I especially liked when Herb Boyd and Betty Dopson read from “Black Is The Color of My TV Tube.” As an undergraduate, I had that book glued to my body the way many students kept “The Autobiography” in their knapsacks. Bill Cosby said pretty much everything I would have said if I had been on this last show.
Category Archives: american history
U.S. Supreme Court Says, "Not My Business……."
…..so I guess 30 (!) years in, they’ll be more legal wrangling before the inevitable. Not exactly a victory, as Pam Africa said here.
Jon Stewart: Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
🙂
Asante Sana, Derrick Bell
Asante Sana, Fred Shuttlesworth
Well done, sir. The Realm of the Ancestors has another champion.
Asante Sana, Lydia Barashango
I will never forget your cooperation and kindness as I reported and wrote one of my all-time favorite stories. May The Ancestors greet you into their realm with great joy.
Dear "Occupy Wall Street:" I Admire You, But Would You Please……
….read about the Civil Rights, Black Power, and anti-Vietnam Movements so you can understand how police respond when you threaten white property and capitalism. (You can start, of course, with my book and this one I’m in. 😉 This classic I’m currently scanning-to-re-reading will help as well.) Boy, your white skin REALLY shows here! LOL!
Asante Sana, "Like It Is"
A magnificent 43-year run comes to an end. If people do what they’re supposed to do, this program will neither be gone or forgotten. So let’s just wait and see.
"Shake It Off?!?" "Stop Complaining?!?" Negro, Please
Uh, Mr. President, just a word. You stand with people WHO STAND WITH YOU. Your examples were about people WHO STOOD BY EACH OTHER. And why is it always “We” when you speak to the CBC and the NAACP, and “the American people” for the other 363 days?
SEPTEMBER 27th UPDATE: And check this out:
SEPTEMBER 30th UPDATE:
And this:
OCTOBER 6th UPDATE: And this.
Congrats To………
……my friend Ericka Blount-Danois, who produced this great article on one of my all-time favorite television shows!
