Todd S Burroughs
……..is really bugging me. Yet I do it anyway. There is NO ONE ON EARTH more media-centric than me , but c’mon…….. A whole episode of “Charlie Rose” about ex-President Bill Clinton’s “FOX News Sunday” interview? Wall-to-wall cable coverage of The Washington Post‘s Bob Woodward coming out with a book explaining the inside story of what we [...]
Heard about the Republican Party’s desperate, half-truth filled ad campaign for Black radio stations? Listen for yourself. One thing I can say for the Republicans: They really understand that the American political system is winner-take-all. They don’t want to educate anyone or make any new friends. They neither care about the enemies they make, nor how certain [...]
Here’s a blurb from Entertainment Weekly about my filmmaker friends. And the award for Most Unlikely Announcement the Week goes to Colin Firth (Love, Actually) and Livia Giuggioli-Firth. The married couple are producing In Prison My Whole Life, a feature documentary about a young white British man named William Francome with an unusual connection to [...]
From Roland S. Martin. ROLAND S. MARTIN: CBC Foundation Blows Another Great Opportunity For the last four years I’ve traveled to Washington, D.C. to participate as a panelist or moderator of a workshop during the annual legislative conference put on by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. An annual event for the last 36 years, the [...]
Hmmm…… NOT surprised—neither by the news, nor how he chose to make the break. I prided myself on reading EVERY McGruder interview that ever came my way. In virtually every one that went beyond than 200 words, I remember him complaining about how grueling it was to do the strip. (Here’s the most in-depth profile [...]
Ah, so refreshing….. Just like that Hilltop editorial. … When I was first asked to do an interview answering to VIBE‘s concern about reality shows and the mismanagement of female images in media, I straight out flatly refused. I’m neither arrogant, elitist, nor bitter, its just that the problems with the topic are beyond articles, [...]
…..wouldn’t Oprah make a great modern-day African goddess?
Here’s a part of it that might interest you. Voxunion.com describes it thusly: “Paul Porter (IndustryEars.com) was interviewed by Chuck D tonight for Air America Radio. The discussion centered on the crisis of Black Radio, payola, consolidated ownership of media and its impact on Black consciousness and struggle.” So there ya go.
National PBS Premiere on P.O.V. Tuesday, September 19 at 10 p.m. (check your local listings)Â In the wake of his stepfather’s death, Thomas Allen Harris embarks on a journey of reconciliation with the man who raised him as a son but whom he could never call “father.” As part of the first wave of black [...]
……………..Kojo Nnamdi‘s interview with Ngugi wa Thiong’o today? Okay. Here it is. A great chat about how to begin the de-colonization of the African mind. The excuse for the interview—as if there needed to be one.