Todd S Burroughs
………since WLIB, the station that taught me all sorts of things (including the power of radio broadcasting to organize Black people) announced that it was going 24-hour Gospel.
I had hoped for something different, but alas, we’ll have to wait for the next go-round.
So Black Enterprise finally has made the leap into Tee Vee. (I’m sure someone at Essence with a long memory is going, “So what? We had a nationally syndicated show years ago.”) ‘Member it? Nope? Okay, moving on, then……..
Buying “America’s Black Forum” and re-shaping it can only been seen as a good thing. The program’s only […]
…………Richard Prince of “Journal-isms” fame has an update.
Here’s my unsolicited advice: Let our Brother Ed go back to television, since he now has that new Black Enterprise gig, and give FARAI the show. Yep. Makes sense, don’t it?
Damn, I miss Peter Jennings. He helmed what was then the only (relatively-free) bullshit-free newscast. I still watch what’s now called “World News With Charles Gibson” still out of loyalty. We’ll see how long this loyalty lasts when I get the option of checking out kick-ass Katie (sans those extraordinary legs :)) on CBS at the same […]
Writer and broadcaster Suzette Gardner is a strong comrade. So you should check out her article on a new documentary film about Rastafari. She makes some points that are long overdue.
If you follow the MSM and/or news about people of color and you’re not reading “Richard Prince’s Journal-isms,” you’re wasting your online time. In his latest column, from the NABJ convention which began yesterday in Indianapolis, Prince updates the “News And Notes” story.
When “Eyes On The Prize” returns this fall to public television, check for the episode of “Eyes II” that starts with Amiri Baraka rapping about how Black people try to be Black, but they are prevented from doing so because there’s a white ghost on their shoulder or right behind them, warning that Black person of […]
My friend and comrade Jared Ball from voxunion.com would like you to check these two streams out. They may take a few minutes to load, but it’ll be worth it. Isn’t decolonized information wonderful?
Just checked out this past weekend’s C-SPAN 2 “Book TV”’s “Afterwords” online. Wanted to see Michael Eric Dyson interview Juan Williams about Black leadership. I thought it was a good conversation—very yin-yang. Check it out here (scroll down; it’s at the bottom).
The New York Amsterdam News has reported that WLIB, the flagship station of white-liberal talker Air America, may go back to its Black news-talks roots, via being a New York affiliate for Syndication One. I hope this is true. WLIB was once the information-clearinghouse for Black activists in New York City, and I’d like to see […]