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Friday, August 12th, 2011THANKS to The Final Call for this! And THANKS to Malik for forwarding me this!
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Great Ceasar’s Ghost!
Friday, August 12th, 2011O-Kay. Well, I guess if a Black man can be Nick Fury, then why not?
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 (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 [...]
Goodbye, Oprah!
Monday, May 23rd, 2011We’ll be studying your impact for years and years.
Interesting That…….
Sunday, May 8th, 2011……”Smallville” premiered shortly after 9-11, and is ending its run shortly after Osama bin Laden is killed. Hmm……
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.
Asante Sana, Hodari Abdul-Ali
Monday, May 2nd, 2011……I was very sorry to hear of your illness on WPFW, where I first discovered you thanks to your “Wednesday Morning Jazz: Freedom Sounds with Brother Hodari.” I had rarely heard such combination of spiritual consciousness (music) and talk on the radio. And now I mourn as you have now joined The Realm of the [...]
Ah, Billy Don……..
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011…..all of the state’s journalists will miss you dearly. I remember the little “scoop” you gave me when, as a young Statehouse reporter for Capital News Service, I buttonholed you, the governor, in the hall. Made me feel like a real Maryland journalist. I was 24. You died at 89. Thanks.
Did This Man Kill Malcolm X?
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011I don’t know. Manning Marable and others have pointed to him. Hmmm…..hard to know what to say about this.