Archive for the 'world history' Category
Comicbook Review: “Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child,” No. 1
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, No. 1 Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Denys Cowan and John Floyd. Vertigo. 32 pp. $2.99. Thriller and chiller. “Requiem, Chapter One: Deep, Dark, Brown” is the title of the first issue of this new Vertigo series. The heroine is learned about literally on the run. By the end, she is profiled while she [...]
The Last Word On…………
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Jason Russell nu dans la rue (Kony 2012) by Spi0n ………The White Savior? How about this? Sad. Physician, please heal thyself. ********************* …..Juan Gonzalez’s great scoop! He’ll get the Pulitizer for this one, since he was robbed for his 911 stories, rewritten here. ******************** ………..Mobeius, the illustrator of two of my favorite fantasy books. THANK [...]
Book Reviews: Cracks and Currents In The Obama Era
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America. Edited by Joanne Griffith. City Lights Books. 207 pp. $16.95. The Classroom and The Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Marc Lamont Hill. Third World Press. 177 pp. $14.95. Three years in, and the major accomplishment of the Age of Obama [...]
Coming Soon: “A Lie Of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X”
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Coming in May. From the Coda: We are publicly arguing about a book because it was a book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, that intellectually birthed so many Black people in the first place. The Autobiography allowed Malcolm to enter our minds, where he witnessed our rebirths. For many of us, he is still there, [...]
Asante Sana, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012I enjoyed covering you a long, long time ago. I was always a bit confused while doing it, because you weren’t charismatic, didn’t have a huge ego and did a lot of work on African issues. Unusual. March 15th UPDATE: Payne Funeral: My9TV.com
Randy Weston, “An African Born In America”
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012Powerful.
Homegirl
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012Once apon a time there was a little girl in the ghetto (in my home ghetto, in fact) who wanted to be a princess. She had the talent (and, yes, beauty) to get away with it. She could sing with the range of her godmother and the articulation, the clarity of her cousin. She found [...]
Thanks, Courtland…….
Saturday, February 4th, 2012…..for keepin’ it real with “Red Tails.” Yep, we saw the same movie—the one with the *%$#$%-up script! (Enjoyed reading the “Letters To The Editor.”) Folks, this film made me want to run out and buy the HBO ’90s joint on DVD! LOL!
Darth Facebook, Darth Google: Cue John Williams
Saturday, February 4th, 2012Sheesh! I was just getting used to this, and now I gotta deal with this and this! (And, of course, I [happily] used Google to find these images! AUUGGGHHHHH!!!!! LOL! )