Renny roker biography of albert
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European HoF Members
This page was created in May 2018 and will be filled during time, step by step. Reactions are placed ad random. Enjoy.
May 1st. 2018. This FACEBOOK reaction came in from Tom Lynch - GBR.
Ok, such a great response from my last post, thank you, only went in the loft for a picture for Dale Holmes. So a lil international flavour then just concentrating on a little over 1 year.
Team AMEV ruled from 86 led by Sir Gerrit Does from Holland, the Godfather. Got battered a bit coming from 15 expert (IBMXF euro champ) to Superclass for Team Robinson, yes lots of pack racing & elbows to head! Legends like Leon Walravens, Phil Hoogendoorn, Pierre van Zuijlen, Ludy van Werff, Xavier Redois, Claude Vuillemot, Addie van de Ven, Rainer Schadowski and many others including our own John Stockwell, Tony Fleming, Winnie Wright & Darrin Stock later in 87 Carrie-Mike King took the IBMXF Superclass World Title in USA after racing him in Canada 85 in expert
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Year 1978.
1978 - Europeans discover BMX in the USA.
The ABA makes the decision to expand nationally. First ABA national race held in Azusa, California. First large pro purse ($1,000.00) offered at a major race by the ABA.
Kyle Flemming became ABA's first number 1 Amature. Kyle was riding for DG at the time. A couple of years later, Kyle was killed in a car-train accident going with 3 others to a BMX race. I will come back to this tragic event later on.
Again, this was the year I got involved in BMX seriously. I organized the tjänsteman introduction of the sport of BMX during the international moto-cross event at Valkenswaard in March 1978. A group of about 10 riders did give a demonstration of BMX racing. An unofficial BMX organization was founded (not registered/recognized by the tjänsteman authorities) on May 16th. 1978 by yours truly, called: "Eerste Nationale Fietscross Organisatie" (1st National BMX Organization).
Around this time, inom contacted the municipality of Eind
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“Horace was a very quiet, behind the scenes kind of guy. He didn’t like to be out in the open and he was also very religious. He was the kind of guy that just didn’t like a lot of public relations and all that kind of stuff. He just figured if he made a good movie, everybody is going to come… [He] was a wonderful, religious family man. He had a hell of a struggle getting to where he did. Nobody thought a Black producer could do a picture that wasn’t about drugs, shootings and pimps.” – Actor Renny Roker, 2016 Ebony interview
Horace Jackson was an African-American cinematic catalyst that very few people currently remember. In light of the tremendous odds he consistently challenged to produce his four projects, and the concepts he espoused that are now commonplace in modern film, his history commands greater attention. He occupied a space that straddled the line of sacred and profane, arthouse and grindhouse, and made a path that may have taken decades