Bounce Tv special program for black history month
Staff Writer
2015-01-28
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BOUNCE TV HONORS BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015 (All Times Eastern) Sunday, February 1 9:00 p.m. – Malcolm X - The story of America's fiery civil-rights leader who went from jail to leading a revolution, featuring Denzel Washington's acclaimed performance in the title role. 1:00 a.m. – For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story – Howard Rollins, Jr. stars as Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a true leader of the black community. Despite death threats and physical assaults on his family, Evers vows to stay in Jackson until his mission is complete. Sunday, February 8 9:00 p.m. – The Color Purple - The multiple Academy Award®-winning motion picture based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal sharecropper husband. 12:30 a.m. – Ghosts of Mississippi - The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers, (Played by Whoopi Goldberg) and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice.
Bounce TV does Black History month tribute
Sunday, February 15
9:00 p.m. – Sounder - Black sharecroppers during the Depression fight to get their children a decent education in this multiple-Oscar® nominated classic starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield.
11:00 p.m. – The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Tyson also stars in this iconic and multiple award-winning film about a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement.
Sunday, February 22 9:00 p.m. – Ray - From his humble beginnings in the South through his meteoric rise to the top of the music charts, Ray Charles' inspirational journey is a tale of hope, redemption and the power of the human spirit. Jamie Foxx won the Best Actor Oscar® for his portrayal of the musical giant.
12:00 a.m. – Mandela & de Klerk - The story of the negotiations between Civil rights activist Nelson Mandela (Sidney Poitier) and South African President F.W. de Klerk (Michael Caine) -- onetime ideological enemies -- for South Africa's ordered, legal, and peaceful transition to a full democracy.