Young and the Restless (1998).

She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Phynjuar “Penwah” Thomas, a stage actress, and musician father Dennis Thomas, a saxophonist and founding member of the band Kool & the Gang. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from West Essex High School in 1987.

As a child, she would accompany her mother at her theater rehearsals and performances. Her mother was her first acting coach and coached her throughout her career. A friend of her mother who had heard Michelle Thomas sing before had requested that she enter Miss Talented Teens. She was crowned Miss Talented Teen New Jersey at the state’s Hal Jackson’s Talented Teen pageant, and then in July 1984, at the age of 15, she was crowned Miss Talented Teen International from among 35 state and national representatives.

In 1983, she appeared in her first television commercial. In December 1984, she appeared on Soul Train after having won the Miss Talented Teen International pageant earlier in the year.

She appeared on various television programs, including A Man Called Hawk in 1989 and Thea in 1994. She had a role in Dream Date in 1989 and had a small role in Hangin’ with the Homeboys in 1991.

She had appeared in music videos for Mint Condition, Chubb Rock, and Dru Hill. Her publicist was Kahdijah Bell, daughter of Ronald Bell of Kool & the Gang.

In October 1998, she took a medical leave from the series due to her ill health. She had been in the studio recording music before her sudden turn in health. She appeared posthumously in the role of Anne in the film Unbowed in 1999. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[wasabicakes]

Unbowed 1999 film. Kiss and hair talk.

[sleepynegress]

A fun sweet scene from Unbowed... (1999)

[theonlinemuse]

And even more for the list below the cut because I accidentally deleted the original list, to be regularly updated:

The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)

Lady from Louisiana (1941)

Savage Pampas (1945)

Native Son (1951)

The Tall Target (1951)

The Landowner's Daughter (1953)

El Grito Sagrado (1954)

Tamango (1958)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Ganga Zumba (1963)

Lola Colt (1967)

The Great White Hope (1970)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Sounder (1972)

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)

Arabian Nights (1974)

Mandingo (1975)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Xica (1976)

Sparkle (1976)

Roots (1977)

Ribo ou le soleil sauvage (1978)

A Woman Called Moses (1978)

West Indies (1979)

Freedom Road (1979)

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

Backstairs at the White House (1979)

Manganinnie (1980)

Quest for Fire (1981)

Women of the Sun (1981)

Ragtime (1981)

Sugar Cane Alley (1983)

For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)

Cross Creek (1983)

Quilombo (1984)

Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)

The Killing Floor (1984)

The Jesse Owens Story (1984)

The Cotton Club (1984)

Silverado (1985)

Shaka Zulu (1986)

Native Son (1986)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Sarraounia (1986)

Yeelen (1987)

Angel Heart (1987)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Erik the Viking (1989)

The Mahabharata (1989)

The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

Tilaï (1990)

The Long Walk Home (1990)

Brewster Place (1990)

The Josephine Baker Story (1991)

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Malcolm X (1992)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

Sarafina! (1992)

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Queen (1993)

Posse (1993)

Sankofa (1993)

Great Moments in Aviation (1993)

Corrina, Corrina (1994)

The Flintstones (1994)

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)

Witch Hunt (1994)

Guimba the Tyrant (1995)

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

A Little Princess (1995)

Solomon & Sheba (1995)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

The Journey of August King (1995)

Xica da Silva (1996)

The Final Passage (1996)

The Cherokee Kid (1996)

Gulliver's Travels (1996)

Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Coloured (1996)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)

Hoodlum (1997)

Mama Flora's Family (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Miss Evers' Boys (1997)

True Women (1997)

Rosewood (1997)

Beloved (1998)

Ruby Bridges (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

Peggy Su! (1998)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)

Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)

Annie (1999)

Unbowed (1999)

Deep in My Heart (1999)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

Liberty Heights (1999)

Força de um Desejo (1999-2000)

Lumumba (2000)

Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

Remember the Titans (2000)

The Colour of Friendship (2000)

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

Feast of All Saints (2001)

The Old Settler (2001)

Ali (2001)

Bojangles (2001)

A Samba for Sherlock (2001)

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (2001)

Boycott (2001)

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

O Quinto dos Infernos (2002)

Chicago (2002)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

8 Women (2002)

Far from Heaven (2002)

Esperança (2002-2003)

Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)

Wondrous Oblivion (2003)

The Royal (2003-2011)

Kubanacan (2003-2004)

Salem Witch Trials (2003)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Chocolate com Pimenta (2003-2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Jack Paradise: Montreal by Night (2004)

Um Só Coração (2004)

Ray (2004)

Brother to Brother (2004)

Vanity Fair (2004)

Alexander (2004)

Something the Lord Made (2004)

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Lackawanna Blues (2005)

Roll Bounce (2005)

Casanova (2005)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Sinhá Moça (2006)

Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)

Idlewild (2006)

Mad Men (2007–2015)

Oliver Twist (2007)

Talk to Me (2007)

Zorro, La Espada y la Rosa (2007)

September (2007)

Pride (2007)

American Gangster (2007)

Hounddog (2007)

Hairspray (2007)

Murdoch Mysteries (2008-)

Merlin (2008-2012)

Skin (2008)

A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

La Traición (2008)

Little Dorrit (2008)

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

A Ilha dos Escravos (2008)

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

Mississippi Damned (2009)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)

Notorious (2009)

Precious (2009)

Children of the Corn (2009)

Black Dynamite (2009)

The Assailant (2009)

The Nativity (2010)

Mrs. Mandela (2010)

Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)

Love's Labour's Lost (2010)

Spartacus (2010-2013)

Frankie & Alice (2010)

Black Venus (2010)

Shirley (2011)

Black Gold (2011)

The Awakening (2011)

X-Men: First Class (2011)

The Playboy Club (2012)

Endeavour (2012-2023)

Lado a Lado (2012)

Django Unchained (2012)

Call the Midwife (2012-)

Hotel Noir (2012)

Toussaint Louverture (2012)

Hannah's Law (2012)

Treasure Island (2012)

Mabo (2012)

Julius Caesar (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

O Inventor de Sonhos (2012)

Sparkle (2012)

Copper (2012-2013)

Sinbad (2012)

Adesuwa (2012)

The Sapphires (2012)

The Price of Sugar (2013)

Betty and Coretta (2013)

Burton & Taylor (2013)

Njinga: Queen Of Angola (2013)

Tula: The Revolt (2013)

The Bible (2013)

Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

César Chávez (2013)

Da Vinci's Demons (2013-2015)

1982 (2013)

42 (2013)

The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)

The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

The Sound of Music Live! (2013)

Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

Black Girl in Paris (2013)

They Die by Dawn (2013)

The Butler (2013)

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

Masters of Sex (2013-2016)

Mr Selfridge (2013-2016)

Dancing on the Edge (2013)

Strange Empire (2014)

Salem (2014-2017)

Pompeii (2014)

Grantchester (2014-)

Get on Up (2014)

Northern Soul (2014)

The Knick (2014-2015)

Crossbones (2014)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2014)

The Musketeers (2014-2016)

Outlander (2014-)

The Keeping Room (2014)

Hieroglyph (2014)

Turn: Washington's Spies (2014-2017)

Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)

Still A Rose (2015)

Born to Be Blue (2015)

Texas Rising (2015)

A.D. The Bible Continues (2015)

The Book of Negroes (2015)

Hetty Feather (2015-2020)

Whitney (2015)

Danny and the Human Zoo (2015)

Iyore (2015)

Good Girls Revolt (2015-2016)

Miles Ahead (2015)

Jekyll and Hyde (2015)

Tut (2015)

The Ark (2015)

Celia (2015-2016)

Poldark (2015-2019)

Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

Of Kings and Prophets (2016)

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

A United Kingdom (2016)

Bodo (2016)

The Birth of a Nation (2016)

'76 (2016)

An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (2016)

Close to the Enemy (2016)

Upstart Crow (2016-)

Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)

Roots (2016)

Liberdade, Liberdade (2016)

Mercy Street (2016-2017)

Lady Macbeth (2016)

Fences (2016)

Azúcar (2016)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Cheating Husband (2016)

Êta Mundo Bom! (2016)

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (2016)

Loving (2016)

Underground (2016-2017)

Escrava Mãe (2016)

Free State of Jones (2016)

Velho Chico (2016)

Pambelé (2017)

The Greatest Showman (2017)

1745 (2017)

Novo Mundo (2017)

Double Play (2017)

Gook (2017)

Guerrilla (2017)

White Gold (2017-2019)

Mudbound (2017)

Howards End (2017)

The Good Time Girls (2017)

Timewasters (2017-2018)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Sweet Country (2017)

Black Holler (2017)

The French Dream (2017-2018)

The Adventures Of Selika (2017)

Anne with an E (2017-2019)

Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017-2021)

Taboo (2017)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

GLOW (2017-2019)

A Christmas Story Live! (2017)

Still Star-Crossed (2017)

Genius (2017)

Roxanne Roxanne (2017)

The Chosen (2017-2023)

Mindhunter (2017-2019)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (2018-2020)

The Long Song (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Central & Broadway (2018)

Les Misérables (2018)

Ordeal by Innocence (2018)

Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018)

Flock of Four (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Vita & Virginia (2018)

Wrong Kind of Black (2018)

Where Hands Touch (2018)

Luis Miguel: The Series (2018-2021)

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

In the Long Run (2018-2020)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)

The Nightingale (2018)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Coisa Mais Linda (2019-2020)

Sanditon (2019-)

World on Fire (2019-)

Dumbo (2019)

The Best of Enemies (2019)

Godfather of Harlem (2019)

Gentleman Jack (2019-2022)

Carnival Row (2019-2023)

Salacia (2019)

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Year of the Rabbit (2019)

Our Lady of the Nile (2019)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Bolden (2019)

Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019-2023)

A Christmas Carol (2019)

American Horror Story: 1984 (2019)

Dickinson (2019–2021)

Black Monday (2019-2021)

When They See Us (2019)

The Kitchen (2019)

Mixed-ish (2019-2021)

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

For All Mankind (2019-)

Seberg (2019)

Sydney to the Max (2019-2021)

Hollywood (2020)

Come Away (2020)

Bridgerton (2020-)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Lovecraft Country (2020)

Misbehaviour (2020)

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

Perry Mason (2020-2023)

Lovers Rock (2020)

Cursed (2020)

The Glorias (2020)

Miss Scarlet and The Duke (2020-)

Mangrove (2020)

The 24th (2020)

High Ground (2020)

Deutschland 89 (2020)

Emperor (2020)

Mrs America (2020)

The Pale Horse (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

The Legend of Inikpi (2020)

Sylvie’s Love (2020)

Bad Hair (2020)

Hamilton (2020)

Education (2020)

Son of the South (2020)

The Banker (2020)

Red, White and Blue (2020)

One Night in Miami... (2020)

Hunters (2020–2023)

Summerland (2020)

Operation Buffalo (2020)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Richard II (2020)

Little Fires Everywhere (2020)

The Witches (2020)

The Secret Garden (2020)

Uncle Vanya (2020)

Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)

The Green Knight (2021)

Last Train to Christmas (2021)

The Power (2021)

Cruella (2021)

West Side Story (2021)

The Nevers (2021)

Respect (2021)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

King Richard (2021)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Doutor Gama (2021)

Anne Boleyn (2021)

Passing (2021)

Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)

Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)

Annie Live! (2021)

The Colour Room (2021)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Cruel Summer (2021-)

The Wonder Years (2021-)

The Underground Railroad (2021)

Schmigadoon! (2021-)

Them (2021)

Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (2021)

The Drover's Wife (2021)

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Domina (2021-)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022)

Bones and All (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

The Serpent Queen (2022-)

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)

Amsterdam (2022)

Vikings: Valhalla (2022-)

Trees of Peace (2022)

The Walk (2022)

The Outfit (2022)

Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Catherine, Called Birdy (2022)

Hotel Portfino (2022-)

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (2022)

Persuasion (2022)

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

The King's Daughter (2022)

A Jazzman’s Blues (2022)

Interview with the Vampire (2022-)

The Woman King (2022)

Alice (2022)

Aníkúlápó (2022)

Dangerous Liaisons (2022)

Freedom’s Path (2022)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Minx (2022-)

Candy (2022)

Our Flag Means Death (2022-)

A League of their Own (2022)

Mr. Malcolm's List (2022)

Call Jane (2022)

The Silent Twins (2022)

Emancipation (2022)

See How They Run (2022)

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

The Gilded Age (2022-)

Women of the Movement (2022)

The Porter (2022)

Elvis (2022)

Pinocchio (2022)

Paper Girls (2022)

Till (2022)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Fannie (2022)

Willow (2022)

Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022)

Kindred (2022)

Holy Family (2022)

Chevalier (2022)

That ’90s Show (2023)

Spinning Gold (2023)

Air (2023)

Great Expectations (2023)

King Shaka (2023)

Nolly (2023)

African Queens (2023-)

Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)

Funny Woman (2023)

Big George Foreman (2023)

My Animal (2023)

The Roar of the Butterflies (2023)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023)

A Town Called Malice (2023)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Tetris (2023)

Transatlantic (2023)

Shaka iLembe (2023)

The Crowded Room (2023)

Tom Jones (2023)

The Gallows Pole (2023)

Peter Pan and Wendy (2023)

Surrounded (2023)

Rustin (2023)

Black Cake (2023)

Nome (2023)

The Buchaneers (2023)

Lessons in Chemistry (2023)

Queen Cleopatra (2023)

Poor Things (2023)

The Artful Dodger (2023-)

Fellow Travelers (2023)

The Colour Purple (2023)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

Ordinary Angels (2023)

The Book of Clarence (2023)

The Holdovers (2023)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Three Little Birds (2023)

The Winter King (2023)

The New Boy (2023)

Origin (2023)

Sense and Sensibility (2024)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Upcoming

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Palm Royale (2024)

Shirley (2024)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

Lady in the Lake (TBA)

The Big Cigar (TBA)

Dark Harvest (TBA)

Six Triple Eight (TBA)

The Nickel Boys (TBA)

Manhunt (TBA)

The Extraordinary Farewell (TBA)

Seacole (TBA)

Wicked Little Letters (TBA)

The Man Who Saved Paris (TBA)

De La Resistance (TBA)

Colour of Autumn (TBA)

The Richest Black Girl in America (TBA)

The Personal History of Rachel Dupree (TBA)

Bitter Root (TBA)

Josephine (TBA)

Eartha Kitt C'est Si Bon (TBA)

In the Pines (TBA)

Caste (TBA)

Steal Away (TBA)

Seize Them! (TBA)

Blitz (TBA)

Silver Star (TBA)

Benn/Eubank (TBA)

Untitled Harriet Tubman Project (TBA)

Untitled Stephanie St Clair Project (TBA)

Bonus:

Perseus (1973)

Hercules (1997)

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)

John Henry (2000)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

The Polar Express (2004)

La Reine Soleil (2007)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Chico & Rita (2010)

The Rabbi’s Cat (2011)

Zarafa (2012)

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)

Aya of Yop City (2013)

Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015)

Castlevania (2017-2021)

Spirit Riding Free (2017-2020)

Spirit Untamed (2021)

Encanto (2021)

The Bell Affair (2022)

The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022)

The Sea Beast (2022)

Tiana (2023)

Castlevania: Nocturne (2023-)

Wish (2023)

BLACK WMEN IN HISTRIC/PERID DRAMAS Dreamgirls (2006), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), The Help (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), Hidden Figures (2016), Harriet (2019), Lady and The Tramp (2019), Self Made (2020)

[deniscollins]

The C.E.O. Taking On the Gun Lobby

In February 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people. If you were the CEO of Dick’s sporting goods, would you: (1) continue with operations as usual or (2) immediately stop selling all assault-style rifles, no longer sell high-capacity magazines, and require any gun buyer to be at least 21, regardless of local laws? Why? If you chose (2) above would you: (1) return the assault-style rifles and accessories to the manufacturers or (2) destroy them? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

Ed Stack didn’t set out to be an activist.

The chief executive of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Mr. Stack spent his career selling fishing rods, camping gear and athletic equipment at big-box stores around the country.

Dick’s was founded by Mr. Stack’s father in upstate New York. As a young man, Mr. Stack worked for the family business. But he didn’t enjoy the experience. His father was a divisive boss who couldn’t manage a supply chain, and was especially hard on his son.

Hoping to chart his own course, Mr. Stack went to work at a law firm. But when his father fell ill, Mr. Stack came back to help run the company. He soon grew to love the retail business and eventually bought the company from his father in 1984.

Mr. Stack set about expanding across the country, at times moving too aggressively. Overextended, the company flirted with bankruptcy. But Mr. Stack stabilized the business, and in 2002, took Dick's public. Since then, he has managed to keep the company competitive in the age of Walmart, Amazon and e-commerce.

With all of that accomplished and retirement in sight, Mr. Stack wasn’t looking for attention. Then in February 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people. As Mr. Stack watched the news, he decided to drastically curtail Dick’s gun sales.

Days after the shooting, Dick’s said that it would immediately stop selling all assault-style rifles, no longer sell high-capacity magazines and require any gun buyer to be at least 21, regardless of local laws.

Dick’s was not alone. Walmart also tightened its gun sales policies after the shooting in Parkland, and companies including Delta Air Lines and MetLife moved to distance themselves from the National Rifle Association.

But for gun rights activists, Mr. Stack’s deeply personal engagement with the issue struck a nerve. The N.R.A. came after Dick’s, and calls for a boycott sprung up on social media.

Mr. Stack was unbowed. He announced that Dick’s would destroy the assault-style rifles and accessories on its shelves instead of returning them to manufacturers.

More than a year and a half after the Parkland shooting, Mr. Stack continues his campaign for stricter gun control, calling on lawmakers to introduce legislation and detailing his journey from businessman to activist in a new book, “It’s How We Play the Game.” He is reportedly exploring a run for president. 

This interview, which was condensed and edited for clarity and occurred before any presidential musings, was conducted in New York.

Had you confronted the guns issue before Parkland?

Our journey with guns has been a long one. Around 1999, some kids broke into our store in Rochester, N.Y., and stole a bunch of handguns. A few days later, the cops found these kids, and a couple of them were dead.

I said, “I don’t want to be in this business.” So we stopped selling handguns. We were small at the time, with just six stores, and nobody noticed. We took a little bit of guff from it, but nobody knew who Dick’s Sporting Goods was really at the time.

Who did you take guff from? The National Rifle Association?

No, it was customers asking, “Why aren’t you selling handguns anymore?” Then we opened in Texas and put some handguns back because it just felt that was what the customer wanted. With the assault weapons ban from 1994, we hadn’t been selling assault rifles. But then, probably a year before Sandy Hook, merchants came and said, “To be competitive in the gun business, you got to have assault rifles. This is what’s selling.” So we put them back in.

Then Parkland happened, and you decided to significantly curtail your gun sales.

When Parkland happened — watching those kids, listening to those parents — it had a profound effect on me. It was at that point I said, “I just don’t want to sell these guns, period.”

I’m a pretty stoic guy. But I sat there hearing about the kids who were killed, and I hadn’t cried that much since my mother passed away. We need to do something. This has got to stop.

I came to our management team on that Monday, and started to read a statement I had written. I got emotional, and I couldn’t get through it. Our chief of staff had to actually take the piece of paper from my hand and finish reading it.

You’ve done more than just take guns out of the stores though.

We called on Congress to come together with the intent to actually solve this problem. I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Washington, and it was pretty clear that nothing was going to get done, and nothing has gotten done.

I don’t know how, at least, we can’t get universal background checks done. For the life of me, I cannot understand how people can see that having universal background checks or red-flag laws really violates anybody’s Second Amendment rights.

You also went down to Florida.

The families from Parkland asked me to come down and talk to them. So I went down and sat with many of the families who lost somebody in Parkland. It was probably the hardest day of my life, to listen to those parents talk about their kids and what happened to them.

One woman said it had been a month since her son was killed. She said, “I go into his room every night, I sit on his bed and I talk to him.” As a parent, you can’t imagine putting yourself in that position. This whole thing still gets to me.

But what I found surprising of those families, not one of them said we need to ban all guns, that guns have to go away. What they said was we need to find common-sense changes to our gun laws so what happened to our family doesn’t happen anyplace else. If those families feel that way, I have no idea how the guys in Washington can’t come together and find a solution to this problem.

How do you respond to your critics?

People have said, “You know Stack, if we do what you want and ban assault-style rifles, ban high-capacity magazines and don’t sell a gun to anyone under 21 years old, it won’t eliminate mass shootings.” You know what, they’re probably right. But there will be less loss of life if an assault-style rifle isn’t used. And if we do all those things and we save one life, in my mind it’s all worth it.

What do you say to other business leaders who don’t want to get political?

If you have ideas about how to solve certain problems, I think it’s your responsibility as business leaders to speak up. This country is craving for leadership today, and the leadership is not coming out of Washington. So the leadership has to come from someplace else. Right now, the private sector is the place that it’s going to have to come from.

We have an expertise from a gun standpoint. We see the holes in the system. We found out that a couple months before the shooter in Parkland did what he did, we sold that kid a shotgun. The background system should have flagged this kid. He should not have been able to buy a gun.

Tell me about your dad, who started the company.

He was a complicated guy. He had a great heart, but he always had a bit of an inferiority complex. He always had something to prove. I think his fear of failure is what really drove him. He was a really tough, old-school guy. This was a time that you just never told your kids you love them. His view was, “We’ll make a man out of you.”

I didn’t want to work for my dad. I wanted to go out and do my own thing. But when I was 13, I went to work. We’re this really small, family, little corner sporting goods store. The family went and worked and tried to help out.

What did your dad do wrong as a businessman?

My dad never had a plan. He ran the business by the seat of his pants. His idea around buying was, “You got a hunch, you buy a bunch.” We were always close to going out of business. He always owed the bank money. He always owed the vendors money. He always paid them, but he was always in debt. Our garage would be filled with excess merchandise: Coleman coolers, propane fuel, white gas.

His management style was as haphazard as his buying habits. He played people one off the other. You can’t do that. You have to have specific roles and functions. And if you pick somebody who’s going to be your right-hand guy, then that’s the guy.

How did you take control of Dick's?

I fell in love with the business, but my father still owned the company. He was a tough taskmaster, and at times unfair. It was just his way of kind of making a man out of you. I didn’t particularly like working for my father.

We got into a spirited conversation one day, and he stuck his finger in my face and said, “If you think you’re such a smart goddamn son of a bitch, go down to the bank, get your own line of credit and buy me out.” So that’s what I did. I went down to the bank, got it put together, came back and said, “We’re ready to go.”

What don’t people understand about growing a business?

It’s not a straight line. You’re going to have ups and downs. You’re going to have those quiet introspective moments where you go, “What am I doing?” You’re going to have those days of self-doubt. And you’ve got to just power through them. But we almost went out of business.

How did you go from being a local retailer to a big-box store?

We built a bigger store. The first store my father built was 5,000 square feet. The second store was 2,800 square feet. Then we went to Syracuse and did a 20,000-square-foot store. That was a huge, huge difference. We were just shocked at how much business we did. The guys from Nike said, “Hey Dick, you’ve got to be really proud of these kids. They’re doing a lot of business.”

My father, who could never really quite give you a compliment, looked at them and said, “You’re right, they did a lot of business. They did 25 percent more business than they thought they would the first month. So they’re not really as smart as they think they are.” That was him to a tee.

So we built this store, did really well, and then we just started opening these 20,000- and 25,000-square-foot stores.

How did you almost go out of business?

The business outstripped our management’s ability, including my own, to run the business. We finally talked to G.E. Capital in New York, which was the lender of last resort before you called Tony Soprano. And I didn’t want to call Tony Soprano.

I’d never been in a building like G.E. Capital’s: big conference room, 10 people firing questions at us, saying, “Why did you do this? How did this happen?” This is like our last resort. If this doesn’t work, there’s talk about filing for bankruptcy or selling the company.

They fired questions at us left and right, and we answered them, and I finally said, “Let me tell you something. This is what happened, this is why it happened, this is what we’ve done about it and this is why it’s never going to happen again.”

There was a guy sitting over in the corner, and I didn’t pay any attention to him. He never asked a question, was never involved in the meeting. After the meeting, he came over and sat down, looked at me and said, “What’s it going to take for you to shake my hand right now that we’ll agent your loan?”

The lesson I learned is the guy in the room who’s not saying anything, he’s the decision maker. Beware of the guy in the room who sits in the corner and doesn’t say anything. I told him how much money we needed and when we needed it by. He looked at me and shook my hand and said, “We’ll make this happen.” That saved the company.

What did you learn from that experience?

You look into the halls of hell, and near-death experience changes you. We slowed the growth down. We said, “We’re not going to open any stores for the next couple of years.” We got our inventory under control, we got our expenses under control and we learned from our mistakes.

The experience is on the list of mistakes I made. I wouldn’t say it’s a regret, because we learned a lot from it. One of the reasons we’re in the position we’re in right now is because of it. One of the things I learned from that is I don’t want to have debt; I don’t want to owe anybody any money.

What’s the difference between a mistake and a regret?

A regret is something that you wish you could take back. You go, “If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t do it because it didn’t turn out very well.” A mistake is something that you did that you learned from, that at the end of the day it helped make you who you are today.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes. I don’t have a lot of regrets.

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In Defense of Sansa Stark

    In 1996 George R.R. Martin published the first novel in his epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire titled-- A Game of Thrones; 15 years later in 2011 a TV adaptation bearing the first novel’s namesake premiered on HBO. The fantasy series already had a massive fanbase, and it’s popularity spread like wildfire in the new medium. The show plays out like War and Peace in Middle-earth, and has a reputation for explicit nudity and violence. If a fleeting glimpse of happiness does appear in the show, it is quickly followed by tragedy; however, it contains some of the strongest female characters on TV. Brienne of Tarth is the most honorable fighter in all of Westeros, and she has yet to be defeated by even the strongest men. Margaery Baratheon (Tyrell) is a queen who rules with her mind and her heart. Cersei Lannister may be evil, but she is fierce. The Lady Melisandre is a priestess who wields the magic of the Lord of Light, she has the power to make kings rise and fall. Arya Stark is literally a child assassin. Daenerys Targaryen is the Mother of Dragons, and Breaker of Chains freeing slaves in multiple cities now. The women of Game of Thrones truly slay, in every sense of the word.

    Bearing all this in mind, I was taken aback by the uproar that ensued after the episode ‘Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken’ aired in May of 2015. The internet exploded with protest over a rape scene between the show’s greatest sadist Ramsay Snow (Bolton) and his unwilling bride Sansa Stark. When the show began, Sansa was arguably the weakest female character in the bunch. She was high born, the eldest daughter of the Warden of the North, Lord Eddard (Ned) Stark; Ned and his wife Lady Catelyn raised Sansa to be a Lady and to value honor above everything else. The audience sneered at her as she swooned over a sociopathic product of incest who also happened to be a prince-- Joffrey. We hissed at her as she betrayed her sister to win Joffrey’s affection. We rolled our eyes at her as she pledged her undying love to him, and talked of just wanting to be a vessel for his babies. We heckled her when she compromised the fate of her entire family, and we were annoyed with her as she sat complacently in captivity. When she finally did escape King’s Landing, she did so by way of the creepiest guy in all of Westeros-- a guy known by the name of Littlefinger. He kills her Aunt and manipulates her into defending him, and then he convinces her to marry Ramsay.

    I was not surprised that the showrunners decided to give this narrative to Sansa’s character, though it is not originally hers. The novel series is vast, and there is no way to include every character and every plot line. If Sansa had kept her book plotline she would have literally been sitting at the Vale doing nothing for all of Season 5. In the books the story plays out a bit different, but it still plays out. Instead, they decided to utilize her character and Sansa is married to Ramsay Bolton; after which, she is subjected to rape and torture, because that’s who Ramsay is. The rape scene was true to his character and it works with the overarching narrative. I knew that the showrunners had a greater purpose in mind when writing this plotline. In last week’s episode, their purpose finally became clear. Sansa is a character who hasn’t had any agency for the entire series. She is tortured mentally, physically and sexually. She is beat down over and over, yet she perseveres. She finally gains her freedom, and agrees to allow Brienne of Tarth to become her protector. She joins forces with her half-brother Jon Snow, and together they hatch a plan to reclaim their ancestral home from Ramsay.

    On the day before the Battle for Winterfell, Sansa rides up with the garrison to parley with Ramsay and his men. She looks at him and says, “You are going to die tomorrow, Lord Bolton.” She rides away with a smirk on her face, because she knows they can win the battle. The battle is long and brutal, thousands of men die on each side. Jon Snow and his men finally breach the walls of Winterfell, and he is moments away from beating Ramsay to death when he sees his sister standing there. He locks him in the kennels and allows Sansa the pleasure of finishing him off. He realizes that he is about to be killed, and tells her that he will always be a part of her.

She replies, “Your house will disappear, your name will disappear, you will disappear.” I rejoiced, this moment was everything I was waiting for. Sansa is gaining her agency for the first time in her life, and then she feeds her rapist to his own dogs. She smiles as she walks away, and the audience hears the dogs ripping Ramsay to shreds.

   In Ingraham’s article, ‘One is Not Born a Bride’, she discusses the heterosexual imaginary, “Applied to a social theory of heterosexuality the heterosexual imaginary is that way of thinking that relies on romantic and sacred notions of heterosexuality in order to create and maintain the illusion of well being and oneness. This romantic view prevents us from seeing how institutionalized heterosexuality actually works to organize gender while preserving racial, class, and sexual hierarchies.” (Ingraham, p.2) Sansa was raised in an ultra-patriarchal world; therefore, she never had agency of her own. Still, she survived through all of the torture, and she learned from her experiences. In the end, she demands to have a hand in the downfall of the man who tortured her. She is now, arguably the most badass woman in Game of Thrones lore. Hats off to you, Sansa Stark.

Ingraham, Chrys. 1994. “The heterosexual imaginary”, Sociological Theory 12 (2): 203–19. ——1999. White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.

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someone on a forum made a top 50 albums thread so here is mine. no specific order, and i didn’t really think about it much they’re just albums i’ve listened to a lot

chthonic - butik dragonland - battle on the ivory plains dragonland - astronomy dragonland - starfall bal-sagoth - starfire burning upon the ice-veiled throne of ultima thule cradle of filth - damnation and a day (from genesis to nemesis) cradle of filth - cruelty and the beast cradle of filth - dusk and her embrace the offspring - americana the offspring - conspiracy of one

arch enemy - war eternal arch enemy - anthems of rebellion lyriel - autumntales elvenking - the winter wake babymetal - metal resistance rudra - brahmavidya: transcendental i blind guardian - a night at the opera blind guardian - beyond the red mirror korpiklaani - spirit of the forest finntroll - nattfodd

dethklok - the dethalbum iron maiden - dance of death iron maiden - seventh son of a seventh son iron maiden - the number of the beast hammerfall - chapter v: unbent, unbowed, unbroken alestorm - black sails at midnight bal-sagoth - the power cosmic wintersun - wintersun wintersun - time i alhambra - solitude

arkona - slovo chthonic - seediq bale light bringer - scenes of infinity nightwish - once ensiferum - victory songs iced earth - horror show cruachan - pagan ayreon - the human equation seikima ii - 1999 blood list andrew wk - gundam rock

lacroix despheres - dernier paradis act i dragonforce - sonic firestorm dragonforce - inhuman rampage freedom call - land of the crimson dawn imaginary flying machines - princess ghibli aquaria - luxaeternia moi dix mois - nocturnal opera turisas - the varangian way kartikeya - mahayuga skyclad - folkemon

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So. Knowing that each set will be represented, we have a list to work through (Omitting all reprint sets, like...well...every core set until Magic 2010)  As a list we have (Masters 25 spoilers below the cut, of course.  And please let me know if I missed anything):

Alpha, Beta and Unlimited (They're listed as one in the Magic Site, so this is how I'm counting them: Lightning Bolt, Giant Growth, Dark Ritual, Armageddon, Savannah Lions, Blue Elemental Blast, Red Elemental Blast, Regrowth, Disenchant, Swords to Plowshares, Will-o'-the-Wisp Arabian Knights: Erg Raiders Antiquities: Mishra’s Factory, Primal Clay Legends: Nicol Bolas, Pendelhaven, Hell's Caretaker, Stangg, Fallen Angel The Dark: Ball Lightning, Blood Moon, Ghost Ship Fallen Empires: Goblin War Drums Ice Age: Brainstorm, Pyroclasm Starter 1999: Loyal Sentry, Cinder Storm Portal: Path of Peace Portal Second Age: Ancient Craving Portal Three Kingdoms: Imperial Recruiter, Kongming, "Sleeping Dragon", Borrowing 100,000 Arrows Homelands: Ihsan's Shade Alliances: Pillage, Balduvian Horde, Arcane Denial Mirage: Flash, Pacifism Weatherlight: Doomsday Visions: Man-o'-War, Quicksand Exodus: Merfolk Looter, Curiosity Stronghold: Ensnaring Bridge, Sift, Mogg Flunkies Tempest: Living Death, Kindle, Diabolic Edict, Jackal Pup Urza's Destiny: Elvish Piper, Trumpet Blast Urza's Legacy: Rancor, Unearth Urza's Saga: Lull, Angelic Page, Horseshoe Crab Mercadian Masques: Rishadan Port, Invigorate Nemesis: Accumulated Knowledge, Stampede Driver Prophecy: Plague Wind Invasion: Hanna, Ship’s Navigator, Exclude, Kavu Climber Planeshift: Eladamri’s Call Apocalypse: Vindicate, Mystic Snake, Pernicious Deed, Quicksilver Dagger Odyssey: Zombify, Shadowmage Infiltrator, Auramancer, Caustic Tar Torment: Laquatus's Champion, Mesmeric Fiend Judgment: Living Wish, Browbeat Onslaught: Akroma’s Vengeance, Undead Gladiator, Renewed Faith, Dirge of Dread, Krosan Tusker, Krosan Colossus, Broodhatch Nantuko, Skirk Commando, Choking Tethers Legions: Willbender, Akroma, Angel of Wrath Scourge: Decree of Justice, Fierce Empath, Elvish Aberration, Karona's Zealot, Noble Templar, Shoreline Ranger, Death's-Head Buzzard, Twisted Abomination, Chartooth Cougar Mirrodin: Chalice of the Void, Spikeshot Goblin Darksteel: Sundering Titan, Echoing Courage Fifth Dawn: Relentless Rats Champions of Kamigawa: Nezumi Cutthroat, Azusa, Lost but Seeking Betrayers of Kamigawa: Iwamori of the Open Fist, Genju of the Falls, Genju of the Spires Saviors of Kamigawa: Mikokoro, Center of the Sea, Promise of Bunrei, Freed from the Real Ravnica: City of Guilds: Frenzied Goblin, Watchwolf Guildpact: Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind, Pillory of the Sleepless Dissension: Ratcatcher, Protean Hulk, Utopia Sprawl, Court Hussar Cold Snap: Darien, King of Kjeldor Time Spiral: Brine Elemental, Fathom Seer, Vesuvan Shapeshifter, Fortune Thief, Assemby-Worker Planar Chaos: Akroma, Angel of Fury, Simian Spirit Guide, Kavu Predator, Whitemane Lion Future Sight: Coalition Relic, Pact of Negation, Summoner’s Pact, Street Wraith, Zoetic Cavern Lorwyn: Brion Stoutarm, Soulbright Flamekin Morningtide: Vendilion Clique, Ambassador Oak Shadowmoor: Cursecatcher, Presence of Gond Eventide: Fetid Heath, Flooded Grove, Rugged Prairies, Twilight Mire, Cascade Bluffs, Nettle Sentinel Shards of Alara: Blightning, Skeletonize, Knight of the Skyward Eye Conflux: Conflux, Ember Weaver Alara Reborn: Lorescale Coatl Magic 2010: Master of the Wild Hunt, Act of Treason Zendikar: Luminarch Ascension, Disfigure, Vampire Lacerator Worldwake: Kor Firewalker, Jace, the Mind Sculptor, Arbor Elf Rise of the Eldrazi: Ancient Stirrings, Prophetic Prism, Wildheart Invoker Magic 2011: Plummet, Cultivate, Squadron Hawk, Chandra's Outrage Scars of Mirrodin: Perilous Myr, Nihil Spellbomb, Heavy Arbalest, Twisted Image Mirrodin Besieged: Blue Sun's Zenith New Phyrexia: Phyrexian Obliterator Magic 2012: Swiftfoot Boots, Phantasmal Bear, Crimson Mage Innistrad: Tree of Redemption, Fiend Hunter, Murder of Crows Dark Ascension: Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, Haunted Fengraf Avacyn Restored: Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, Cloudshift Magic 2013: Murder, Timberpack Wolf, Griffin Protector, Bloodhunter Bat Return to Ravnica: Rest in Peace, Fencing Ace Gatecrash: Totally Lost, Boros Charm, Urbis Protector Dragon's Maze: Ruric Thar, the Unbowed, Notion Thief Magic 2014: Strionic Resonator Theros: Bident of Thassa, Gods Willing, Ordeal of Heliod, Returned Phalanx Born of the Gods: Courser of Kruphix, Retraction Helix Journey Into Nyx: Eidolon of the Great Revel, Nyx-Fleece Ram Magic 2015: Jalira, Master Polymorphist, Geist of the Moors Khans of Tarkir: Hordeling Outburst, Woolly Loxodon, Dragon's Eye Savants, Mystic of the Hidden Way, Ruthless Ripper Fate Reforged: Humble Defector Dragons of Tarkir: Epic Confrontation, Ainok Survivalist, Ire Shaman Magic Origins: Enthralling Victor, Valor in Akros Battle for Zendikar: Zada, Hedron Grinder, Coralhelm Guide, Zulaport Cutthroat Oath of the Gatewatch: Baloth Null Shadows Over Innistrad: Triskaidekaphobia, Vessel of Nascency, Uncaged Fury, Pyre Hound, Dauntless Cathar Eldritch Moon: Lunarch Mantle Kaladesh: Cloudblazer, Self-Assembler Aether Revolt: Treasure Keeper Amonkhet: Thresher Lizard, Horror of the Broken Lands, Supernatural Stamina Hour of Devastation: Act of Heroism Ixalan: Colossal Dreadmaw Rivals of Ixalan: Ravenous Chupacabra, Dusk Legion Zealot Commander: Animar, Soul of Elements Commander 2013: Prossh, Skyraider of Kher Commander 2014: Reef Worm, Myriad Landscape Commander 2015: Magus of the Wheel Commander 2016: Ash Barrens Commander 2017: Izzet Chemister Planechase 2012: Sai of the Shinobi Conspiracy: Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Conspiracy: Take the Crown: Deadly Designs

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Michelle Doris Thomas (September 23, 1968 – December 23, 1998) was an actress and comedian. She was known for her roles as Justine Phillips on The Cosby Show (1988–90), as Myra Monkhouse on Family Matters (1993–98), and as Callie Rogers on The Young and the Restless (1998). Shewas born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Phynjuar "Penwah" Thomas, a stage actress, and musician father Dennis Thomas, a saxophonist and founding member of the band Kool & the Gang. She grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated from West Essex High School in 1987. As a child, she would accompany her mother at her theater rehearsals and performances. Her mother was her first acting coach, and coached her throughout the course of her career. A friend of her mother who had heard Michelle Thomas sing before had requested that she enter Miss Talented Teens. She was crowned Miss Talented Teen New Jersey at the state's Hal Jackson's Talented Teen pageant, and then in July 1984, at the age of 15, she was crowned Miss Talented Teen International from among 35 state and national representatives. n 1983, she appeared in her first television commercial. In December 1984, she appeared on Soul Train after having won the Miss Talented Teen International pageant earlier in the year. She appeared on various television programs, including A Man Called Hawk in 1989 and Thea in 1994. She had a role in Dream Date in 1989 and had a small role in Hangin' with the Homeboys in 1991. She had appeared in music videos for Mint Condition, Chubb Rock, and Dru Hill. Her publicist was Kahdijah Bell, daughter of Ronald Bell of Kool & the Gang. In October 1998, she took a medical leave from the series due to her ill health. She had been in the studio recording music before her sudden turn in health. She appeared posthumously in the role of Anne in the film Unbowed in 1999. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2Q1doLOHm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Unbowed 1999 fan vid.

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