Todd S Burroughs
News For All The People: The Epic Story Of Race And The American Media. Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres. Verso. 480 pp. $29.95. When journalists write history, there is always the danger of that history being shallow, surface-level. This remarkable book is one of the rare instances of such a problem being a positive, due [...]
YES!!!!!! May 4th, May 4th, May 4th…….
OKAY! Wow! And lookit this new poster! GULP!
This is my friend Wayne Dawkins’ agent. She is representing this book. Congrats to her for being featured here!
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook ………That Newt Gingrich comment about poor kids and work. Of course this was forwarded to me by Gregory Adamo. ……… the Republican campaign prior to Iowa. (I thought I would REALLY miss Herman Cain, but Newt….WOW!) This [...]
Been thinking about Lerone Bennett Jr. a lot lately. About how serious he is. About how he accomplished more with 10 books than others with 20-plus. (And most of the 10 shaped the entire development of Black History in the 20th century!) About how he, Du Bois and Diop were the only historians I remember [...]
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
With stuff this good at 3:50 a.m., it may be a looooonnnnnggggg time before I sleep late again! This aired on the BBC World Service this morning. Mandela gives his account of what happened in his book.
A new movement that is not completely a movement (didja hear about the “Occupy” reality show yet? ) has luminaries that are not completely leaders. “Democracy Now!” profiled in Monday’s New York Times. West profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered” yesterday. West and Michael Moore on “Democracy Now!” for the hour yesterday. Okay, legitimate (elite) [...]
I especially liked when Herb Boyd and Betty Dopson read from “Black Is The Color of My TV Tube.” As an undergraduate, I had that book glued to my body the way many students kept “The Autobiography” in their knapsacks. Bill Cosby said pretty much everything I would have said if I had been on [...]