From the Greenroom at Hot Air, Track-a-crat profiles “A Day in the Life of Michelle Obama.” Remember that I wrote about the colorful abstract print dress included above because she chose that cheerful pattern over her signature funeral director color palette from the Malcolm X line of designer Louis Farrakhan, which she usually favors, to wear [...]
Continuing Brandon Wilson’s countdown of Spike Lee’s 10 Worst Female Characters, via his Twitter page… I posted #8 (Sloane Hopkins, played by Jada Pinkett Smith in Bamboozled), #9 (Clarke Betancourt, played by Cynda Williams in 1990’s Mo’Better Blues), and #10 (Betty Shabazz, portrayed by Angela Bassett in Spike’s 1992 magnum opus Malcolm X) earlier in the [...]...
Where's a privacy advocate when you need one? First, we can't make out in public. Now, a man can't even take an upright nap on a bench in Malcolm X Park without being captured by Flickr user gerdaindc and her like-minded voyeurs. EXIF .
Participants in the demonstration at the federal building in downtown Detroit on November 5, 2009. The action was called by MECAWI to protest the assassination of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah on October 28 by the FBI. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos For Immediate Release Media Advisory Event: Protest the ALPACT Dinner With U.S. Atty. Gen. Holder & the FBI Date: Thursday,...
"GO GET YOUR SHINEBOX" Featuring Over 100 Artists Trying to Survive in This Economy November 21 - December 19 OPENING RECEPTION: NOV. 21, 7-10 PM (NY) 334 MALCOLM X BLVD. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11233 A or C Subway to UTICA AVE....
Dave Neiwert has today's must read, and it's all about Glennsanity playing dumb while asking black conservatives about race . And it let Beck lead exchanges like this, with Beck regular Charles Payne and talk-show host Lisa Fritsch: Beck: How many people here identify themselves as African Americans? (About a third raise their hands) OK -- Why? Payne: It's interchangeable. Beck: But wait, wait. Why...
from Verse Twenty-One When people are influenced by rulers, they do not follow their words but their actions. Therefore if rulers admire bravery, then even if they do not deliberately cause competition and conflict, their countries have many difficulties and will eventually be thrown into disorder by plunder and killing . If rulers admire physical beauty, then even if they do not permit license, their...
Participants in the demonstration at the federal building in downtown Detroit on November 5, 2009. The action was called by MECAWI to protest the assassination of Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah on October 28 by the FBI. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos For Immediate Release Media Advisory Event: Protest the ALPACT Dinner With Atty. Gen. Holder & the FBI Date: Thursday, November...
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard “The true end of Man … is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes; but there is besides another essential – intimately connected with freedom, it is true – a variety...
In the mid-1970's, radical black theologian William R. Jones (author of Is God a White Racist? ) gave a speech at my alma mater, Wesley Theological Seminary. In that speech, he made the suggestion that the near-canonization of Martin Luther King, Jr. was symptomatic of the history of white America finding an acceptable black man as "leader", whereas the African-American community was not...
American Rhetoric published a list of the Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century . Malcolm X delivered Top Speech #91 in Detroit MI on November 10, 1963. Below is audio clip and text of the speech known as 'Message to the Grassroots' . I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between the Black revolution and the Negro revolution. There's a difference. Are they both the same? And...
Before 2009 is over, there's still time to visit the Lenox Lounge and celebrate its 70th year in Harlem. photos from my flickr Opened in 1939, the Lenox Lounge was, according to its website, "the back drop for many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane . The Jazz Club also known as the Zebra Room was once used by the Harlem Renaissance writes James Baldwin and Langston...
This x That: Berlin Wall recreated as giant dominoes, promptly toppled . Berlin: 20 years after the fall . Malcolm X was bisexual. Get over it . 2,500-year-old mystery of missing Persian army solved . Tianna McHugh: The two-year-old who cries herself to death . Curb Your Enthusiasm headed to basic cable . Everything Don Draper said in Season 3 of Mad Men . What’s After The Credits? : An archive...
Photo by bossa67 Just as work to lay down tracks for the H Street NE streetcar line disrupted traffic in August , the District of Columbia Department of Transportation is warning drivers that the ongoing installation of streetcar tracks for the Anacostia Line will change traffic patterns at the intersection of South Capitol Street and Firth Sterling Avenue for the next couple of weeks. New restrictions...
Brooklynite Gallery 334 Malcolm X Blvd, 347-405-5976 Brooklyn Misc. November 21 - December 19, 2009 Opening: Saturday, November 21, 7 - 10 PM Web Site Featuring close to 100 International Artists Trying To survive in This Economic Climate What does it mean for an artist to “survive” in a tough economic climate? Can business ever be “bad” for a diligently working artist? Making...
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