Back to a time when, as Dr. Jared Ball said to me on Black Power Media last year, “we thought we were happier. ” 🙂
Back to a time when, as Dr. Jared Ball said to me on Black Power Media last year, “we thought we were happier. ” 🙂
🙂
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432
https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/bbc-protest-refusing-hamas-terrorists-israel-1235758237/
Meanwhile, on Al-Jazeera English…..
CONTEXT: This interesting (pre-SAG-strike) article contextualizes what has happened in TV land and this one adds to guesses of what may happen next.
…..have openly demoted themselves to special correspondents. I’d like to think it’s a public commentary on the limitations of network anchoring and a true hunger to produce 20th-century, middlebrow magazine-like narrative–and those professional aspects might play a part. But hearing these goodbyes, it really sounds more like the intimate results of a work-life balance self-inventory, a real understanding that they are in a post-COVID/pre-old-age-illness vortex. (I mean, even Amy Goodman–who used to helm Democracy Now! no matter how sick she got!–actually took a day off last week to be part of a relative’s graduation.) In Chuck’s case, it’s almost like someone in his family told him, “You’re missing it.” Well, now he, Judy and Rachel won’t.
SEPTEMBER 10th UPDATE:
I wanted to fix some goofs and omissions here from this November 2022 interview. The name of the Philadelphia NAACP president I didn’t remember was Cecil Moore. The “Hinton” I mentioned was Elizabeth Hinton. Also, I meant “ECO-system,” not “ECHO-system.” And the documentary with Raoul Peck was Exterminate All The Brutes, available on HBO Max, platform also containing 40 Years a Prisoner, Mike Africa Jr.’s journey with his MOVE parents.