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Movements Mainstreamed, Or Just Another Day In America?

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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.  <a href="”>West and Michael Moore on “Democracy Now!” for the hour yesterday. Okay, legitimate (elite) public recognition for legitimate work. (Perhaps the mainstream will pay a little more attention now.)  But for people and institutions that are supposed to be “grassroots,” it  feels a little too elitist and chummy around these parts, with these (anti?) establishment folks being both sincere and playing their part–as in prescribed role. Perhaps this is just the nature of American society–particularly if you graduated Harvard, as Goodman and West did (and I guess in Goodman’s case, we could argue whether Radcliffe was or wasn’t Harvard when she attended 🙂 ), and worked for the white leftist elite, the way Michael Moore did. What about the grassroots co-host Juan Gonzalez, you might ask? Well, thanks to the Ford Foundation (and “Democracy Now!”‘s significant exposure, I might add), he’s on a book tour. Again, maybe this is just America. Cue Don King–or Tom Hayden. 😉

re: "Like It Is" (1968-2011): Goodbye, Farewell, Amen

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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.

Dear "Occupy Wall Street:" I Admire You, But Would You Please……

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….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!

Randall Kennedy on Barack Obama

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Watch the full episode. See more Tavis Smiley.

Is Tavis getting to be a better, more skeptical interviewer (I guess he should be, after seven years 😉 ), or is he just hatin’ here because of the subject? Either way, good interview.

(And it’s interesting to me that a well-known retired Black journalist who has always believed in being critical of Black leadership is smacking Tavis because he gave a tough interview about a president who has gone out of his way to not serve Black people. Who is the hater, really? :))

Classic, Squared

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WALTER RODNEY’S HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA BACK IN PRINT AND AVAILABLE

Black Classic Press is pleased to announce publication of the groundbreaking study, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by the late historian and political activist Walter Rodney. The title was previously published by Howard University Press. For orders and review copies, contact Black Classic Press at 1-800-476-8870.

On a related note, in May the Provost of Howard University announced the transfer of HUP publishing contracts and assets to Black Classic Press. We were recently informed by the Provost that the transfer has not been reviewed by the HU Board of Trustees, but it is on the agenda for the September Board meeting. At this time, we cannot provide any information on titles formerly published by HUP with the exception of Walter Rodney’s title mentioned above.

W. Paul Coates
Black Classic Press/ BCP Digital Printing
3921 Vero Rd Ste F
Baltimore, MD 21227
410-242-6954
bcpdigital@yahoo.com / blackclassicbooks.com