Archive for April, 2007
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Six years ago, my friend Malik Russell and I did an Internet radio show called “Black World Report.”
Here’s an excerpt from one of our shows. Please listen and vote.
Also, please vote for our friend, commentator Jared Ball.
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From Kalamu.Â
An open letter to Oprah 4/18/7: From Saul Williams
Dear Ms. Winfrey,
It is with the greatest respect and adoration of your loving spirit that I write you. As a young child, I would sit beside my mother everyday and watch your program. As a young adult, with children of my own, I spend much less […]
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
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………….Uncle Ben is now CEO of Uncle Ben’s Rice!
Don’t believe me? Click here, then listen to this.
(First Aunt Jemima gets a perm, and now this. Hmph. We must be in 2007. )Â
Some historical context can be found here.
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Just got this from Akila Worksongs. Â
“It’s Men’s Attitude, Stupid!”: A Commentary About Imus, Hiphop And Sexism
By Byron Hurt
April 24, 2007
As a response to the Don Imus fallout surrounding his racist and sexist rant hurled at the blameless Rutgers University women’s basketball team – and to the dramatic shift and intense media glare on hip-hop’s sexism […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Yes, I’m that geeky.
APRIL 30th UPDATE: The full trailer is out! It’s here.
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
I mean, how could a world news industry, run by middle-aged men who are lifelong readers, ingore this story? LOL!
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
If so, too bad.
I’ve thought it was going to merge with TV One, not just die.
Our activists like to talk about our hundred billion dollar spending power. Well, it’s clear now that having a trillion dollars doesn’t and won’t mean much if that money is not targeted—if we can’t convince advertisers and cable and satellite operators that the […]
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Damn. Yes, he was the leader of The Generation of White Reporters Who Made Their Names Covering Vietnam And The Civil Rights Movement for Segregated Newsrooms (He covered SNCC from the beginning), but he was also a great storyteller deeply committed to craft. He also told it like it was. Damn.
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This press release has been making the e-rounds. Glad to find the news this morning.
WMXP-LPÂ /Â 95.5 FM
The Voice of the People
Community Radio for Greenville, South Carolina
321 W. Antrim Drive, P.O.Box 16102, Greenville, SC 29607
Tel. 864-239-0470;  Fax 864-242-2560 Â
E-mail mxgrm@aol.com
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For Immediate Release
Contact:Â
Efia Nwangaza, mxgrm@aol.com,
864-901-8627
Siyade Gemechisa, siyade@prometheusradio.org,          Â
215-727-9620 ext.505
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Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and Prometheus Radio Project Build Greenville […]
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…………coincidentally enough, a week after airing a report on the I-Mess.
As usual, hiphop was blamed for Everything That Has Gone Wrong With Black People. Although at least there was some acknowledgement last night that money talks, and that the rappers are just doing their part to make it (for the white corporations).
Checking out tonight’s story, I heard no more […]
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