Cover Lay Down (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Cover Lay Down generally publishes twice a week, on Sundays and Wednesdays; much more, and real life starts to lose out. But occasionally, when the moments warrants it, we like to sneak in a short post here and there. Today, when technogeek, sci-fi author, and new parent Cory Doctorow noted [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
She will be remembered for having vowed to "continue singing and never retire."
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Hard to believe that Al Qaida has sunk as low as what has been allowed to pass for “leadership” in the African-American community! Read ...
Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
AP reports that "Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet", Rush reminds us that it's deja vu all over again. As a one critic wrote in 2002:When a black public person like Harry Belafonte calls another African-American a slave...
Pundit Review (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message CAIRO,Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims [...]
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Al-Zawahri also called Obama — along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice — “house Negroes.” WOW…Zawahri listens to Harry Belafonte music. Under those robes lives a fine Calypso dance…Ya’ Mon! Bring me de bananaaa. Posted in Uncategorized
this blog is full of crap (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
So let me get this straight... It's not okay for Al-Qaeda to call Obama a "House Negro." But it was okay among radical liberals for Harry Belafonte to call Condi Rice and Colin Powell the same term? Psst. It's not okay for anyone to be called that. Even Cynthia McKinney... because she'd make one hell of a lousy servant.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
South Africa was yesterday thrown into shock and mourning following the death of South African singing legend, Miriam Makeba.
The Opinion Mill (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Odetta Gordon was part of the touring company for the musical Finian’s Rainbow in 1949 when she dropped in on a folk music club and turned her world upside down. Thereafter she was a key figure in the burgeoning folk revival, and her political activism earned her the title “Queen of folk music” from Martin [...]
sushil (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Size:426mb, 192kb mp3 CD 1 01. PERRY COMO - MAGIC MOMENTS 02. BOBBY VINTON - ROSES ARE RED (MY LOVE) 03. THE PLATTERS - ONLY YOU (AND YOU ALONE) 04. DORIS DAY - WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE (QUE SERA, SERA) 05. PERCY FAITH - A SUMMER PLACE 06. THE PLATTERS - THE GREAT PRETENDER 07. HARRY BELAFONTE - BANANA BOAT (DAY-O) 08. HARRY BELAFONTE - MATILDA, MATILDA 09. DALIDA - ITSI BITSI PETIT BIKINI 10. LIZA...
UPTOWNflavor (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
h/t: Blackstar On Sunday, November 16, MAMA AFRIKA: A TRIBUTE CONCERT FOR MIRIAM MAKEBA, featuring Harry Belafonte, Randy Weston, Les Nubians, Somi, Wumni, Bakithi & Robbi Kumalo, Francis Mbappe, Jojo Kuo, Leopoldo Fleming, Dominic Kanza, Loide Jorge, Tony Cedras and others, will be held at Le Poisson Rouge (www.lepoissonrouge.com) at 158 Bleecker Street, Manhattan, at 7:30 [...]
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
South Africans held a public memorial today for Miriam Makeba, one of Africa's best-known voices and a champion of the fight against apartheid during three decades in exile.
The Age (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Hundreds pay their last respects to music legend and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba.
Pop + Politics (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
South African singer and Grammy Award-winner Miriam Makeba passed away this week at the age of 76. Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. After achieving success in her own country, she was launched on the international scene in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back, Africa, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in 1959. From there, she [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
The curtain has drawn on the illustrious living and career of the high priestess of African Music.
