Todd S Burroughs
If you’re in the U.K., you’ll be watching the new season that starts Saturday. A little history of sorts will be made. Here are some trailers. And here’s some video interviews. Added on April 2: Saw the season premiere online today. She was GREAT. Here’s a clip. Enjoy it while it lasts on “you”-know-where.Â
 ………is not that it’s only a month (people who complain about it should respect its history), but that, like its sibling, MLK Day, the Establishment uses it as a way to instill some innocuous pride instead of directly confronting the ugly side of American history. Check out this “News And Notes” story and subsequent interview. And here’s the newspaper [...]
…………..PBS’s “Frontline”‘s interview with Angela Davis? Kalamu has recycled it from Skippy’s ten-year-old documentary, but the conversation is still is on-point as we come to the end of Struggle Season (MLK Day through the end of Women’s History Month).
 Once again, Dave is on point and in front of the herd. I’ve enclosed the open letter from Mumia’s lead attorney at the end of this posting. March 23, 2007 Third Circuit Appeals Court Sets Date for Oral Arguments in Mumia Case By Dave Lindorff Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Philadelpia journalist and former Black Panther activist [...]
 ………my colleague Roland S. Martin, who has just joined CNN. Here’s one of the official releases: News Release Contact: Danielle Robinson March 13, 2007 312 226 5552 10:30 a.m. ET Host/Columnist/Author/Journalist Roland S. Martin Joins CNN    Roland S. Martin, a nationally syndicated columnist and Chicago-based radio host, will join CNN/U.S as a contributor and [...]
Got this from—who else?—Kalamu.  New Online Exhibition Opens Up 300 Years of Caribbean History “Caribbean Histories Revealed,” a new online exhibition from The [United Kingdom] National Archives, launches on Tuesday 6 March. The exhibition traces the history of the British Caribbean through Colonial Office records from the 17th century to 1926. From maps and [...]
…….my friend, Hazel Trice Edney, who has been named Editor-in-Chief of the NNPA News Service, which includes BlackPressUSA.com. Although many sisters have worked as the News Service’s Managing Editor in the 1990s and early 2000s, in terms of power over content, she may be the first woman to serve as the News Service’s EIC in the organization’s [...]
…….Chris Rock on “The Tavis Smiley Show” joking with Tavis about Smiley’s annual “The State of The Black Union” gatherings? I also liked Dyson’s response two days later (March 9), which I’ve posted below. Tavis: Michael Eric Dyson is a distinguished Professor of Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and the host of his own [...]
 I only felt this was overly harsh because it hit too close to home. For those who want a little history after the humor, check out these three books and one site.
Got this from April Silver. New York’s Affordable Housing Crisis By Kevin Powell Stacy had been subletting an apartment in an expansive complex on the Upper Westside of Manhattan from a family friend for ten-plus years. A product of working-class New York, this arrangement helped to give Stacy’s life a foundation and, for once, she [...]