Drums in the Global Village

And just when I swore I was not going to watch it illegally online this season, that I was not going to care so much this time because of Freema getting the boot (well, sort of).
*SIGH*

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Once upon a time, one of the greatest writers America has ever produced, Amiri Baraka, covered the 1988 Democratic National Convention for Essence magazine. (Baraka later wrote a whole book-length essay on Jesse Jackson’s relationship with Black people from the assignment.) In the excerpt I read in Baraka’s reader, he quotes Jackson as the Reverend […]

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“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to […]

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Good news here, because I thought while reading Book Seven, “How can the filmed version of this be under five hours?”

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Now, please go against your nature so you don’t end up as weak as David Dinkins.

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Here’s the amusing-but-true sibling to the white one.

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…..my friend and mentor Herb Boyd, who was honored Feb. 19 by Anheuser Busch at Hue Man Bookstore in Harlem.
Herb’s an author, journalist and historian. The managing editor of The Black World Today and a longtime freelancer for The New York Amsterdam News, he’s the author of about a gazillion books. He also is a […]

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First, some history.

Now, moving on to film:
Remember the 1980s comedy “Soul Man,” where the lead character colors himself Black—as in, actor C. Thomas Howell performing in Blackface?
Well, here’s something fun to do in 2008: find Robert Downey Jr. in this promotional photo for the new comedy film, “Tropic Thunder”:

I don’t even know what to say. […]

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Is it time to stop singing yet and start……? Two different views from The Root as to what Obama should do.
The Gandhian in me wants to go here (my huge crush on Melissa Harris-Lacewell pushed to the side ), but I don’t want Obama to metaphorically end up like Fannie Lou Hamer getting her ass beaten in […]

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Okay, look: I fully admit that I have a little bit of a crush (intellectually, although I’ve always had a little thing for redheads ) on Samantha Power.
She’s everything I want to be: an author, a journalist, a talking head.
I’m really sorry that she spoke her mind this time, ’cause I hate to see […]

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