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Friday, August 12th, 2011THANKS to The Final Call for this! And THANKS to Malik for forwarding me this!
Archive for the 'music' Category
Public Enemy’s Latest:”Notice–Know This”
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011Public Enemy posted the following on Youtube: This is a polite respect call to the troops , to continue to inspire but reflect the people better. OTIS Redding was a humble country man from Macon Georgia who bought a jet to work in, not flash. He perished in that plane. Heres to hoping that [...]
“Like It Is” Presents Sammy Davis Jr. From 1969 (!)
Monday, July 11th, 2011Man, we need ALL of this show, archived, ONLINE. Interesting comments about Malcolm and Cleaver starting at about 3:45! Sammy was from Harlem. Below is a “Like It Is” documentary from 1978 (!) about Harlem.
Asante Sana, Gil Scott-Heron (IV of IV)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011I wrote the following “Drums” column back in 1996, when I was a doctoral student and not yet a Three Name Negro. It was syndicated by the NNPA News Service to approximately 200 Black newspapers nationwide. I now know that “The Bottle” might have been his “song of celebration” because it was his biggest [...]
Asante Sana, Gil Scott-Heron (III of IV)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Asante Sana, Gil Scott-Heron (II of IV)
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011I wrote this “Drums” column in 1999, when I was a Ph.D. candidate who occasionally posted something on The Black World Today website, a now- defunct Black web pioneer. DRUMS IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE A Column on Media, Race and Culture by Todd Burroughs AN ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY’ OF GIL SCOTT-HERON I want to make this [...]
Asante Sana, Gil Scott-Heron (I of IV)
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Harry Belafonte: “Sing Your Song”
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011Common Sense
Thursday, May 12th, 2011*SIGH*. MAY 17th UPDATE: Ladies and Gentlemen, Part One of Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly. Part Two is below.
Congrats To…….
Sunday, May 8th, 2011…….my nephew, Andrew Burroughs, Jr., whose sci-fi thriller “Algeny” has made No. 5 of Smooth magazine’s top five indy Black films you should be watching, …..Free Speech TV being covered by The Denver Post, and, finally to my friend and colleague Ericka Blount-Danois, who wrote this story about this groundbreaking show.