Todd S Burroughs
…….and WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Don’t worry; NO SPOILERS here ) Better ending than “Jedi.” The “Deathly Hallows” climax(es) would rank about a “6″ if 10 was, say, the apex of “LOTR: Return Of The King.” As a Hyattsville librarian told me today after I proudly announced my accomplishment: ”The first 500 pages were hard to wade through, but the last 200 [...]
Did you check out Chuck D and Professor Griff on PBS’ “The Tavis Smiley Show”? No? Me, neither. Well, here’s the transcript. Click here to listen. Tavis: This makes you feel old. It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since Public Enemy came crashing into the national consciousness with their brilliant debut album ” Yo, Bum [...]
Damn. Here’s a list of videos from youtube. Damn. AUG. 18 UPDATE: I got the following from Kalamu. YOUNGBLOODS, ELDERS and FRIENDS: Legendary jazz drummer and political activist-musician Max Roach died yesterday. The funeral will be at Riverside Church in Manhattan on Friday, August 24th with services at 11 AM and viewing Max for the [...]
Eric Easter’s article on (the lack of) Black radio this coming election season?
Ah, to be a proud uncle. ————— FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: HEATHER MALLOY 310-402-4801 NEW JERSEY-BASED GREEN GLASS FILMS “ALGENY” SELECTED AS HBO’S BEST FEATURE FILM AT THIS YEARS 5TH ANNUAL MARTHA’S VINEYARD AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL PLAINFIELD, N.J.—New Jersey- based Green Glass Films won the top prize for feature filmmaking in this year’s Martha’s [...]
Here are some details. Here’s his bio and some links. 4:45 P.M. UPDATE: Here’s a full bio on our new Ancestor: DR. ASA G. HILLIARD, III [Baffour Amankwatia, II] Biographical Sketch By RUNOKO RASHIDI Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III, is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University, with joint appointments [...]
Ah, to control our own culture………. Tell me this link (it kills me that I can’t embed it here! RATS!) doesn’t make you think, just a little bit, of Michael Jackson’s “Remember The Time”? In fact, let’s put them “Side By Side” on this post. (If you’re an Elements-of-the-Universe fanatic like I am, you know I just made [...]
Seven-Five-Six, Bay-bee!! So howcum a brother can’t dope up, if everyone’s doing it? MARK. MCGUIRE. The 1990s Great White Hope Of The Browning Game. HEL-LO? Remember his doped-up ass, and how he wouldn’t talk about it? C’mon, folks. Congratulate the brother. Hank Aaron did. And admit it: it’s feels better to defend Bonds than Vick, [...]
Because I’d like to thank him for contributions like this. If you’ve seen his skewering of Cornel West, you know what I’m talking about. Somewhere, in the Realm Of The Ancestors, Zora is laughing heartily, gladdened that her traditions have continued in the 21st century’s Land of the Niggerati.
………that new film on Dafur? Three guesses to identify the documentary’s central character.