My dream is that one day we’ll have a conference on the diary.
https://www.theroot.com/new-malcolm-x-diary-reveals-a-revolutionary-optimist-1790876235
Category Archives: books
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Book Mini-Review: A Clock Approaching Midnight Encourages An African Writer’s Memory Bombing
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
New York and London: The New Press. 209 p., $25.99.
Books are weird containers now because, formerly/formally, they were a way to combine things that would probably never be found on their own because they existed only in memory or microfilm/fiche; with the new century a quarter old, books are still necessary so people can listen to one container, at their own speed, instead of setting up a 10-hour #YouTube playlist. This mini-reader, kind of a ” #NgugiwaThiongo 101″ that would be perfect for an undergraduate class, is highly readable and approachable, with only a few notes at the end. It’s a compilation of some of the artistic activist’s presentations, essays, speeches, lectures and panel presentations, organized thematically. The shocking fact that there’s no introduction, no attempt to summarize such an amazing life of ideas and risk for them, makes sense when the reader realizes that wa Thiong’o, a literary legend still alive and thriving, is 87 and has been writing novels and his multi-volume memoir series from childhood up to his famous 1977 arrest, convicted of essentially strong playwrighting in his native Kenya. The first half of the essay collection summarizes his beliefs about how European colonial languages are incredibly effective in setting up an intellectual and psycho-social hierarchy so dominant that some African nations argue, or worse, don’t argue, about English being their official language. The second is his scattered memories of many of his continental artistic and activist contemporaries, written in essays so short and plain that it seemed he wanted to make sure to get them down as fast as possible. But when you are wa Thiong’o, even phoning it in is to walk boldly as an African through the 20th- and 21st-centuries, constantly measuring the meanings and contradictions of neo-colonialism and other difficult, incomplete freedoms.
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Book Mini-Review: #BlackBoomers Teach #Movement101
A Protest History of the United States.
Gloria Browne-Marshall.
Boston: Beacon Press, 360 pp., $31.95.
New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement.
Juan Williams.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 288 pp., $28.99.
These books have never been more timely than today since they will probably be blocked from being adopted in school libraries and taught at universities across several states. Marshall, a modern-day, award-winning hyphenate in a way the late #MayaAngelou would be impressed with, and Williams, often known as a liberal (contrarian), both give context to the evening news’ #PresidentTrump executive orders. Both explain how the war is never-ending and that protest is constant and normal when you are up against oppression, whether historically naked or cloaked in the latest fashions. Williams attempts to B.C. and A.D. two different and consecutive #CivilRightsMovements, with #BarackObama on the cross. The first is the traditional, analog, PBS one (and Williams is an expert, having written the original #EyesonthePrize companion book) and the second is the one we have now–digital, fast and furious, with #BlackLivesMatter demanding the right to grow and make mistakes in public. (As we know and as Williams writes, the organized white-nationalist, right-wing response is equally digital but more deadly.) Marshall dissects protest to illustrate that it is, among other things, “primal” and an “investment,” the carbon dioxide exhaled within the racist/sexist/capitalist carbon-monoxide-filled American experiment; it is a visceral and always-correct response to the Dollar Eagle’s generations of Nos and Thou Shalt Nots. If #LeroneBennett and #HowardZinn adopted a child and raised her, it would be Marshall. And if Newark Mayor #RasBaraka #MayorRasBaraka #NewarkMayorRasBaraka is right in that perhaps the only legitimate thing about America is the struggles within it for democracy, then these Boomerooks 🙂 should only be read outside on campuses, in between demands for #Palestinian grad students–the new, respectable #politicalprisoners!–to return to a 2025 America the authors know all too well from the historic shadows and breaking-news currents they present and represent.
My Favorite #Superman Stories
A #YouTube channel asked. My response was so long and detailed that I decided to list in there and keep it for myself. 🙂
(OCTOBER 20th UPDATE:)
2) #Superman vs. #MuhammadAli #SupermanvsMuhammadAli (second only by a whisker :))
3) #WhateverHappenedToTheManofTomorrow
5) #KingdomCome
6) #SupermanvAtomMan #SupermanvsAtomMan (original radio version, not movie serial)
7) Apokolips….Now”/”Legacy” from #SupermanTAS
8) #Hereafter (both parts) from #JusticeLeagueTAS
9) #Alive / #Destroyer from #JusticeLeagueUnlimitedTAS
10) #SupermanForAllSeasons
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10) “Superman” (first of the 1940s animated film shorts)
11) “Superman’s Wife” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman
12) “We Have A Lot To Talk About,” #LoisandClarkTheNewAdventuresofSuperman3x1
13) “The Wedding of Superman,” from the 1950s TV series #AdventuresofSuperman
14) “Terror from the Phantom Zone,” from #Superfriends Season 3 (first segment of hour which contained #ChallengeoftheSuperfriends)
15) “Universe of Evil,” from #Superfriends Season 4
16) #Superman No. 1 from 1939
17) #1940sSundaynewspapercomicstrips
HONORARY STORY: #SupermanforallSeasons
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Drums in the Global Village 