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Yes, Cast My Vote For…………
……the return of the Federal Writers Project. It’s a great idea. There is SO MUCH documentation of the 20th century left to do professionally, and thousands of unemployed journalists, so there ya go.
Let’s call it the (Studs) Terkel–(Zora Neale) Hurston Writers Project, and get busy right away! C’mon, Obama! Hook up America’s literary class! 🙂
The Roots As A TV Show House Band?
O-Kay……. 🙂
A Free Man
Required viewing. He makes generations look bad, and that’s good. 🙂
A Belated Asante Sana To……..
Studs Terkel. The man, the work. (Ah, the days of my youth, when I actually thought being an “oral historian” was a JOB! LOL!) 🙂
Third Time Lucky
Boy, between this third cover and last issue’s (true) journalistic hit-job on McCain, Rolling Stone has set a new standard for clarity. 🙂
OCTOBER 30th ADD-ON: I bet Rolling Stone would like this.
You've Been Rick Rolled!
Well, not exactly, but I couldn’t resist! LOL! 🙂
Brief Book Review: Post-HipHoppers
This brand-new book occupies the intellectual space between Kevin Powell’s essay collections and Bakari Kitwana’s seminal work.
M.K. Asante, Jr., a filmmaker, poet and college professor, adds his name to the list of young (under 45 🙂 ) Blacks who’ve written works that seek to combine journalism, personal essays and contemporary history, using hiphop of the point of departure. He is an optimistic self-described “artivist,” a 26-year-old writing to inspire younger people who will pick up this book because of its title. It’ll be their text for Black Contemporary Socio-Political Development 101, and believe me, they need it.
Get this book for the teenager (or college-aged young adult) in your life and make him or her read it. Then make him or her look up all of the authors he mentions.
A Rolling Stone Gathers Much Puff :)
Was in bed the other night with the love of my life—Rolling Stone magazine 🙂 —and all I gotta say is this: Boy, it’s clearly good to be the King. RS Publisher Jann Wenner does a puff-piece Q+A, and then commissions a sidebar all about how Obama’s people are impressive because they actually wield power the way power is SUPPOSED to be wielded? I’m for Obama too, but Sheesh! I’m tempted to put this post in the “Advertising” category. 🙂
A 4-D(!) Movie, Touch-Screens All Over The Place……
…..you’ll just have to see the Newseum for itself. I just can’t do it justice.
Drums in the Global Village 
