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2010 · Movie · 20m

Blind Man Walking

Five Percent Nation of Gods and Earth's founder, Clarence 13X, left the Nation of Islam, he was likely unaware that his small group would grow into a movement, eventually reconstructing the identities of innumerable young, Black men in inner-cities across America. The foremost tenets of 5% ideology, that the Black man is both God and the Sun, are nurtured by a standard for Black familyhood in which the Black woman, the Earth, revolves around her mate. Her God is all-seeing and all-knowing.

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A grounded examination of spiritual ideology and identity reconstruction in urban America. This is for viewers seeking to understand the cultural and philosophical movements that shaped Black communities—unflinching, thought-provoking, and deeply introspective.

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Cast

Jay ClarkKilogramShae' LiPrince Devine

Director

Tanji Gilliam

If tonight is a Blind Man Walking night…

…these live in the same corner of my head.

Want one picked out for tonight?

Tell me what kind of night it is — I'll do the rest.