Category Archives: world history
Wait, 10 is 14 Again?!? Yeah, that’s “Doctor Who” Math For You :)
As the ultimate David Tennant-as-10th-Doctor fan, I can’t explain to you how much I am against his return. So I can’t tell you how happy this trailer makes me!!! LMAO!!!!!
(For those who need catching up: Previously…..)
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Dr. #JaredBall And I Discuss The Book “Prophet Of Discontent: Martin Luther King And The Critique Of Racial Capitalism”
Wheee!!!! The Rising Tide of Trump TV

And we’ll have fun, fun, fun….. ๐ It’s clear that MSNBC has practiced on Donald Trump for years like Olympics training. ๐ The fact that it finally has something simple to explain–counting votes, Mob-like behavior, holding secret documents, white men trying to be above the law–really helps. I never understood one word of its RussiaGate coverage.
Joy Reid, Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow are Ivy(ish)-educated talented writers and broadcasters who were born perhaps for this exact moment. (Conversely, do you think that our Ivy-educated young sis, Abby Phillip, is ready to sound like them? Does she have the emotional strength/anger level to go for the jugular? Will CNN let her do so?) They get to finish a narrative they’ve been carrying on every afternoon/night for years. Reid has been really serious these last 10 days or so, and I like her that way instead of her many failures at trying to provide Jon Stewart/Trevor Noah-type entertainment. Maddow clearly wants to be a contemporary historian. And the Morning Joe team enjoys writing Trump’s obit every day.
I’d feel much better about this if MSNBC would re-hire the former in-house rebel Tiffany Cross. She did nothing wrong but be herself and tell her truth, 1969-style. But I guess one Al Sharpton is enough for the network, and even he won’t talk that way anymoreโฆ.
PO1135809: Racketeering, โA Criminal Conspiracy,โ (American) Enterprise (contโd)
Racketeering, “A Criminal Conspiracy,” (American) Enterprise
Mumia Abu-Jamal For Green 2024 VP? Dhoruba bin Wahad Thinks So
Here’s the whole thing:
Interesting That These Rich, Famous Network Anchors/Hosts…..



…..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:
R.I.P. Tina Turner: The Original “Wardrobe Malfunction?”
Insert your own Afrocentric comment about white men here ๐
Dr. #JaredBall and I Discuss Jonathan Eig’s “Martin Luther King, A Life” On #BlackPowerMedia
Hands-down, one of our better public discussions, on #BlackPowerMedia or anywhere.
Correcting the now-typical goof I make when I talk too long ๐ : I think it’s more accurate to say that Mahatma Gandhi was a supporter of African independence in his later years, not a Pan-Africanist per se.

