Dick Clark’s Death Is Making Me Think Of……
Thursday, April 19th, 2012……Georgie Woods, The Man With The Goods. He was The Man. Dick Clark is interviewed here.
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Smiley and West On Eliminating Poverty
Thursday, April 19th, 2012APRIL 24TH UPDATE: I’m glad they did this. But short of The Fire This Time, I don’t know how they can get people to pay attention.
Mumia Abu-Jamal 2012 Interview With Russian Television
Thursday, April 19th, 2012Listening to this reminds me again how much of life Abu-Jamal has missed. ************ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 9, 2012 Media Contact AKILA WORKSONGS, Inc. April R. Silver | pr@akilaworksongs.com Chantel Bell | chantel@akilaworksongs.com DANNY GLOVER, FRANCES FOX PIVEN, M1 OF DEAD PREZ AND OTHERS WILL “OCCUPY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT” FOR THE RELEASE [...]
Marable (Posthumously) Wins Pulitzer For “Reinvention”
Monday, April 16th, 2012If it was any other major Black biography, I’d be overjoyed. But nope. I’ll stand by what I’ve said on this, and what I will say. Columbia professor, 3 alums, including former Spectator editor, win Pulitzers In addition to the four Columbia affiliates, the Associated Press team that uncovered the NYPD surveillance of Muslim communities [...]
Resurrected Tupac, Yesterday, Today, Forever
Monday, April 16th, 2012A little eerie (scary?), but it’s not like Tupac has really left the Hiphop Generation’s collective consciousness. But a tour? Really?
Animated Icon and Rocket!
Monday, April 16th, 2012After five years of watching “Static Shock!” and being disappointed that they didn’t appear, HOORAY! ICON and Rocket! My Milestone favorites! Thanks, Dwayne McDuffie! I know you are in the Realm of the Ancestors, smiling!
“The Avengers” Meet Dr. Pepper: So, Take It Away, Stan! :)
Sunday, April 15th, 2012LOL! Hamming it up until the end, huh? LOL!
“Dark Girls:” The Issue That Still Haunts
Monday, April 9th, 2012I’ve struggled with this, and I’ve seen it at Morgan. Painful. Thanks to Bill Duke.
“Be Your Best Self:” Mumia’s Message To His Peeps On Death Row
Sunday, April 8th, 2012With Mumia settling (permanently?) into general population, now that his (last?) appeal is gone, I had to post what I got today from International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal, as supporters prepare to “Occupy The Justice Department” on his 58th birthday: On December 18, 2011, from his solitary cell at SCI Mahanoy, Mumia [...]
Thank You, Mike Wallace
Sunday, April 8th, 2012…..for using journalism both to expose injustice and to try to get at the truth. (I am putting that imfamous racist “watermelons and tacos” crack to the side, but am still putting it here on the record.) As the videos below show, even the product of your ignorance way back when was interesting and helpful. ****** (Stolen from “Today’s [...]