Black Caesar Pins and Buttons
Description: 1973 American blaxploitation crime classic starring Fred "The Hammer" Williamson. Written and directed by Larry Cohen, it was a remake of another seminal gangster film, 1931's Little Caesar, starring Edward G. Robinson. Featuring a score by James Brown, it has been name-checked and sampled in many hip-hop songs. Distressed for an authentic retro look.
Description: Black Caesar is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film written and directed by Larry Cohen and starring Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry and Julius Harris. It features a musical score (Black Caesar) by James Brown (with heavy input from his bandleader Fred Wesley), his first experience with writing music for film. A sequel titled Hell Up in Harlem was released in late 1973.
Description: Though racism was as prevalent in Imperial Roman society as it is today (which is to say terribly so), the Empire was in theory built upon the precept of diversity with a caveat: all were equal, so long as it was under the banner of the Pax Romana. There were Libyan emperors with Syrian wives and Ethiopian army officers, some serving in places as distant from their Sub-Saharan homelands as north of Hadrian's Wall in Britannia. The written, archaeological and genetic evidence is extensive as to the broad multi-culturalism that was the Roman Empire.
