…………Ruby Dee for winning the SAG.
It’s the LEAST Hollywood could have done for this Queen Mother, since she didn’t win the Oscar.
Heard About………..
Independent Audio/Video You Should Check Out (Twelfth In A Long-Running Series)
VoxUnion Media
February 25, 2008This 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…”
“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
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
Okay, Here We Go :)
Wow! What a coincidence! This photo was given to Matt Drudge today. He says the Clinton campaign sent to to him. Surprise, surprise!
And now it’s revealed that Obama’s crowds are not being fully frisked? Is this a rehearsal for an assassination attempt? The issue is never going away.
P.S. Yes, I thought the “Saturday Night Live” skit (scroll down just a little bit, ’till you see the “CNN/Univision” graphic) was quite true. 🙂
P.P.S. Even a qualified endorsement from The Minister?!? DAY-AM!
P.P.P.S. Hehehehe…….
"Amazing Power, Ooo, Iron Man!"
Yet another reason I’ll be LIVING at the theater this summer. 🙂
Goodbye, "Girlfriends"………….
………..I’ll miss you, but probably for the wrong reasons! LOL! 🙂 I always did, however, appreciate the issues you raised.
State Of The Obama Union :)
It was one of the better ones—when it was about the candidate who didn’t come.
I greatly enjoyed the dustup about the invitation (scroll down to the bottom of this link to hear Tavis Smiley’s commentary). As I like to say, Tavis keeps trying to be Larry King and Martin Luther King at the same time. It’s a mix that works for him, but he’s not the whole NAACP. He’s a communicator (and book hustler 🙂 ), not a leader. And I’m glad somebody put him in his place.
Hillary Clinton showed up at the end after trying to rip Barack Obama a new one. Before talking with Tavis (and apologizing for her campaign’s racist excesses), she outlined her career to the Black audience, but I was more interested in her view of the present: “We stand at such a historic moment.” Yep. “Unchartered terrority,” indeed.
Can't Wait For……………….
……….. “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.”
Is It Over?
No, not necessarily. (But some smell blood.) The little sister here does not seem really impressed with Hillary’s tactics thus far. 🙂
While I typed this, I watched Hillary Clinton go on the attack on CNN. She might be right, but it still looks desperate.
Drums in the Global Village 