Todd S Burroughs
I liked yesterday’s Sharpton-NPR dialogue so much I’ve decided to put in here, in its entirety. ———- RENEE MONTAGNE, host: All this week on MORNING EDITION we’ve been listening to the debate over black leadership in America. We’ve heard from a corporate CEO, Ann Fudge, NPR’s Juan Williams, and author and linguist John McWhorter. Today [...]
The man I call “Rev. 911,” Alfred Sharpton, did a good job this morning on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.†He succinctly explained the difference between him and the others NPR interviewed this week in what the show called a “Debate On Black Leadership:†A leader, said Sharpton, “is anyone with a following.” I’m not [...]
Here’s the statement from Lisa Fager of Industry Ears. Viacom’s MTV continues to justify the exploitation of African American women by hiding behind words like “satire” and “parody”. The animated portrayal of two African American women scurrying on all fours with leashes around their necks, defecating on a pet shop floor goes far beyond the pale [...]
I’m going to try to get Lisa Fager’s full statement on this, so stay tuned. MTV2 faces decisions on ‘degrading’ cartoon Episode of ‘Where My Dogs At?’ showed black women leashed, on all fours MSNBC News Services Updated: 12:19 a.m. ET Aug 10, 2006 The MTV2 network said it had not decided whether it will ever [...]
was what I enjoyed yesterday. My good friends Michael Schiffmann and Linn Washington were around. While Michael showed me the cover of his new book, I was introduced to some GREAT individuals from London who just happened to be documentary filmmakers. As the anchors say on the Tee Vee news, “More on this as it develops.” Meanwhile, you might be [...]
Got my newsletter in the mail yesterday. Regardless of the European name, the Prometheus Radio Project is doing Shango’s work. The project is an activist group attempting to provide the world’s voiceless and informationally disenfranchised with low-power radio stations. I was very impressed with its presentation when I first learned about the project at a Washington, D.C. meeting of [...]
So let’s get to ‘em: ————- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/arts/television/03leve.html?ex=1155355200&en=a423c22ac06adf87&ei=5070 August 3, 2006 Agony of New Orleans, Through Spike Lee’s Eyes By FELICIA R. LEE NEW ORLEANS — From the beginning Spike Lee knew that Hurricane Katrina was a story he had to tell. Watching the first television images of floating bodies and of desperate people, mostly black, [...]
Good news is always welcomed here. So here’s some. ————- http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060803/lead/lead4.html  Region tunes in to CaribVision  published: Thursday | August 3, 2006 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: The Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) lead Prime Minister for the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), Owen Arthur, has fully embraced CaribVision, describing it as the region’s very “own” [...]
Finally. All 2,000 pages read of the three-volume King biography/Civil Rights Movement narrative history. Just finished “At Canaan’s Edge” last night, in between gorging myself on that day-long Marx Brothers marathon on TCM yesterday. Clearly this trilogy is supposed to be The Final Word on King and The Movement. As far as the often-trod history of 1955 to 1968 is concerned, [...]
Just got this email from Black documentary filmmaker St. Clair Bourne: ROZ PAYNE ARCHIVES Presents THE BLACK PANTHER LIBRARY 3 Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party plus A Massive Quantity of Rare and Exclusive material of Exceptional Quality ————- This is a large Box set of 4 disks each with 340 minutes. The editing [...]