Todd S Burroughs
I’m not just talking about the Party. That reunion happened in Oak Town over the weekend. Check out the archives here, and here’s two articles. It was good to hear a former Philadelphia Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, set it off with his commentary. His Op-Ed served as an appropriate and powerful open to the Pacifica broadcast. His BPP anniversary oriented interview, aired later […]
………..Queen Latifah’s “SNL” commerical parody yet?
No?
Oh, then here’s a yery good laugh.
From Davey D:
Tracey Edmonds Drops a Bomb About Radio at FCC Hearings
by Davey D
Yesterday (Oct 3 2006) film producer Tracey Edmonds spoke at the FCC Hearings in Los Angeles and relayed a disturbing story that took place during the 2004 elections.
She and her ex-husband-Kenny Babyface Edmonds along with Russell Simmons gathered up an all-star line up […]
A masterpiece in topical humor.
………..but, nonetheless, this was an important hour that was broadcast today, so please listen.
……..the Julie Dash profile by Thulani Davis yet? Yeah, the one in the new e-magazine, Code Z?
Well, why not?
Okay, here it is.
And before a pioneer starts hatin , here it is, too.
Meanwhile, a series of commentaries on the state of Black commerical radio is starting tomorrow. Now ya know.
Once upon a time, way before youtube and Google Video and even the mass production of television, there once lived a very brave and selfless Black man by the name of Charles Hamilton Houston. In the mid-1930s, he documented the racial inequities in South Carolina’s public school systems.Â
Here’s the film, and here’s some background on it.
……….”The Diane Rehm Show” guest-host Susan Page’s interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie today?
If not, you really should.
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This was the price a young Black Chicago boy paid for saying the wrong thing to a white woman Down South in 1955.
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Got this email today from somebody who got this from Keith A. Beauchamp:
Dear Friends,
On Sunday, Oct. 8, 2006, at 12:00 pm eastern and 11:00 am central time, “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” […]
Here’s a link to something that will make a nourishing lunch hour for all of us today. It is refreshing in its substance and reflection.
Meanwhile, I have to admit that Juan Williams did a good job boosting “Eyes On The Prize” here.