Last Thursday evening in a ceremony at Columbia University, the Blowback team was honored to accept the duPont-Columbia award for broadcast journalism for our film, "Triangle: Remembering the Fire."  Thank you to the jury, to everyone who participated in this film and to everyone who as supported it. 

Please see our Facebook page for photos from the event.

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Etta James was one of the great voices of our time and a huge inspiration to us at Blowback - from Beyonce's portrayal of her in "Cadillac Records" to her soulful contribution in "Godfathers and Sons."

We wanted to share two clips that feature her song "I'd Rather Go Blind." 

The first clip is from the documentary, "Godfathers and Sons."  In it, Marshall Chess shares the story of hearing of the death of his father, Leonard Chess and the impending end of Chess Records.

The second is from the feature film  "Cadillac Records."  In a breathtaking performanc…

Anybody who has watched "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" may be interested in the award winning documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island."  As more and more people, including Republicans, begin to question "What happened to the Middle Class?" and begin to wonder whether the unregulated "vulture" capitalism represented by Bain Capital has revitalized or help destroy our industries, jobs and middle class, they may also be ready to be reminded and re-sensitized to the real human fallout of this "Great Recession."

It is critical to empathize and help empower those who have been victimized, by no fault of their own, by the failed "trickle down economics" of the last 30 years.…

By: Arthur Delaney

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/foreclosure-south-carolina-primary-2012-gop_n_1199441.html

The battle for the Republican presidential nomination has so far been waged in states relatively untouched by the Great Recession. Now it heads to three states with some of the country's highest rates of unemployment and foreclosures.

In South Carolina, where primary voters hit the polls on Jan. 21, unemployment's flying high at 9.9 percent. After that, elections will be in Florida, with a 10 percent unemployment rate, and Nevada, where it's 13 percent. The jobless rates in Iowa and New Hampshire are 5.7 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively.