Katrina Kartoon Kicks…………..
Thursday, August 31st, 2006………………well, you know. Like all of us every day, sometimes Mark Fiore hits the mark, sometimes he doesn’t. This time it’s the former.
Archive for August, 2006
Dyson as Ying, Williams As Yang (THE NPR-KATRINA REMIX)
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006They should take this show on the road. Sing along with me now: “Overture/Curtain, lights/This is it/The night of nights. No more rehearsing or nursing a part/We know every part by heart. Overture/Curtain, lights/This is it/We’ll hit the heights/And oh, what heights we’ll hit/On with the show, this is it!” LOL! (Meanwhile, let’s peer past punditry [...]
More (Black, Independent) Katrina Video……….
Monday, August 28th, 2006………is here, thanks to the National Black Programming Consortium. And thanks to National Public Radio for posting this on “Talk Of The Nation“‘s site today. Â
A Glimpse Of The Futu—er, Present? :)
Saturday, August 26th, 2006A couple of months or so ago, my friend and comrade Jared Ball and I wrote about the need for a “B-SPAN”—a Black C-SPAN that would serve the people’s needs. So I was more than slightly intrigued when I found the following in my email box this morning: Wi-Fi TV Launches Black and African-American Internet [...]
Doing For Self (More Katrina From The Prism Of Black Media)
Saturday, August 26th, 2006Here’s the press release and trailer link to the Nation of Islam’s Katrina documentary. The provocative new documentary ‘The Unmasking of New Orleans’ includes exclusive, never-before-seen coverage and reports revealing the true nature of events in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) August 22, 2006 — On the eve of the [...]
Hope You’re Reading……….
Friday, August 25th, 2006…………….BlackAmericaWeb‘s five-part series on Katrina, One Year Later. While you’re there, check out BAW’s article on the current state of Black television. I’m beginning to no longer remember a time in which we didn’t have immediately accessible, national Black-generated print reporting. It’s a good feeling for this Black media historian and AFRO and NNPA News [...]
The Child’s Choice That Won’t Go Away
Thursday, August 24th, 2006I heard about it, but I didn’t see it until today. While sitting at my desk reading about Philadelphia’s Civil Rights and Black Power movements, my filmmaker nephew, Andrew Burroughs, sent me a link to a recent documentary about shadism and Black self-hate that should be seen and forwarded around to everyone. “Check this out it’s [...]
Katrina Appointment Television
Thursday, August 24th, 2006And then the waters came. They clearly haven’t left our psyches yet—and they shouldn’t. Anyway, Richard Prince has, as usual, done a great public service. The “Journal-isms” columnist compiled this list of Katrina network and cable coverage. The electronic onslaught starts tomorrow or so. (Also, if you missed Spike’s documentary, the entire thing—both parts, all four acts—will [...]
“Militant” Black Films Wanted
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Found this email from St. Clair Bourne in my box this morn: “MILITANT” BLACK FILMS WANTED Isaac Julien, the veteran Black Brit filmmaker (and now video art installation-ist) is beginning to curate a show of films (docs, shorts or dramas) about the Black Panther movement in the States and other interesting and unusual films with [...]
I Miss Being That Optimistic……
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006……..but the more and more I read our history in 2006, the more and more I understand that the present in which we are living is extraordinarily different, on many levels, from our collective past, if you start that particular clock with Reconstruction and break it in the aftershock of the tragedy at the Lorraine Hotel. The many changes of our [...]