Oh, dear. I had a lot of...
Chapomatic (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Oh, dear. I had a lot of respect for Alex Haley, but this sounds damning.
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Malcolm X- tell me your thoughts.....
The BN Village (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Greetings Brothers and Sisters, I am currently reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, I have not seen the film, but was interested to know about his life. What sparked this was my father was painting a depiction of Malcolm X's murder, it made me question who this powerful man was. My Dad's painting was so honest it inspired me to read about him. I love to read, I would really benefit...
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Malcolm X was bisexual, a sex-worker for nearly ten years
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it | Peter Tatchell | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk I've never heard this before. Malcolm's complex, changing sexuality was never part of the narrative of his life until the publication of Bruce Perry's acclaimed biography, Malcolm – The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America. Perry is a great admirer and defender of Malcolm X, but not an uncritical one. He...
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This Day in Theater History (“Fiddler on the Roof,” Musical of a Lost World, Opens)
A Boat Against the Current (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
September 22, 1964— Fiddler on the Roof arrived at a watershed moment in American culture and swept all before it when it premiered on this date at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. Set in a Jewish shtetl in Czarist Russia, it came toward the end of the Golden Age of the Broadway musical and the Great American Songbook . But it also served as a leading indicator of both the generation gap of...
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Al Qaeda and ‘Rakan Ben Williams’ Join The G.O.P in Terrorizing Obama and ‘Kunta Kinte’
PoliticalArticles.NET (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
Notes: Kunta Kinte is the central character of the novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries Roots, based on the book. Haley described his book as faction – a mixture of fact and fiction. Kunta Kinte was a Muslim of the Mandinka tribe. Kunta [...]
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Getting Back to Roots: Alex Haley’s Epochal Novel Roots Turns 33
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
If you are of a certain age and were anywhere near the United States in early 1977, you probably remember the phenomenon that was the first airing of the television miniseries Roots , the opening episode of which figures in this video. The series emerged from Alex Haley's "genealogical novel" of the same name, published 33 years ago this week, on September 12, 1976. The book excited controversy,...
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White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
iCommandant (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
John Wilson (Executive Director, White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities), LCDR Zeita Merchant, and the Commandant Originally uploaded by uscgpress Shipmates, The Coast Guard began a new phase in our growing partnership with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) this week, as we were a sponsor of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. We also supported the...
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This week in Television History: August 2009 Part III
CHILD OF TELEVISION (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Listen to me next week on TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte Broadcast LIVE every other Monday at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on Shokus Internet Radio . The program will then be repeated Tuesday through Sunday at the same time (10pm ET, 7pm PT) on Shokus Radio for the next two weeks, and then will be posted on line at our archives page at TVConfidential.net . As always, the further we go...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
cynosure \SY-nuh-shoor; SIN-uh-shoor\, noun: An object that serves as a focal point of attention and admiration. That which serves to guide or direct. [Capitalized]. The northern constellation Ursa Minor, which contains the North Star; also, the North Star itself. Cynosure derives from Latin cynosura, from Greek kunosoura, "dog's tail, the constellation Ursa Minor," from kuon, kun-, "dog"...
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The Roots of Roots
SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Alex Haley the author of Roots and 'The Autobiography of Malcom X' , who should be rembembered for describing China detonating its first atomic bomb as the greatest thing that has ever happened in the 20th century to the black people, was born on this day in 1921. The following article concerning Roots first appeared in the Socialist Standard of May 1977.IN HIS CLOSING WORDS to the Author's
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* Shades of Crash Davis
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelfh (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
In this article on the Atlanta Braves’ Brian Barton, the write pretty much brands the ballplayer an egghead. Last summer, during his first full season in the major leagues, he read 17 books. He recently finished off the 900-page “Roots” by Alex Haley. Which made me think of this line from Bull Durham by Max Patkin to [...]
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LeVar Burton After The Rainbow
Black Gay Gossip (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Most of us know him from the long-running PBS series, Reading Rainbow or for his portrayal as Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley’s Roots, but LeVar Burton has taken on a new role. Burton is starring in a new play, The Caterer, at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, where he plays a man that [...]
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Mitochondrial DNA can be Useful for Genealogy
About Genealogy (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
A few weeks ago the story of "Roots" author Alex Haley's Scottish ancestry made news at the Who do You Think You Are? LIVE show in London. Now, Rita Rubin...
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DNA testing: 'Roots' author Haley rooted in Scotland, too
USA Today (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Thanks to technology that became available after the Roots author Alex Haley's death in 1992, nephew Chris Haley recently uncovered ...
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Tagged! 25 Authors Who Influenced Me
Hey Shae! (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
I’ve been tagged by Regina of Regina’s Family Season. She’d like to know 25 authors who have influenced me. Like to hear it? Here it goes: (In no particular order.. of course) Alex Haley Mya Angelou Richard Wright Lorraine Hansberry J.D. Salinger Angela Davis Dr. Cornel West Nikki Giovanni Gil Scott Heron Alice Walker Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) Tennesee Williams Anais Ninn (hot, hot,...