Archive for the 'Public Television' Category
Some Monday Love: “Thinking About Your Body (For Debs)” Bobby McFerrin, 1986
• March 11, 2013 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Bobby McFerrin, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Facebook, Film, Love, Public Television, Sexuality, Television
Tags: "Thinking About Your Body", Arts, Blue Note, BobbyMcFerrin, Debbie Green, Don't Worry Be Happy, Facebook, Joy, Live Album, Love, McFerrin, Music, Spontaneous Inventions, Wife
A StoryCorps Video About How Astronaut Ronald McNair Integrated His Hometown Library
• February 6, 2013 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black Nerds, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentaries, Education, History, Love, Music, Public Television, Race, Science, Television
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, California, Challenger Center for Space Science Education, Christa McAuliffe, Desegregation, Ellison Onizuka, Growing Up, Jean Michel Jarre, Lake City South Carolina, Laser Research, McNair, NASA, Physicist, Ronald Ervin McNair, Ronald McNair, Science, Scientist, Segregation, South Carolina, Space Shuttle Challenger, StoryCorps, The Eighties, The Fifties, The Seventies, United States
Some Sunday Love: The Friends of Distinction, “Going in Circles,” 1969
• August 12, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, Music Videos, Public Television, Race, Religion, Television, Television Series, The Friends of Distinction, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Americans, Arts, Barbara Jean Love, Blacks, Butler, California, Charles Manson, Ed Sullivan Show, Fifth Dimension, Floyd Butler, Friends of Distinction, Grazing in the Grass, Harry Elston, Hugh Masekela, Isaac Hayes, Jessica Cleaves, Jim Brown, LGBT, Manson Family, Music, Music Videos, Satanic Bible, Stonewall Riots, Television, The Sixties, United States
What I’m Working On For This Weekend: Whitney, Eddie Long, BAnna Love, and Putting Together a Book Review Blog
• February 22, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Facebook, Gossip, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Religion, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Whitney Houston
Tags: Abortion, African Americans, Anna, Banna, Black Women, Blacks, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Book Reviews, Chris Brown, Divorce, Downton Abbey, Eddie, Eddie Long, Facebook, Funeral, Gillette, Growing Up, Hair Relaxers, John Chadima, Marriage, Mr. Bates, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, Ray J, Rihanna, Rihanna Fenty, Scott Walker, United States, Vanessa Long, Whitney Houston, Wisconsin
The President Sings Again
• February 22, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Arts, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Buddy Guy, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Music, Public Television, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, President Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, PBS, New Orleans, Music, Blues, Al Green, Reverend Al Green, White House, WPT.org, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Rolling Stones, East Room, "I'm Still in Love With You", "Sweet Home Chicago", "In Performance at The White House", Trombone Shorty, Shemekia Copeland, Jeff Beck
“The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975″ Comes to Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11
• February 10, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Angela Davis, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentaries, Documentary, Education, Film, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Public Television, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975", African Americans, Angela Davis, Ann Dunham, Barack Obama, Black Militancy, Black Panther, Black Power, Black Women, Blacks, California, COINTELPRO, Eldridge Cleaver, Film, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Huey P. Newton, Independent Lens, Prison Ethos, Prisons, Racism, Stokely Carmichael, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Wisconsin Channel, United States, Vietnam War, Violence, WPT.org
Girl Racing With Pet Camel, Film at 11
• November 17, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Animals, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Love, Public Television, Television, Women
Tags: Alex, Animals, Arizona, Big Cats, Bond, California, Camel, CamelsandFriends.com, Critters, Domesticated Animals, Dromedary, Dromedary Camel, Exotic Animals, Friends, Friendship, Giraffes, Koalas, Natural Habitat, Pony Express, Skunks
Preview of Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls,” A Documentary About Dark Skin Prejudice and How It Affects Dark-Skinned Black Women
• May 26, 2011 • 17 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: "Dark Girls", African American culture, African Americans, Alice Walker, Attractiveness, Bill Duke, Black Black Man, Black Black Woman, Black People, Black Women, Bradinn French, D. Channsin Berry, Documentary, HBO, Human skin color, Kanazawa, Love, Physical attractiveness, Psychology Today, Satoshi Kanazawa, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Short Film, Skillet Blond, Sundance, Women
“Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” Here for a Limited Time Only
• May 13, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Awards, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cooking, Crime, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Political Malfeasance, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Congo Square", "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans", "Treme", Arguments, Black Creoles, Black Neighborhood, Brenda Marie Osbey, Broken Levees, California Newsreel, Community, Documentary, Father Jerome LeDoux, Film Documentary, Film Festivals, Glen David Andrews, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Lenwood Sloan, Levees, Lolis Eric Elie, Nature, New Orleans, New Orleans Music, San Francisco International Film Festival, South Madison Branch Public Library, St. Augustine Parish, The Mississippi River, Tribeca Film Festival, Wynton Marsalis
Another View About How The Media Lies–Yes, YOU Too Faux Noise, NPR, MSNBC, CNN…
• May 3, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Class, Crime, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Education, International Terrorism, Journalism and Ethics, National Issues, Public Intellectualism, Public Television, Race, Religion, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, War Crimes, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "Manufacturing Consent", Beauty Contest, CNN, Conservatism, Corporate Media, Edward Herman, Junk Food, League of Women Voters, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky, NPR, Politics, Showcase, The Mainstream Media, United States, Viewpoints
The President and Seth Meyers at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner, April 30, 2011
• May 1, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Democrats, Journalism and Ethics, National Issues, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Public Television, Race, Religion, Science, Sexuality, Sports, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: 2012, 2012 Presidential Campaign, 2012 Presidential Election, African Americans, Barack Obama, Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, Biden, Birthers, Comb-Over, Democrats, Donald Trump, First Lady Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama, MSM, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President of the United States, Presidential Elections, Racism, Republican, Republican Challengers, Republicans, Saturday Night Live, Seth Meyers, SNL, SNL Alumni, The First Lady, The Mainstream Media, The News Media, The White House, The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Vice President Joe Biden, White House, White House Correspondents Association
Jeff Bridges Nearly Refused The Role of “The Dude”
• December 29, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Afghanistan, American History, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Documentaries, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Film, Iraq, Love, Public Television, Sexuality, Television, The Iraq War II, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "The Big Lebowski", African Americans, American Masters, Big Lebowski, Blacks, Caucasians, Coen Brothers, Common Sense, Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, George Carlin, Hipsters, Jeff Bridges, Last Picture Show, Marijuana, Marijuana Dealer, Mirror Has Two Faces, Norman Mailer, Self Image, Sex, Slackers, Stoners, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, Timothy Bottoms, True Grit, Weed, White Russians
Forty Years Since George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” Released; Nine Years Since George Left Us
• November 29, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Music, Memoir, Celebrities/Royals, Television, Education, Love, Religion, Film, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Class, Public Television, The Beatles, Spirituality, Documentary, Cultural History
Tags: The Seventies, Assassination, Anniversary, Death, Britain, PBS, Joni Mitchell, Memorial, John Lennon, Music, George Harrison, The Beatles, Religion, Tribute, Singer Songwriter, High School, Los Angeles California, India, Indians, Religious, Religion and Spirituality, Beatle, Jim Croce, Paul McCartney, "All Things Must Pass", Lung Cancer, David Crosby, Solo Album, Knife Attack, "The Concert for George", "Rubber Soul", Sitar, Phase, Spiritual Rock
Choose Your Poison: Election Night Live Streaming from PBS, Free Speech TV, and ABC News Starting at 7:00 P.M. Central Time
• November 2, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in American History, American Politics, Class, Democrats, Journalism and Ethics, National Issues, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: ABC News, Andrew Breitbart, Congressional Races, Democrats, Election Night 2010, Free Speech TV, Governorships, Live Streaming, Midterm Elections, PBS Newshour, Republicans, Shirley Sherrod
The Story Behind The ‘I Love My Hair’ Sesame Street Video
• October 19, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Africans, American History, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "I Love My Hair", "I Whip My Hair", "Sesame Street", "The Bluest Eye", "The Spook Show", ABC News, African American, Angelina Jolie, Anything Muppet, Barbie Dolls, Biracial, Biracial Children, Biracials, Black Muppet Girl, Black Women, Blacks, Blonde, Blue Contact Lenses, Children, Culture, Deep, Girls of Color, Growing Up, Joey Mazzarino, Latinas, Latinos, Love, Mash-up, NBC News, Racism, Segi Mazzarino, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Straight, Television, The Media, Toni Morrison, Towel, Viral, W, Whoopi Goldberg, Willow Smith, Women of Color, Zahara Jolie-Pitt
‘I Love My Hair’ from PBS’ Sesame Street (w/Update)
• October 17, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "I Love My Hair", "Sesame Street", African Americans, Articles and Interviews, Arts, Beauty, Beauty Standards, Biracial Children, Biracials, Black Hair, Black Women, Blacks, Chantylla "Chauncey" Johnson, Chantylla Johnson, Children, Children's, Chris Rock, Color Purple, Growing Up, Hair, Katy Perry, Love, Madison WI, Muppet, Muppet Wiki, Nappy Hair, People of Color, Programs, Racism, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Singer, Television, The Color Purple, Weaves, Wigs
Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won
• August 30, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Cultural History, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Late Night TV, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Bend It Like Beckham", "Inspector Lewis", "The Good Wife", Acting, Actress, African Americans, Americans, Andre Braugher, Archana Kaur Panjabi, Archie Panjabi, Blacks, British, Britons, Camera Operator, CBS, Columbia, Daniel Craig, Hector Elizondo, Hector Ramirez, Inclusiveness, Isaiah Mustafa, James Bond, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Smits, Latinos, NBC, Old Spice, People of Color, Person of Color, Record Nominations, Ricky Gervais, Sikh, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes
2010 Emmys Announced: Braugher, “Endgame,” “Treme” Nominated
• July 8, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, African American History, American Politics, Arts, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cooking, Cultural History, Documentary, Drama, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Film, Love, Public Television, Race, Reality Shows, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Breaking Bad", "Brick City", "Endgame", "Pressure Cooker", "Treme", African American History, African Americans, Andre Braugher, Awards Show, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Blacks, California, Children, Emmy, Emmys, Gian Carlo Esposito, Los Angeles CA, President Barack Obama, Racism, Sofia Vergara, The Emmys, Wanda Sykes
Blacks in Britain Alert: Masterpiece Theatre, “Foyle’s War VI: Killing Time” Presents Black GIs in Post-World War II Britain
• May 6, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Drama, European History, Fiction Writing, Hate Crimes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II
Tags: "Killing Time", "Masterpiece Theater", "Midsomer Murders", A&E Network, African Americans, Anthony Horowitz, Black Yanks, Blacks, Bolshie, Britspeak, Charlotte Riley, Children, Christopher Foyle, DCS Foyle, Desegregation, Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle, Doctrinaire, Drama, East Sussex, Foyle, Gabe Kelly, Great Britain, Greenlit Productions, Mandy Dean, Michael Kitchen, Morality, Murder, Obi Abili, PBS, Racism, Segregation, Sexual Rivalry, The British Empire, U.S. Army, Winston Churchill
Don’t Believe The “Frontline” Update, “The Quake,” about Haiti
• April 27, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Class, Documentaries, Documentary, Exploration and Colonization, Film, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, History, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television, The Clintons, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Frontline", "The Quake", Aristide, Ayiti, Corruption, Deals, Destinies, Distortion, Elites, Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti, Haitians, National Public Radio, Neo-Colonialism, Oil, PBS, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Self-Determination, The Black Republic, The Haitian Blogger
“Small Island” Concludes on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre Sunday
• April 22, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, European History, Fiction Writing, Film, Jamaica/British Caribbean, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Television, Women, World War II
Tags: "Masterpiece Theater", "Small Island", Afro-British, Afro-Caribbean, Andrea Levy, Belonging, Bernard, Black British, Black Britons, Blacks, Britain, Colin Firth, Cotswolds, Drama, Gilbert, Great Britain, Hortense, Interracial Couples, Interracial Love, Interracial Relationships, Jamaica, King and Country, Love, Naivety, PBS, Queenie, Racism, Sade, Sex, World War II, WW II
BBC Production of Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” at Hulu
• March 25, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Africans, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Class, Crime, Domestic Terrorism, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction Writing, Film, Health, History, India, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Public Television, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II
Tags: "White Teeth", Anti-Immigration, Black Muslims, Blacks, Britain, Culture, Immigration, India, Indians, Islam, Islamists, Love, Malcolms, Neo-Colonialism, Pakistan, Pakistanis, World Culture, Zadie Smith
Elmo on “The Wendy Williams Show”
• March 2, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Public Television, Television, Wendy Williams, Women
Tags: "Sesame Street", "The Wendy Williams Show", Elmo, Performance, Talk Show, The Muppets, Wendy Williams, Worms and Dirt
What Some Black Observers in Boston Think About a Republican Taking Ted Kennedy’s Seat, and Why Some Democrats–Black People–Sat This One Out
• January 27, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Democrats, History, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Public Television, Race, Television, The Kennedys
Tags: African Americans, Barack Obama, Blacks, Boston MA, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Special Election, Talk Show, Tea Party Movement, Teabaggers, Voters
Meanwhile, Back in Los Angeles: Pretrial Hearings Underway in the Oscar Grant Case
• January 9, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color, Public Television, Race, Television
Tags: "Grand Theft Auto", "The L.A. Watts Times", "The Los Angeles Times", Alameda County, Anthony Sowell, BART, BART Police, Bled to Death in Custody, C-Span, California, Changing Stories, Chuco's Justice Center, Criminal Record, DeAndre Brunston, Flight from Justice, Fruitvale Station, Gag Order, Hayward CA, Johannes Mehserle, Judge Perry, Judge Robert J. Perry, Keishia Brunston, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies, Marysol Domenici, Michael Rains, Mitrice Richardson, Murder, Nevada, New Year's Day, Oakland, Oaktown, Oscar Grant, Oscar Grant III, Property Damage, Public Television, Riots, San Francisco Bay Area, Taser, Tasering, Tatiana Grant, Televising Court Cases, Tony Pirone, Wanda Johnson
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