Drums in the Global Village

……I found this New Yorker page interesting—particularly in light of SNCC‘s 50th anniversary. Thanks to Marc Hopkins for pointing it out to me.

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Your contributions will be remembered. And get well, Dorothy Height.

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…..that Conan is displacing Lopez, moving him to midnight? No? Oh, because Lopez is a **** and should be lucky to have white people give him a show and a major white lead-in on a kinda-major cable television network so he can make as much money for them as possible? Oh, okay, just checking. 

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…..for getting your blog and getting significant (all day?) Pacifica Network coverage on your upcoming 56th birthday. And I’m really happy about this weekend’s C-SPAN “Book TV” event for “Jailhouse Lawyers.” You have not been forgotten in the Age of Obama. If only you could access any of it.  And if only you didn’t need [...]

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I only watched three, and this was my favorite.    This is clearly a big thing.

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….the folks involved in this enterprise.

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…..as “Captain Planet” homages go , I thoroughly enjoyed “Blackest Night.” (I even have a Blue Lantern Corps ring and button.) I would have switched the colors of what represented “life” and “death,” though.    I would have loved this even more if it had an actual ending, instead of a transition into the next [...]

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Really enjoyed this. I was supposed to have been looking for the comic for years. Come to find out the company never made one, so it made this short instead. Good move.

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……my nephew, Andrew Burroughs Jr., for having his film be placed on Netflix. July 6th UPDATE: And here’s a review and an interview with the filmmaker.

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