Archive for the 'Books' Category
It’s Maurice Sendak’s Birthday! Google Doodles a Tribute to An American Illustrator and His Beloved Children’s Books
• June 10, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Animals, Art, Books, Class, Cultural History, Love, Maurice Sendak
Tags: Children, Children's Books, Doodle, Google, Growing Up, Gumby, In the Night Kitchen, Lauren Davis, Maurice Sendak, New Zealand, United States, Where the Wild Things Are
This Sista Has No Life After “The Red Wedding”
• June 6, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in Black People, Race, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Women, Television, Love, Sexuality, Film, Class, Acting, Cultural History, Television Series, HBO
Tags: Sex, African Americans, Blacks, Murder, Love, HBO, "Inglourious Basterds", Quentin Tarantino, Memorial Day, Game of Thrones, A Storm of Swords, Red Wedding, Natural Born Killers, Amanda Marcotte, Talisa Maegyr, House Stark, House Frey, House Lannister, "A Song of Ice and Fire", Westeros, King of the North, The Patriarachy, Song of Ice and Fire
Those Cartoons from Facebook, March 25, 2013
• March 25, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Democrats, Discrimination, Education, Facebook, Health, Immigration, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, Rosa Parks, Voter Suppression, Women
Tags: "Racial Entitlements", Antonin Scalia, Book Lovers, Cartoons, Chores, Emory University, Facebook, Faux Noise, Fox News, High Water Pants, Impressions, Italian American, Limousine Liberals, Marky Mark, Misconceptions, Misinformation, Political Cartoons, Republicans, Rosa Parks, Sagging Pants, Scalia, Science, Social Statements, Suffrage, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, Three-Fifths Compromise, Voting Right Act, Voting Rights, Voting Rights Act, White House
Richard Blanco Delivers the Inaugural Poem–He Is Who He Is In Spite of His Cubana Grandmother
• January 21, 2013 • 1 CommentPosted in American History, American Politics, Arts, Books, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cuba, Cultural History, Immigration, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: Barack Obama, Blanco, Child Abuse, Colorado, Cuba, Cuban, Cubana, Florida International University, Gay, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Growing Up, Inaugural Poem, Inauguration of Barack Obama, Latina, Latino, Latinos, LGBT, Love, Poet, Poetry, President Obama, Racism, Richard Blanco, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, United States
Audra McDonald and Stephen Colbert Duet The Gershwins’ “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess”
• March 12, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Love, Music, Race, Republicans in Name Only, Sexuality, Stephen Colbert, Women
Tags: African Americans, Audra McDonald, Bess, Black Women, Blacks, Broadway, Drama, George and Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin, Love, McDonald, Musicals, Porgy, Porgy and Bess, Racism, Stephen Colbert, Theatre, Truthiness, United States
A Work in Progress Trailer of “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
• March 10, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Alice Walker, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Fiction Writing, Film, Love, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Alice Walker, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, British Film Institute, Danny Glover, Film Documentary, LGBT, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Love, March 2012, Movies, Pratibha Parmar, Racism, Rebecca, Rebecca Walker, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Walker
Will The Real Model of Black Maleness Please Stand Up? Is It Barack or Curtis (50 Cent)?
• February 28, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Gang Violence, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, Race, Sexuality, The Economy, The N Word, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "Ghetto Qu'ran", "The African American Portal", "The Game", 50cent, African Americans, Barack Obama, Black Manhood, Black Women, Blacks, Children, Common Sense, Drama, Film Documentary, FLOTUS, Ghetto Qu'ran (Forgive Me), Gray Hair, Growing Up, Irv Gotti, Jam Master Jay, Jodi Kantor, Maleness, Masculinity, Michelle Obama, Mitt Romney, Murder, Obama, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Pwn'ed, Racism, Republicans, Samuel L Jackson, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, The First Lady, The Nineties, The View, Twitter, United States, Young Buck
Where Have I Been, and Where Am I Going?
• February 7, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Memoir, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Suicide
Tags: Barack Obama, Bishop Eddie Long, California, Detroit, Don Cornelius, Eddie Long, Employment, General Motors, Louisiana, Minimum wage, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Republicans, Richard Tee, Super Bowl, Tom Scott, Unemployed, United States, Wage
How Buddhism Changed This Young Black Brother’s Life
• November 21, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Arts, Black People, Books, Class, Comedy, Consumerism, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Gang Violence, Joblessness, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, The Economy, Women
Tags: African Americans, AR, Blacks, Buddhism, California, Chino XL, Common Sense, Daimoku, Donnie Darko, Gohonzon, Immortal Technique, Inner Development, iTunes, Killah Priest, Lord Brilliant, Peace, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, SGI Buddhism, SGI-USA, The Lower Four Worlds, United States, Young Men's Division, Youth Division
Centino Kemp, Bishop Long Accuser, Claims Suicide Attempt, But The Other Accusers and Some Friends Aren’t Buying His Story
• November 12, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, Black People, Books, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Notorious", "Signs of a Predator", "Wild Child Kemp", African Americans, Alexander, Atlanta, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Book, Caribbean, Centino, Centino Kemp, Child Sexual Abuse, Children, Dale Russell, Eddie Long, Famous, Gay, Jamal Parris, Kemp, Mental Health, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Safety, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Spencer LeGrande, The Black Church, The Caribbean, The First Lady, Transvestite, United States, Willie Alexander
Proving That “Hogan’s Heroes” Lied to You: An Op-Ed + Video Regarding Blacks in Germany, Past, Present and Future
• October 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, Belgium, Black People, Books, Cameroon, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, France, Germany, Haiti, Mental Health/Psychology, Namibia, People of Color, Race, The Rest of the World, War Crimes, World War II
Tags: "Black Survivors of the Holocaust", "Hitler's Forgotten Victims", "Hogan's Heroes, African Americans, Belgian, Biracials, Black, Black Women, Blacks, Cameroon, Colonization, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Genetic Experiments, Geneva Convention, German, Germany, Gestapo, Growing Up, Haitian Creole, Hans Hauck, Holocaust, Ivan Dixon, Jean Marcel Nicolas, Jean Voste, Jews, Josephine Baker, Kalamu ya Salaam, Lari Gilges, Mein Kampf, MeTV, Namibia, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Nazism, NeoGriot, Racial Purity, Racism, Rhineland Bastards, Staff Sgt. Kinchloe, Sterilized, Tanzania, Togo
Eddie Long: The Bishop Wants His Money Back After His Accusers Breach Confidentiality, But That’s Not As Easy As It Seems; Plus Some of His Parishioners Are Suing Him for Fraud and The Feds Are Now Involved
• October 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Books, Class, Consumer Fraud, Cultural History, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Anthony Boyd, Anthony Flagg, Atlanta, B.J. Bernstein, Bishop, Bishop Eddie Long, Brenda Joy Bernstein, Burglary, Centino Kemp, Church Improprieties, Confidentiality Agreement, Downlow, Drama, Eddie, Eddie Long, Ephren Taylor, Fraud, Georgia, Investments, IRS, Jamal Parris, Jesus, Kemp, Lillian Wells, Lithonia GA, Maurice Robinson, New Birth, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Non-disclosure agreement, Parishioners, Plaintiffs, Queen, Scandal, Secret Service, Sex, Sexual Abuse, Social Networking, Spencher LeGrande, State of Georgia, Taylor, The Down Low, The Treasury Department, Tweets, Twitter
Sarah Palin: Okay, So She Did A Black Guy. That, However, May Explain a Whole Lotta Other Things
• September 16, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Native Americans/First Nations, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Palins, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "Rogue: Searching for The Real Sarah Palin", "The Real Housewives of Miami", African Americans, Alaska, Baggers, Baller, Barack Obama, Basketball Player, Black Men, Blacks, Desire, Dog Whistles, Doonesbury, Frisson, Garry Trudeau, Glen Rice, Glen Rice Jr., Interracial Sex, Joe McGinniss, Kim Kardashian, Marriage, National Basketball Association, National Enquirer, Native Americans, New York Times, Oval Office, President Barack Obama, Race, Republicans, Republicans Behaving Badly, Rhetoric, Rippa, Roland Hedley, Sarah Palin, Sex, Sexuality, Susan Brison, The Eighties, The Lower 48, The Swirl, The Tea Party, The Washington Post, Todd Palin, Wasilla Alaska, White House, White Women
Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande: The Money From Bishop Long Doesn’t Even Begin To Ease The Pain (w/Updates)
• August 26, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Rape/Sex Crimes, Religion, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Televangelists, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: African Americans, Atlanta, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bahamas, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, BMW, Child Sexual Abuse, Children, Dale Russell, Dodge Intrepid, Eddie Long, Four Young Men, Gay Lesbian and Bisexual, Grooming, Growing Up, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Jamal Parris, LGBT, Lithonia Georgia, Nairobi, New Birth, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Rape, Rod 2.0, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Settlement (litigation), Sex, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Spencer LeGrande, Support Groups, The Closet, WSB-TV, Young Men
“Go The F*ck to Sleep” As Read by Actor Samuel L. Jackson
• June 15, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Books, Class, Cultural History, Love, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Go The Fuck to Sleep", "Nightline, Adam Mansbach, Adults, Arts, Audiobook, Books, Boys, Children, Curse Words, Daddies, Expletives Deleted, Fatherhood, Four-Letter Words, Frustrations, Girls, Growing Up, Literature, Love, Mommies, Motherhood, Not for Kids, Not for Work, Parody, Profanity, Raising Children, Raising Kids, Ricardo Cortes, Samuel L Jackson, Sleepy, Tired, United States, Viral
Leith Mullings, Cornel West, and Gary Younge Discussing Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”
• June 15, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Islam/Sufism, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African American Studies, African Americans, Amiri Baraka, Bio, Biography, Black Liberation, Black Men, Black Women, Blacks, City University of New York, Columnist, Cornel West, Culture, Gary Younge, Guardian, History, Leftist, Leith, Leith Mullings, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Princeton University, Progressive, Racism, Stanley Aronowitz, The Sixties, United States, Writer
“The Way of All Flesh,” A Documentary About Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, The Immortal
• June 5, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Cancer, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Health, Henrietta Lacks/HeLa, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Oprah", "Shadow and Act", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Cancer, Cell, Cell Line, Consent, Death, Disease, Exploitation, Feature Film, Harpo Productions, HBO, HeLa, Henrietta Lack, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Informed Consent, Life, Medicine, Oprah Winfrey, Racism, Rebecca Skloot, Stealing, The Fifties, The Lack Family, United States
Author Walter Dean Myers: It’s Back to The Fifties with Every (Black) Man/Woman for Themselves
• May 11, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Discrimination, Drug Culture/Industry, Education, Fiction Writing, Gang Violence, Health, History, Homelessness, Joblessness, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Economy, Women
Tags: "In These Times", American Library Association, Barack Obama, Black Community, Books, Civil rights movement, Harlem, James Baldwin, President, United States, Walter Dean Myers, Writing, Young-adult fiction
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
New Year’s Songs: George Winston, “The Snowman, Walking in the Air”
• December 31, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Books, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Film, George Winston, Holidays, Memoir, Music, Spirituality
Tags: "The Snowman", "Walking in the Air", CDs, Children, Christmas, Compact Disc, Father Christmas, Flying, George Winston, Imagination, New Year, New Year's Day, New Years Eve, Palo Alto CA, Plowshare Books, Royal Pavilion, Santa Claus, Snowman, Snowmen, The Eighties, The Seventies, Windham Hill, Windham Hill Records
It’s On: Radical and Left Feminists Split on the Julian Assange Rape Case
• December 21, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Democrats in Name Only, Education, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Public Intellectualism, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Travel, War Crimes, Women
Tags: "Democracy Now!", Action, Amy Goodman, Bank of America, Competition, Competition Among Women, CounterQuo, Debate, Discuss, Discussion, Feminists of Color, Internet Neutrality, Investigative Journalism, Investigative Reporting, Jaclyn Friedman, Julian Assange, Left Feminism, Left Feminists, MasterCard, Naomi Wolf, Net Neutrality, PayPal, Pre-Feminism, Progressive Feminists, Radical Feminism, Radical Feminists, Servers, Sex, Sexual Violence, Sexuality, Suppression, Sweden, Visa, WikiLeaks, Yes Means Yes
That Godiva Chocolate “Bar” Commercial with The Voice of Hercule Poirot
• December 9, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Fashion, Uncategorized
Tags: "Amélie", Acme Idea Co., Advertising Campaign, Agatha Christie, Audrey Tautou, Belgian, Belgium, Commercials, Costa del Sol, David Suchet, Godiva Chocolatier, Hercule Poirot, Madison WI, Marbella Spain, New York, New York Times, PBS, Public Broadcasting System, South Norwalk, Spain, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Television Commercials, The New York Times, Voiceover, Willy Street Coop, World War II
Playwright Ntozake Shange Talks about Tyler Perry and “For Colored Girls”
• October 12, 2010 • 5 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Murder/Manslaughter, Ntozake Shange, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stroke, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Anika Noni Rose, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black Women, Blacks, Brooklyn, Drama, Growing Up, Harriette Cole, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Love, Marriage, New York, Novelist, Ntozake Shange, Playwright, Poet, Racism, Sex, Sexism, Sexism in the African American Community, The Root, The Seventies, The Washington Post, Tyler Perry, United States, Video
The “For Colored Girls” Trailer From Tyler Perry: It May Have You Wishing for a Revival of the Broadway Play
• September 15, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Womanism, Women
Tags: "For Colored Girls, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuff", "Precious", Art, Depressing, Depression, Film, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Frame of Mind, Growing Up, Janet Jackson, Juanita, Ladies in Colors, Live, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Movies, Murder, Ntozake Shange, Palo Alto, Racism, Rape, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Suicide, The Image, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Tyler Perry, What About Our Daughters?, Whoopi Goldberg
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