My Favorite Black Public Affairs Television Program
Friday, June 27th, 2008Okay, it’s official: “Bill Moyers Journal” is my favorite honorary Black public affairs program. If Tony Brown wasn’t semi-retired, I guess he’d be worried! LOL!
Archive for the 'television' Category
The King’s Tome
Monday, June 16th, 2008The new biography of Jack Kirby really isn’t that; it’s an authorized, more-polite-than-it-should-be version of his life used as an excuse to showcase his great art. And thank God for it.
Jack Kirby is responsible for two-thirds of every childhood smile I ever made. Period. The Fantastic Four. The Silver Surfer. The Incredible Hulk. The Mighty Thor. The [...]
Belated Condolences To……..
Monday, June 16th, 2008…..the families of Harvey Korman, who I will always think of first as The Great Gazoo, and second as that hysterically funny man on “The Carol Burnett Show”
and to Tim Russert.
When Russert first took over “Meet The Press,” I wasn’t very excited. He seemed to turn a serious, sober news program that used to feature [...]
Woo-Woo! A Black Panther Cartoon!
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Man, am I READY for this!
And for the uninitiated……..
No! Anyone But Tosh!
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
First Maid Marian on “Robin Hood,” and now this? Damn BBC!
Zora Is My Name!
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Yes, it is. And you’ll be on “American Masters” tonight. I can’t wait.
Brick City (And Kerner Plus 40), Bay-bee!
Monday, April 7th, 2008Much better, on LEVELS, than the journalistic hit-job he did on my hometown in 1986.
A 4-D(!) Movie, Touch-Screens All Over The Place……
Sunday, April 6th, 2008…..you’ll just have to see the Newseum for itself. I just can’t do it justice.
And Now, Season Four
Friday, March 28th, 2008And just when I swore I was not going to watch it illegally online this season, that I was not going to care so much this time because of Freema getting the boot (well, sort of).
*SIGH*
Can Both The Slave And The Slavemaster Be Right?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Once upon a time, one of the greatest writers America has ever produced, Amiri Baraka, covered the 1988 Democratic National Convention for Essence magazine. (Baraka later wrote a whole book-length essay on Jesse Jackson’s relationship with Black people from the assignment.) In the excerpt I read in Baraka’s reader, he quotes Jackson as the Reverend [...]