Great! I’m also excited by the coming film.
R.I.P. Harvey Pekar
…….for trailblazing for all people who even even thought about doing comics. I’ve decided I’m going after his legacy.
And Now We Are Four!
I’m celebrating early for Post 601!
Thanks to/for Saswat, since without him there’d be NONE.
I *Heart* Broadcasting While Black!
Ah, what an appropriate post for Number 600!
Man, I am LOVING the “Broadcasting While Black” site. (Roxie Roker from “The Jeffersons” was a host of one of the shows! LOL!) New material is up, but it takes a LONG time to load. So while waiting, I found the above on Google Video. The show is called “For The People.” Its host is Listervelt Middleton.
A related comment: I have also been LOVING the idea of “Like It Is” being online. I have been slightly disappointed, though, with the reality of the small time window WABC-TV has created on the “Like It Is” page to see the shows. Well, I can now report that many of the episodes that WABC-TV has put online (but moved off of its main page) are available if you search “Like It Is” within Google Video! I knew WABC-TV was not erasing them! YES!!!!!
SEPTEMBER 19th UPDATE: I clearly spoke too soon. The old, “archived” links listed on Google Video don’t work, and “Like It Is” only keeps the current show (or two) on its page. *SIGH*.
So My Friend Liam Asked Me……
……if this picture he took of me was really from six years ago. Seeing how much hair I have here, it clearly is from then! LOL! 🙂
I was so proud then (and still am!) to be included in that book! And it was great meeting Ms. Height (I had interviewed our now-New Ancestor once in the 1990s, over the phone), and being in her headquarters. Far right is Jesse Jackson Jr., the future Second Elected Black President. 🙂
Thanks, Liam!
Okay, Color Me "Team Jacob"…… :)
……since I like siding with the underdog! Hee, hee, hee!!! 🙂
Seriously, just coming back from seeing it. Enjoyed it much more than I thought it would. (Chick flicks are so about [layers of] feelings.) I see it as a “Buffy”/”Angel”-type series that takes itself very seriously. The utter earnestness camethisclose to making me laugh.
Guess I’m signed on for the remaining two.
Next Movies For Me: Potter and the next Narnia (trailer below). Then next summmer: Thor! Captain America! X-Men: First Class! Green Lantern! and The Final Potter! Which really prepares me for the ultimate Marvel Zombie film in 2012.
Wonder Woman In Pants?!? Sacrilege! LOL!
Well, it’s not the first time:
When she was a powerless, Diana Rigg-type secret agent in the late 1960s-early 1970s (the less said about this version, and this era, the better 🙂 ), she wore pants allthetime.
Her wardrobe will change back. After all, there are 70 years worth of merchandizing invested in the current costume.
Here’s my proof: remember when Superman looked like this?
No? Yep, just my point; the “next century” lasted for about a year. 🙂 He was back in his original uniform and powers by his 60th anniversary. Wonder Woman’s 70th anniversary is next year, and she’s just as timeless, so…..
JULY 7th UPDATE:
This is the first cover of Ms. magazine, from 1972. In it, founding editor Gloria Steinem complained about how her childhood hero, the only woman as powerful as Superman, got her powers taken from her. (DC Comics eventually listened, changing her back.) Here’s what she says about the “new” Wonder Woman of 2010.
It's Here! It's Here!
And so the countdown to November 19 officially begins. I predict that when the year ends, it will have, ah, “Eclipse”-ed 😉 the competition.
30 Years And Counting!
CONGRATS to Wayne! (A HistoryMaker, indeed!)
Black Alumni Network
108 Terrell Rd
P.O. Box 6693
Newport News, VA 23606June 28, 2010
For immediate release
Contact: Dan Holly, 919-448-8221
vav@jerrythomaspr.com30th anniversary of alumni monthly committed to media diversity
In July, the Black Alumni Network, a society of Columbia University journalism alumni and friends, celebrates its 30th anniversary. For three decades BA Network’s instrument has been its monthly newsletter. In July 1980, graduate Wayne Dawkins initiated publication with a two-page sheet that he mailed to 25 classmates. Over the years, the founders enlisted alumni from future classes and reached back to men and women in previous classes.
Today the newsletter is circulated monthly to 600 media leaders and also is posted online at journalism.columbia.edu for the 10,000 alumni plus friends of America’s premier graduate school of journalism. In addition, the newsletter has been the most consistent chronicler of the rise of black power within the mainstream media. Two authoritative books on the National Association of Black Journalists were informed by reporting from BA Network correspondents.
The newsletter’s rise has corresponded with the rise in power and influence of members within the network. Among the BA Network’s galaxy of stars are James McBride, ’80, [author of “The Color of Water” and “Miracle at St. Anna”]; Jill Nelson, ’80, [author, “Volunteer Slavery” and “Sexual Healing”]; Mira Thomas Lowe, ’88, [editor of Jet, and first woman to lead that magazine]; sports journalists and classmates George Smith, ’88, and Rob Parker, ’88, of ESPN, Suzanne Malveaux, ’91, CNN White House correspondent, and A’Lelia Bundles, ’76, biographer of Madam C.J. Walker, her great-great grandmother. Bundles is a Columbia University trustee.
BA Network’s three-decade mission has been expanding racial diversity of the media. Its founders took note of the existing “old boy network” of the late 1970s. Rather than complain or sulk, they created an independent instrument in order to build a comparable pool of media talent.
The BA Network’s relentless work has earned the respect and cooperation of university administration and media industry leaders.
A network project is fund raising in order to permanently endow the Black Alumni Network/Phyllis T. Garland scholarship. Since 2006, five scholars have received $5,000 each in order to complete their studies at Columbia J-school.
Editors of the BA Network are available to discuss the state and future of journalism and mass media.
God Bless Rolling Stone!
Issue 1108 – July 8, 2010
Everyone who knows me will tell you I would marry Rolling Stone if I could. 😉 Ah, yes, The Now World-Famous Feature, which finally came in the mail yesterday. As usual, “On The Media” did a great job explaining why McCrystal’s aides felt so free. And as usual, “Democracy Now!” did a great job of illuminating the larger political context. I’m still confused as to the outbursts by David Brooks and Lara Logan, since, like my hero Matt Taibbi, I was taught in journalism school that you don’t worry about the reaction to/results of the story. (Gordon Parks understood this best: I remember reading that he told the Black Panthers and others he covered to not say or do anything in front of him that they didn’t want in Life magazine.) Clearly Brooks and Logan are too close to power to remember that. Logan, the reporter of the two, should know better.
AUGUST 10th UPDATE: I’m sure Hastings is not surprised by this. And I wasn’t surprised by this.
Drums in the Global Village 
