….the excellent Harlem Book Fair panel on James Baldwin? The S. Pearl Sharp discussion of Baldwin’s Hollywood adventures—trying to produce a film on El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz—was worth the time alone. And Herb Boyd’s masterful work of moderator-as-narrator. And Baraka. Damn. That’s all they wrote.
…..my nephew Andrew Burroughs Jr., who is being honored this week by the Newark Black Film Festival. His film won the Long Narrative Competition. The award, the 2008 Paul Robeson Award, is being presented by Paul Robeson Jr.
JULY 30th UPDATE: My nephew tells me last night Mr. Robeson is sick, so Richard Wesley is doing the honors. Get well soon, Mr. Robeson.
P.S. In an unrelated note, enjoyed this NPR story on Kevin Powell’s Congressional run. Congrats to you too, K.P.
P.P.S. More unrelated: Congrats to Pacifica’s “Democracy Now!” and NPR’s “Tell Me More” for actually covering what Obama said at “Unity” about reparations, et. al.
Way, way back when I thought that one day (today) I’d be a famous pundit, I looked forward to locking horns with right-wingers like Tony Snow. His end-of-show commentaries on “Fox News Sunday” never failed to make my teeth grit and shout obscenities at the screen. I looked forward to him one day attacking me by name, seeing it as a badge of honor.
Cat was born to be White House Press Secretary. He should have been in that role for the whole eight years. Bush would’ve been able to lie better.
While watching coverage of his death, I was sincerely moved by the great love he had for his family. So I wish that family well in its time of grief.
I like “NOVAScienceNOW,” even though I’m not hosting it. 🙂 Believe me, that’s high praise. It’s clear we’re in the Golden Age of the Magazine—the BROADCAST magazine. I’m happy that I can listen to three national Black(ish) radio newsmagazines in a week, watch the NOVA spinoff show every summer and check out what the brother’s doing on “History Detectives,” but it’s hard to let the dream go of working full-time for a national (Black) general interest magazine. (Aside: It’s really too bad that too many of these broadcast magazines don’t have full-time [or sometimes any!] correspondents.) Soon it’ll be time for the local library to get my Gordon Parks autobiographies, I guess.
Okay. A work of satire. I get it. Confront the enemy directly, blah, blah, blah…….. But boy, some folks are really upset! I got a relative who wants to [CENSORED] The New Yorker building!
The news media pretend it’s hard to tell a deliberate slam from a sham these days. For instance, The Reverend Nutslicer. Does anyone other than me believe Jackson Sr. purposely made his “gaffe” so that white moderates in swing states would be more comfortable voting for Obama in November? Saying what he said while wired to a FOX News microphone? C’mon……..
I mean, how upset could Jackson really be about what Obama said (and repeated last night), since The Good Reverend has said the exact same things for years and years? (I never forgot how, in the 1990s, Jackson Sr., discussing crime in the Black community, publicly talked about how relieved he now was to discover that the person walking down the street at night right behind him was white.) I mean, the fact that his son is going to get Obama’s Senate seat (and didn’t Jesse Jr. set the speed record for responses? 😉 ) has nothing to do with allathis, right? 🙂
…..so I’ll leave it to the audience as to whether this episode of “Click & Clack’s As The Wrench Turns,” the new “Car Talk” animated series I saw over the weekend, is borderline racist. I know that if I was from India I’d be getting tired of this kind of thing. And what’s up with every person of color in the garage sounding like they escaped from 1970s network sitcoms?
………there’s NOTHING like when ALL your favorite shows cross-over, especially for the first time EVER! In this case, “Torchwood” and “The Sarah Jane Adventures,” with (storylines from all four seasons!) of the revived “Doctor Who!” WOO-WOO!
Attractive couple, huh?
The duo are the “Today” show’s new wedding couple. LaDonna and Darnell won the contest to have their wedding on the show.
I was home, so I checked it out. It was a bit weird to see network morning hosts covering a wedding. The couple didn’t even get a chance to hug family members; immediately after the live ceremony, they walked over to the “Today” folks to be interviewed! For three segments! LOL! Even the reception was covered.
Yeah, I’m sure it’ll make a great wedding video, but I keep wondering if the couple (or their families) will themselves create an “edited” version, taking all those NBC folks out. 🙂
The kind of conversation I love. The artist talks about his life and his art. Damn.
“America was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.”
-George Carlin, 1937-2008
