This is Edward Norton as Bruce Banner. But it could be Edward Norton reacting to being completely dissed by Marvel Studios.
But to be honest: it really doesn’t matter who plays Bruce Banner. It matters that the Hulk looks real next to Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow and Nick Fury. Onward! Can’t wait!
JULY 27th UPDATE:
……these existed (largely thanks to this brother) and I had never heard of them. My friend Malik told me about them.
Great! I’m also excited by the coming film.
…….for trailblazing for all people who even even thought about doing comics. I’ve decided I’m going after his legacy.
……if this picture he took of me was really from six years ago. Seeing how much hair I have here, it clearly is from then! LOL! 🙂
I was so proud then (and still am!) to be included in that book! And it was great meeting Ms. Height (I had interviewed our now-New Ancestor once in the 1990s, over the phone), and being in her headquarters. Far right is Jesse Jackson Jr., the future Second Elected Black President. 🙂
Thanks, Liam!
And so the countdown to November 19 officially begins. I predict that when the year ends, it will have, ah, “Eclipse”-ed 😉 the competition.
CONGRATS to Wayne! (A HistoryMaker, indeed!)
Black Alumni Network
108 Terrell Rd
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For immediate release
Contact: Dan Holly, 919-448-8221
vav@jerrythomaspr.com30th anniversary of alumni monthly committed to media diversity
In July, the Black Alumni Network, a society of Columbia University journalism alumni and friends, celebrates its 30th anniversary. For three decades BA Network’s instrument has been its monthly newsletter. In July 1980, graduate Wayne Dawkins initiated publication with a two-page sheet that he mailed to 25 classmates. Over the years, the founders enlisted alumni from future classes and reached back to men and women in previous classes.
Today the newsletter is circulated monthly to 600 media leaders and also is posted online at journalism.columbia.edu for the 10,000 alumni plus friends of America’s premier graduate school of journalism. In addition, the newsletter has been the most consistent chronicler of the rise of black power within the mainstream media. Two authoritative books on the National Association of Black Journalists were informed by reporting from BA Network correspondents.
The newsletter’s rise has corresponded with the rise in power and influence of members within the network. Among the BA Network’s galaxy of stars are James McBride, ’80, [author of “The Color of Water” and “Miracle at St. Anna”]; Jill Nelson, ’80, [author, “Volunteer Slavery” and “Sexual Healing”]; Mira Thomas Lowe, ’88, [editor of Jet, and first woman to lead that magazine]; sports journalists and classmates George Smith, ’88, and Rob Parker, ’88, of ESPN, Suzanne Malveaux, ’91, CNN White House correspondent, and A’Lelia Bundles, ’76, biographer of Madam C.J. Walker, her great-great grandmother. Bundles is a Columbia University trustee.
BA Network’s three-decade mission has been expanding racial diversity of the media. Its founders took note of the existing “old boy network” of the late 1970s. Rather than complain or sulk, they created an independent instrument in order to build a comparable pool of media talent.
The BA Network’s relentless work has earned the respect and cooperation of university administration and media industry leaders.
A network project is fund raising in order to permanently endow the Black Alumni Network/Phyllis T. Garland scholarship. Since 2006, five scholars have received $5,000 each in order to complete their studies at Columbia J-school.
Editors of the BA Network are available to discuss the state and future of journalism and mass media.
……seeing, and buying, “Icon: Mothership Connection.” After all these years, Buck Wild still had me in stitches. 🙂
The Sons of Liberty.
Created and Written by Alexander Lagos and Joseph Lagos. Art by Steve Walker. Color by Oren Kramek.
Random House.
176 pages. $12.99.
The Lagos brothers and Steve Walker are not in full command of the (sub-)medium, but the idea of enslaved Africans in the colonies gaining superpowers and becoming African ninjas during the Revolutionary War is a great idea. The art is powerful, but I’m not really a fan of the half-painted, half drawn look here. A little bit over-colored and a lot overwritten, this is a raw work for young readers with great ambitions—weaving Benjamin Franklin, a John Brown-meets-Yoda character, and echoes of “Sankofa.” 🙂 I hope future installments of this story will be leaner, sharper and less wrought, and thus, more powerful.
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story.
Story by Mat Johnson. Art by Simon Gane.
Vertigo/DC Comics.
160 pp. $24.99.
As he did with “Incognegro,”Mat Johnson tells a simple and tragic story in a compelling, nuanced way. The award-winning novelist shades his characters gently, blending humor and pathos together in a way well married to the graphic novel form. Simon Gane is a smart enough artist to keep it simple, keeping the focus on the words and actions. Katrina is the star, supporting star and background scene for bold capers, Blackwater-style operations and minute-by-minute survival. Morality breaks down as fast as the levees, and the novel’s leads have decisions to make, according to situation, history and individual character. All the makings of a great (graphic) novel. I now know to expect nothing less of Johnson.
…..the debate between Jews on Gaza. Once again, NPR’s “On The Media” provides great (mainstream) radio. I also enjoyed the reaction.
……Helen Thomas. Damn. Talk about no one being safe. The real loss is the vaccuum of White House press corps skepticism that will now be all too evident.
…….Wilbert Rideau’s coming out party. Congrats!
…….the woman who claims she got fired from her job because she was too fine. I believe her! LOL! 🙂 Yes, sue, sue, sue! And CONGRATS to my blog sponsor Saswat, who took the inital pictures of her seen around the globe! My friend Saswat is now a prominent photojournalist in addition to being a new daddy and a revolutionary! Hat trick! LOL!
