Todd S Burroughs
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 last time at 9 AM. (Directions […]
Eric Easter’s article on (the lack of) Black radio this coming election season?
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 […]
……then Cornel West should be very happy with these two tributes. LOL!
Here’s more, if you want it.
Ebony and Jet are online. No, a real site. Really. With punchy, well-written, original content on it. More proof we’re in the 21st century.
The Realm of the Ancestors has gained another serious artist.
Check these two samples out.
Liked this description of him and his work.
And thanks to Akila Worksongs for the obit below. It says it all.
AUGUST 27TH UPDATE: Here is Baraka’s eulogy.
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Obituary:
Gifted Poet Sekou Sundiata
(August 22, 1948 — July 18, 2007)
by Louis Reyes Rivera
On Wednesday, July 18, 2007, […]
………. Mark Anthony Neal’s interesting explanation (I won’t call it a defense, but I could ) of Michael Eric Dyson?
It’s been 21 years since this song and this artist took over my mind, body and soul.
I remember telling people at the time that my goal was to bear HER child! LOL!
What made me think about her today? I was joking with a friend of mine about Spike Lee’s cameo in this video:
While watching it, I […]
But first, a little text.
Hip-Hop and the Corporate Function of Colonization
Jared A. Ball, Ph.D.
Green Institute Communications Fellow
Having elsewhere looked at the function of mass media as primary mechanisms of the maintenance of colony, recent events have again emerged requiring further investigation into the function of corporate control over the cultural expression of colonized populations. Though […]
With Yolanda King, two things immediately come to mind. Funtown, and her work with Attallah Shabazz.
Yoki did get to go to Funtown with her father eventually, by the way. Now she’s with back with him, performing in the Realm of the Ancestors.
Asante Sana, Yolanda King.
5:51 P.M. UPDATE: Just got this from Rev. Forrest Pritchett, a […]