Todd S Burroughs
It was great hearing Bob Law’s voice on the radio again. The occasion was a new documentary film he’s narrating.
Enjoyed the recent NPR discussion about it, and Black radio. I agree with the host—the time for Black Activist Commercial Radio might be past, but not necessarily for the same reasons she brought up. Check here […]
I like “NOVAScienceNOW,” even though I’m not hosting it. Believe me, that’s high praise. It’s clear we’re in the Golden Age of the Magazine—the BROADCAST magazine. I’m happy that I can listen to three national Black(ish) radio newsmagazines in a week, watch the NOVA spinoff show every summer and check out what the brother’s doing on […]
…..so I’ll leave it to the audience as to whether this episode of “Click & Clack’s As The Wrench Turns,” the new “Car Talk” animated series I saw over the weekend, is borderline racist. I know that if I was from India I’d be getting tired of this kind of thing. And what’s up with […]
……for the single greatest radio broadcast I’ve heard yet.
The Fourth of July as “Freedom Of Speech Day!” What a concept!
I couldn’t believe the careful balance of time, place, geography, race, and gender that was attempted for those nine hours of radio—From Paul Robeson to George Carlin to Maurice Bishop to Coretta Scott King to Sam […]
I was very inspired by this one story. I guess most radio folks see themselves in this way, in this man.
The kind of conversation I love. The artist talks about his life and his art. Damn.
“America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”
-George Carlin, 1937-2008
Was this hour of NPR’s “The Diane Rehm Show” really as scary as it sounded? Let me know.
More proof that it’s not a conspiracy if a) it’s out in the open, and b) the targets don’t have the same level of power as the “conspirators.”
If you do, go to Tom’s site and vote!
I voted for:
Jared Ball
Yvonne Bynoe
Jabari Asim
Byron Hurt
Roland Martin
JUNE 27th UPDATE: The finalists have been announced. Although they are not my picks, I’m glad Tom didn’t just go for the first “intellectual celebrities” everyone could think of.
……documentaries like this!
Thanks to Dr. Jared Ball for finding this video!
……. “South Africa At A Crossroads,” Charlayne Hunter-Gault’s NPR series on the current problems of South Africa?
Or that “All Things Considered” story on Cuba’s newspapers?
Or that ATC report a couple of Saturday’s ago on Obama’s impact on a D.C. middle school?
Or that GREAT edition of “On The Media” from a couple of weekends ago?
Wow, clearly NPR is […]