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 [...]
As always, thanks to Jared Ball for telling me about this!
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
I always thought so. (And I always thought once he got it, I would lobby to become his “Like It Is” producer.) But folks have moved on, so….. Maybe something will happen that we’d like, but I’m not holding my breath. I’m glad the brother, who is, sadly, in grief at this writing, is still on the air [...]
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) [...]
Man, the BBC World Service stuff that NPR airs in the middle of the morning…..! And it’s always fascinating to hear the Black Power Movement discussed in news/history programs. Very rare in American media, which happily and deliberately hides the Black Power Movement within the much more accepted Civil Rights Movement.