Independent Audio/Video You Should Check Out (Twelfth In A Long-Running Series)

Posted on February 27, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

VoxUnion Media
February 25, 2008

This Jazz & Justice “redux” tribute is paid to Malcolm X in sad honor of this (February 21, 1965) the 43rd anniversary of his assassination. Hear words and music all dedicated to the honor of both the revolutionary and the idea of revolution.

CLICK HERE to download and/or visit voxunion.com for the download/stream option and much more including the latest edition of Roots Revolution from DJ Soul Rebel with the latest on Kenyan political struggle.

—“Once Black youth began to approach the ideas of Malcolm X it became necessary to destroy what he stood for. Once Black youth began to approach the ideas of Malcolm X it became necessary to destroy the man’s image that produced those ideas… if Malcolm were alive today he’d be a political prisoner and we wouldn’t be here having a discussion about {sic} his life… because the political prisoners we have today get no support…”

– Dhoruba bin Wahad

“The Many Sides of Malcolm Part I” by Melki

“The Many Sides of Malcolm” represents the original “Documixtory” done for “Black World Report,” an online radio newsmagazine of The Black World Today and the NNPA, the Black Press of America. It includes speeches from Malcolm (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz), and commentaries from now-ancestors Dr. Betty Shabazz, Dr. John Henrik Clarke and Alex Haley.

Produced in 2001, it pulls audio from the first Malcolm X International Conference in New York City in 1990.

If you are a fan of Malcolm or one who studies history, you will enjoy this fully. Click here to hear the program.

Asante Sana, Sembene Ousmane

Posted on February 25, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Didn’t know about this brother until my friend Wendi Dunlap wrote to me about him today.

Here’s the email she sent:

I must admit that I’m not always the first to know things so forgive me if this is “old news.” While watching the Oscars, I discovered that Senegelese filmmaker and writer Sembene Ousmane passed away last year. For those of you unfamiliar with his work, I highly recommend that you check him out. His work is regularly shown at indie film theaters throughout [New York C]ity and you can pick up his novels at any bookstore.

One of his best known novels is “God’s Bits of Wood,” which was part of the African Literature course when I took it at Cornell. Xala is one of his more critically acclaimed films that critiques both polygamy and the corrpution of modern African leadership. A few years ago I saw “Camp de Thiaroye” at the Film Forum, a brilliant and slightly autobiographical story of how Senegelese soldiers who fought bravely for France in World War II were detained in camps and refused pay by the French colonial government when they returned home. Their military training was seen as a threat to colonial rule and the French never intended to award them for their service in defeating fascism anyway.

If you’re not famliar with Ousmane, I highly recommend that you check him out. He has always been one of my favorite filmmakers.

Best,

Wendi

Can't Wait For……………….

Posted on February 23, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

……….. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” The trailer is here.

I can’t love Indiana Jones more. I just hope the new film won’t be as racist as “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

Two Networks, A New Comicbook…….

Posted on February 9, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Can anything stop “Doctor Who” and its spinoffs “Torchwood” and “The Sarah Jane Adventures” other than them being worn out?🙂

Here’s the link to the new “Doctor Who” comicbook. And if you like cartoons, here.

P.S. If you liked the Peter Davison take on the character, you’ll like this. Then you can watch this—until it’s gone. 🙂

The Return Of "Eyes II"!

Posted on February 3, 2008 by drumsintheglobalvillage

Check out what else PBS will air this month here.

P.S. WETA, my public television station, aired the return of “Eyes I” in primetime last year (and aired all of it on MLK Day of this year), but regulated the somewhat-stronger-in-tone, more Black Power-oriented “Eyes II” to 2 p.m. Sundays. So the opening episodes, the ones dealing with Brother Malcolm and the Detroit rebellion, air today—Super Bowl Sunday. Whatever. 🙂