{"id":80314,"date":"2020-02-26T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fifp.fr\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=80314"},"modified":"2020-10-22T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T18:05:22","slug":"blahc-the-brookland-literary-hunting-club","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/fifp.fr\/en\/portfolio\/blahc-the-brookland-literary-hunting-club\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAHC: The Brookland Literary &#038; Hunting Club"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ais<\/p>\n<p>Cette histoire orale rend hommage \u00e0 l&rsquo;exp\u00e9rience de 5 membres du Brookland Literary &#038;<br \/>\nHunting Club (alias BLAHC), un club de poker fond\u00e9 \u00e0 Washington, DC en 1942 par 9 hommes accomplis du quartier de Brookland dans le district &#8211; m\u00e9decins, avocats, scientifiques, pr\u00e9sidents d&rsquo;universit\u00e9 &#8211; dont beaucoup sont affili\u00e9s \u00e0 l&rsquo;Universit\u00e9 Howard. Ils se r\u00e9unisaient chaque mois pour discuter de sujets importants de la journ\u00e9e (le \u00ablitt\u00e9raire\u00bb) et de la \u00abchasse\u00bb (alias jouer au poker). BLAHC a surv\u00e9cu jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 aujourd&rsquo;hui, mais maintenant il est peut-\u00eatre menac\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>English<\/p>\n<p>\u200bThis oral history film honors the experience of 5 members of the Brookland Literary and  Hunting Club (a.k.a. BLAHC), a poker and social club founded in Washington, DC in 1942 by 9 accomplished men from the Brookland neighborhood in the district \u2014 doctors, lawyers, scientists, university presidents \u2014 many with Howard University affiliations. They gathered monthly to discuss important topics of the day (the \u201cliterary\u201d) and \u201chunt\u201d (aka play poker). BLAHC has survived until today, but now it may be reaching it&rsquo;s end.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80321,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[320,225,226],"class_list":["post-80314","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-320","portfolio_category-court-short","portfolio_category-documentaire-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BLAHC: The Brookland Literary &amp; Hunting Club - Festival International Du Film Pan Africain | Cannes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/fifp.fr\/en\/portfolio\/blahc-the-brookland-literary-hunting-club\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BLAHC: The Brookland Literary &amp; Hunting Club - Festival International Du Film Pan Africain | Cannes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fran\u00e7ais  Cette histoire orale rend hommage \u00e0 l&#039;exp\u00e9rience de 5 membres du Brookland Literary &amp; Hunting Club (alias BLAHC), un club de poker fond\u00e9 \u00e0 Washington, DC en 1942 par 9 hommes accomplis du quartier de Brookland dans le district - m\u00e9decins, avocats, scientifiques, pr\u00e9sidents d&#039;universit\u00e9 - dont beaucoup sont affili\u00e9s \u00e0 l&#039;Universit\u00e9 Howard. 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