“The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. I kept telling [Sidney] Poitier that Tibbs was a sophisticated detective, not used to being pushed around. I showed him how to do the slap. ‘Don’t hit him on the ear,’ I said. ‘I want you to really give him a crack on the fatty side of his cheek.’ I told him to practise on me. A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo.
”Young black people in northern cities responded to the film in a much more visceral way than the whites did. This was the first time a black actor was wearing the fancy suit and being looked up to.” -Director of In the Heat of the Night (1967), Norman Jewison on The Slap Heard Round The World
Poor Sammie played literally his first gig and immediately got the worst fan to ever exist
Rihanna, Daniel Kaluuya, A$AP Rocky, Damson Idris and Jay Z at the Super Bowl.
Megan Thee Stallion graduating from Texas Southern University and got her bachelor's degree in health administration on December 11, 2021
MEGAN THEE STALLION at the Glastonbury Festival (2022)