jackie "moms" mabley: "you got a mouth, don't you? speak out and speak up!"

[niyad]

(ran across this while looking at the "abraham, martin and john" video and had to share)

[Iggo]

1. I remember her!

[niyad]

2. another du'er just told me about a documentary whoopi goldberg did on her.

called "whoopi goldberg presents moms mabley" --an hbo doc. now on my wish list.

[Iggo]

4. Yeah, she was basically a standup comic.

And I guess she "worked blue" as they used to say.

I was way too young to have seen her real act. Mostly what I saw was talk show stuff in the early to mid 70's. But she would talk long shit about people and issues that needed talking about.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. FYI

It is on HBO Go now. It will be on HBO On Demand Starting February 1st.

[niyad]

7. thank you for the information

[valerief]

3. And people wonder why so many black men are put in prison. It's so they CAN'T speak out! nt

[dembotoz]

5. she was(is) special