Archive for March, 2011
That GEICO “Do Dogs Chase Cats?” Commercial
• March 29, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Animals, Comedy, Commercials, Television
Tags: "Bullitt", "Do Dogs Chase Cats?", 30-Second Spot, Car Chases, Comedy, GEICO, Humor, Insurance, Martin Agency, Recreation, Saturday Night Live, Steve McQueen, Television Advertisement, Toonces the Driving Cat, TV Ad
Whoa! Iman Al-Obeidi Married? Plus, A Video From Her Mother
• March 29, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in History, Obama Administration, Women, Education, The Rest of the World, Class, Hate Crimes, War Crimes, American Foreign Policy, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Rape/Sex Crimes, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Africans, Islam/Sufism, Arabs, Sexual Harassment, Revolutions, Libya, Iman al-Obeidi
Tags: Rape, Culture, Islam, Muslims, Time Magazine, Gang Rape, Rape Victim, Honor, Sexual Abuse, Gang Rape Survivor, Lawyer, Law Student, Al Jazeera, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tobruk, Iman al-Obeidi, Benghazi, Tripoli, Politics of Libya, Gaddafi, Eman al-Obeidi, Imam Atik Salih, Eman Al Obaidy, Eman al Obaidi, Aljazeeera, Faraj Ghaithi, Virginity, Moammar Khaddafy, Libyan Youth Movement, Fiancé, Wadad Omar, Al-Aan, Zawiyah, Bab Al-Aziziya, Libyan, Protests, The Libyan Uprising, ايمان العبيدي, Heroine, Martyr, Authoritarian Government, Civil War
The President’s Speech on Libya
• March 29, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Afghanistan, African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, Arabs, Class, Democrats, Egypt, France, Hate Crimes, Iraq, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Libya, Murder/Manslaughter, Obama Administration, Rape/Sex Crimes, Revolutions, Television, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Tunisia, United Kingdom, War Crimes, Women
Tags: African Americans, Africans, al Qaeda, Arab League, Benghazi, Blacks, British Petroleum, Europe, European Interests, Libya, Mideast, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Murder, No-Fly Zone, North Africa, Oil, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Rape, Rebels, The Bill Press Show, The Mic, Torture, United Arab Emirates, United Nations Security Council, United States
The Case of Libyan Iman al-Obeidi: Raping Women Is Still A Terrorist Act
• March 28, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, Arabs, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Hate Crimes, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Libya, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Rape/Sex Crimes, Revolutions, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), War Crimes, Women
Tags: Abuse, Aisha Ahmed, Barbary Pirates, Benghazi, CNN, Democracy, Foreign Press Corps, Hague, Hasan Modeer, Iman al-Obeidi, Law Student, Lebanon, Libya, Link TV, Middle East, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Muslims, Nation Building, NATO, NBN TV, Neo-Colonialism, Nicolas Sarkozy, North Africa, Rebels, Sexual Abuse, The Hague, The Rixos Hotel, Tobruk, Tripoli, Uprising, War
Saturday Night Music, March 26, 2011: En Vogue, “(My Lovin’) You’re Never Gonna Get It,” 1992
• March 26, 2011 • 7 CommentsPosted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, En Vogue, Fashion, Jody Watley, Love, Music, Music Videos, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "(My Lovin') Never Gonna Get It", "Funky Divas", African Americans, Alameda County, American Music Award, Arts and Entertainment, Baltimore, Billboard (magazine), California, Children, Dawn Robinson, EnVogue, Foster & McElroy, Girl Group, Jody Watley, Love, MTV Video Music Awards, Music, New York, Oakland, Oakland CA, Rufftown Records, The Nineties, United States
Serena Williams Shows What She’s Got in An “Unauthorized” Top Spin 4 Ad (w/Update)
• March 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Fashion, Sexuality, Sports, Venus and Serena Williams, Women
Tags: 2K Sports, Anna Kournikova, Ass-ets, Clot, Lung, Maria Sharapova, Marketing, Reverse Psychology, Rileah Vanderbilt, Serena Williams, Tennis, Top Spin 4, Viral, YouTube
Whoopi Goldberg Fumes at Trump’s “Birther” Charges
• March 24, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Democrats, Hoaxes, Journalism and Ethics, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Whoopi Goldberg, Women
Tags: 2008 Presidential Campaign, Barack Obama, Birther, Birthers, Black Man, Black People, Blacks, Business, CEO, Common Sense, Conspiracy Theories, Dictator, Disbelief, Donald Trump, FactCheck, Hawaii, Poll, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, Racists, Republican, The Sixties, The View, United States, Whoopi Goldberg
That “Hey, Marcel” AT&T Commercial
• March 23, 2011 • 17 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, People of Color, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Dark Ride", Andrea Bogart, AT&T, AT&T U-Verse, Black Man, Cable Channels, Commercial, Commercials, General Hospital, Ghost Whisperer, Hey Marcel, Latino, Marcel, Marcel Marceau, Marcello Mastrioanni, My Multiview, Sophia Loren, Syfy, Television, TV Commercial, You Tube
For Recy Taylor, An Apology Is Not Enough
• March 23, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Hate Crimes, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Police Misconduct/Killings, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: Abbeville, Abbeville Alabama, African Americans, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968), Alabama, Black Women, Blacks, Domestic Terrorism, Florida, Gang Rape, Mayor, News conference, Official Apology, Racism, Rape, Republicans, Robert Corbitt, Rosa Parks, Sexual Violence, State Senator Dexter Grimsley, The Forties, Types of Rape, United States, White People
Elizabeth Taylor, 79, Has Died
• March 23, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Awards, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Sexuality, The Heart, The Mainstream Media (MSM), United Kingdom, Women
Tags: "Cleopatra", Academy Award, Academy Award Winner, AIDS, Canada, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Congestive Heart Failure, Dame Elizabeth Rosamund Taylor, Dame Elizabeth Rosemund Taylor, David Gest, Doonesbury, Drama, Dual Citizenship, Elizabeth Taylor, Gay, Health, Hollywood, Larry Fortensky, LGBT, Liz Taylor, Liza Minnelli, Los Angeles, Montgomery Clift, Old Hollywood, Oscar, Puerto Vallarta, Richard Burton, Rock Hudson, Sex, The Sixties, United States, Violet Eyes
Justice At Last For Recy Taylor? (w/Updates)
• March 21, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Domestic Terrorism, Education, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Recy Taylor, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "At the Dark at the End of the Street", Abbeville Alabama, African American, African Americans, Alabama, Apology, Black Women, Blacks, Danielle McGuire, Grand Jury, Henry County, Jim Crow laws, Journal of American History, Lynching, Marriage, Montgomery Bus Boycott, PTSD, Racism, Rape, Recy Taylor, Rep. Dexter Grimsley, Robert Corbitt, Rosa Parks, The Civil Rights Movement, The Forties, The South, The Women's Movement, United States, White Supremacy
Saturday Night Music, March 19, 2011: Sting, “Sister Moon,” 1987
• March 20, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Africans, Big Beautiful Women, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Love, Memoir, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Who I Am, Women
Tags: "...Nothing Like The Sun", "A Clockwork Orange", "Sister Moon", Anthony Burgess, Birthdays, Black Women, Blacks, Dark, Dreadlocks, Earth, England, English Literature, Evil, Full Moon, Good, Light, Literary Allusions, Literature, Lucy Negro, Medusa, Moon, References, Shakespeare, Sonnet, Sonnet No. 130, Sonnets, Sting, Super Moon, The Oakland Colosseum, The Seventies, William Shakespeare
How Come Haiti Can Stand With Japan, But The Rest of The World Doesn’t?
• March 19, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Japan, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, World History
Tags: Akihito, Black Tokyo, Economy, George Clooney, Gilbert Gottfried, Haiti, Hirohito, Hollywood, Hurricane Katrina, Japan, Leadership, Looting, New Orleans, Scavengers, Scavenging, Telethon, The Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami, United States, World Economy, World War II
Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to You
• March 19, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Who I Am
Tags: "As", African Americans, Arts, Astronomy, Birth, Birthday, Birthdays, Blacks, Earth, Herbie Hancock, Holidays, Love, Planets, Self-Love, Solar System, Stevie Wonder, Television, The Beatles
Black Chicagoan Edward Clemons Survived Japan Quake and Tsunami After Days Without Food or Water; Finally Able to Talk With Anxious Mom Back Home
• March 19, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black Expatriates, Black People, Class, Japan, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Travel, World History
Tags: Anderson Cooper, Chicago IL, Chicagoan, CNN, Cynthia Young, Earthquake, Edward Clemons, English, Epicenter, Japan, JET Programme, Junior High, Middle School, Mother, Nancy Grace, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Reporter, Sendai, Son, Students, Teaching English, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, The JET Program, The Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami, Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami, United States
Tiger Woods Visits Jimmy Fallon
• March 18, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Gossip, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Television, Love, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Class, Consumerism, People of Color, Sports, Cultural History, Late Night TV, Celebrity Children, Tiger Woods
Tags: Late Night TV, Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno, Kids, Children, David Letterman, Stephanie Birkitt, Jumpoffs, Spitting, Tiger Woods, The PGA Tour, Golf, Eldrick Tont Woods, Golfer, Eldrick Woods, Elin Nordegren, Golfing, Cheater, Interview, Golf Courses, The Masters, Charlie Woods, Parenthood, Sam Woods, Late Night TV Host, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, Jimmy Kimmel, A Game, Spitting Fines, Bad Golf, No. 5 in the World, Personal Life, Mansion, Single Fatherhood, Raising Children, Raising Kids, Traditional Marriage, Off-Game, Golf Course
New Page for SGI Buddhist Members and Friends Regarding The Japan Crisis
• March 17, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Japan, Natural Disasters, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Who I Am
Tags: Asia, Buddhism, Daisaku Ikeda, Earthquake, Japan, Nuclear Power Plants, Radiation, SGI, Soka Gakkai, Tsunami
Why Should Black People Care About What Happens To Japan? Because Black People Live and Work in Japan, That’s Why
• March 16, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black Expatriates, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Health, Homelessness, Japan, Joblessness, Love, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Travel, Who I Am, World History, World War II
Tags: "The African American Experience in Japan", "The Japan Times", 50 Cent, Aid, Ainu, Akafia, Alexandra Wallace, Assistance, Black Tokyo, Bush II, City, Country, Daimoku, Dear Life Japan, Dobashi's, Earthquake, Eric L. Robinson, Expatriates, Foreigners, Fulbright Fellow, Gai-jin, Gaijin, Gongyo, Gunjin, Homogeneity, Jackson Street, Japan Earthquake, Japanese, Jero, Jerome White, Jerome White Jr., Kokujin, Living in Japan, Meltdown, Miyagi Prefecture, New Orleans, Nichi Bei Bussan, Nichiren Buddhism, Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, Nuclear Reactors, Nuclear Weapons, Okinawans, Outsiders, Payback, Pearl Harbor, Pioneers, Purity, Rastafarianism, Reggie Life, Sendai, SGI Buddhism, Takara in Tokyo, Takara Swoopes Bullock, The Katrina Diaspora, Tofu Factory, Tremors, Tsunami, UCLA, Working in Japan, 東北地方太平洋沖地震
Three Little Sistas Called Watoto From The Nile Put Lil’ Wayne on Blast
• March 14, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Music Videos, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Sexuality, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Black Girls, Black Woman Hating, Black Women, Blacks, Children, Children's Records, Children's Songs, Disrespect, Drugs, Erykah Badu, Gender, Gender Roles, Generations, Growing Up, Hip Hop Culture, Hip Hop Music, iTunes, Jay Z, Kids' Records, LilWayne, Love, Marriage, Misogyny, Nile, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steve Harvey, The Eighties, The Seventies, United States, YouTube
Dedicated to The Wisconsin I Love: Sam Cooke, “A Change Is Gonna Come,” 1964 and The Impressions, “We’re A Winner,” 1967
• March 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Budget Cuts, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Democrats, Discrimination, Education, Joblessness, Labor History, Labor Relations, Lena Taylor, Music, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Revolutions, Sam Cooke, The Economy, The Impressions, The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement, Unions/Union Busting, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: African Americans, Banned, Black Women, Blacks, Bradley Whitford, Capitol Square, Curtis Mayfield, David Prosser, Democratic Party (United States), Ed Schultz, Firefighters Union, Fred Risser, Hundreds of Thousands, Jesse Jackson, Jim Holperin, Jon Erpenbach, Julie Lassa, Kathleen Vinehout, Lena Taylor, Madison WI, Michael Moore, Middle Classes of Color, Pregnant While Lawmaking, Republican, Robert Jauch, Robert Wirch, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Song Lyrics, Spencer Coggs, State Senator Jon Erpenbach, State Senator Lena Taylor, Susan Sarandon, The Capitol Square, The Fab 14, The Fabulous 14, The Impressions, The Middle Class, Throngs, Tony Shalhoub, Wisconsin
Former President Jean Bertrand Aristide Returning to Haiti
• March 12, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, American Foreign Policy, Brazil, Canada, Class, Democrats in Name Only, Education, Exploration and Colonization, France, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Natural Disasters, Obama Administration, Race, South Africa, The Clintons, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Blacks, Danny Glover, Democracy, Drug Cartels, Drug Money, Earthquake, Exile, Exiles, Fanmi Lavalas, Glen Ford, Haiti, Haitians, Harry Belafonte, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Jesse Jackson, Love, Madame Mildred Preval, Maryse Narcisse, Michel Martelly, MINUSTAH, Mirlande Manigat, Organization of American States, Passport, President Jacob Zuma, President Rene Preval, Pretoria S.A., Puppets, Racism, Return, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, South Africa, The Caribbean, The Haitian Earthquake, The United Nations, United Nations Security Council, United States, WikiLeaks
Aretha Says She Didn’t Have Gastric Bypass Surgery, But STILL Doesn’t Say What The Surgery Was About
• March 11, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Health, Protestant Denominations, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "People Magazine", Access Hollywood, Aretha Franklin, Bingeing, Coyness, Fat, Gastric Bypass Surgery, Health, Interviews, Overeating, Pancreatic Cancer, Publicity, Rapid Weight Loss, Singing Tour, Surgery, Vanity, Weight, Wendy Williams
A Big One Hit Japan (w/Updates)
• March 11, 2011 • 4 CommentsPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Japan, Natural Disasters, People of Color, The Mainstream Media (MSM), World History
Tags: 1998 Winter Olympics, 8.9, Asia, California, Canada, Crescent City California, Earthquake, English Language, Hawaii, Japan, Japan Earthquake, Japanese, Japanese Language, Japanese People, Left Coast, Live Streaming, Los Angeles, Nagano, New Guinea, New Zealand, PC World, Richter Scale, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Sendai, Soka Gakkai Japan, The Philippines, Tokyo, Tsunami Warning System, Tsunami Warnings, Tsunamis, United States, West Coast, West Coast of the United States
“Sing Your Song”, a Bio Documentary on Harry Belafonte, Comes to HBO in Fall 2011
• March 10, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Music, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Television, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Shadow and Act", "Sing Your Song", African Americans, Biography, Caribbean-Americans, Civil Rights, Documentary, Gina Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, HBO, Julius R. Nasso, Karol Martesko-Fenster, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Cohl, NeoGriot, Paul Robeson, Sundance Film Festival, The Caribbean, The Futon Critic, United States
“Burning” Madison, “Burning” Wisconsin
• March 10, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American History, American Politics, Budget Cuts, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Joblessness, Labor History, Labor Relations, Obama Administration, The Clintons, The Economy, The Tea Party Movement, Unions/Union Busting, Wisconsin
Tags: "Burning" Kansas, "Burning" Wisconsin, Barack Obama, Collective Bargaining, Democratic, John Brown, Kansas, LiveStream, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, One-Man Rule, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Public Employees, Quantrill, Representative Government, Republican, Sarah Palin, The Fitzgeralds, The Koch Brothers, Triangulation, Union Busting, Unions, United States, Wisconsin
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