Some July 4th Love: John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” Performed by The Boston Pops Orchestra and Conducted by John Williams
• July 4, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, History, Holidays, Japan, Music, Television
Tags: America, Americans, Arthur Fiedler, Black Panthers, Boston Harbor, Independence Day, J. Edgar Hoover, Jingoism, John Philip Sousa, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Marches, Martin Luther King, Patriotism, Stars and Stripes Forever, United States
Those TSA Security Measures: Why Not Submit to The Body Scanners Instead?
• November 22, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Race, Obama Administration, Memoir, American Politics, The Rest of the World, Crime-Cops-Injustice, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Crime, Class, People of Color, American Foreign Policy, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Domestic Terrorism, Holidays, Africans, The Clintons, Arabs, Travel, Whoopi Goldberg
Tags: 9-11, Airline Security, Airlines, al Qaeda, Americans, Americans of Color, Bladder Cancer Survivor, Body Pat-Downs, Body Scanner, Bustiers, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Christmas, Civil Rights, Complaining, Complaints, CSIS, Domestic Terrorism, Draconian Measures, El Al, FBI, Genital Area, Genitals, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Holidays, Hysteria, International Terrorism, Interpol, Intrusiveness, Invasion of Privacy, Israel, Israelis, Jews, Lane Bryant, Monitoring, NBC Nightly News, Necessary Evil, New York City, Normality, One-Way Ticket, Outrage, Planes, Racial Profiling, Safety, Scotland Yard, Screening Process, Security, Shin Bet, Terrorist Sympathizers, Thanksgiving, The Holy Land, The View, Tom Sawyer, Transportation Security Administration, TSAs, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Unconstitutional, Underwear Bomber, United States, Wands
MSNBC LIVE FEED: The Rescue of The Trapped Chilean Miners
• October 12, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Chicanos/Latinos, Chile, Class, People of Color, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Americans, Benefits, Camp Hope, Celebrities, Chile, Chileans, Compensation, Copiapó, Espanol, Families, Heroes, History, Marriage, Miner, Miners, Mining Accident, Mining Disaster, Mistresses, MSNBC, President, Rescue, Shaft, South America, Spanish, Spanish Speaking, United States, West Virginia, Wives, Women, Workers, Working Class
Yesterday, Nine Years Ago
• September 12, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Afghanistan, African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Arabs, Bailouts, Black People, Cancer, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Health, History, Homelessness, Immigration, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Iran, Iraq, Islam/Sufism, Jews, Joblessness, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Public Intellectualism, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Teabagging Party, The Catholic Church, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: 2001, 2050, 30 Mosques 30 States, Afghanistan, African Americans, al Qaeda, Alpha Kappa Alpha, American, American Exceptionalism, American Extremism, American Racism, Americans, Ayman al Zawahiri, B-17, B-29, BBC, Bin Laden, Black Muslims, Brown-Skinned People, Bush, California, Collateral Damage, Faculty Meeting, Fear, Fiction Writing, Human Beings, Iraq, Israel, Jingoism, Lebanon, Lives, Memoir, Mike Wallace, Mosques, Multiracial, Muslim Americans, Muslim Extremism, Muslims, Nationalism, Nativism, New York, New York City, North Dakota, Novel, NPR, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestinians, Racism, Reactionaries, Reactionary, Ross, Saudi Arabia, September 11, Sheboygan WI, Shi'a, Sunni, Television, Terrorists, The Bay Area, The Empire State Building, The FBI, The Justice Department, The Twin Towers, The World Trade Center, Travel Scholarship, Under Armour Caps, W, War on Terror, Writing, Writing Residency
Only One Black Emmy Winner This Year; But Archie Panjabi Won
• August 30, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Race, Celebrities/Royals, Television, The Rest of the World, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Commercials, Class, People of Color, Reality Shows, Public Television, Children's Shows, Acting, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Arts, Comedy, Drama, Cultural History, Television Series, Late Night TV, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani
Tags: Jimmy Fallon, NBC, CBS, African Americans, Blacks, Latinos, Wanda Sykes, British, People of Color, James Bond, Acting, Actress, Columbia, Old Spice, Isaiah Mustafa, Americans, The Emmys, Andre Braugher, Sofia Vergara, Inclusiveness, "Inspector Lewis", Ricky Gervais, Sikh, Person of Color, "Bend It Like Beckham", Archana Kaur Panjabi, Daniel Craig, Archie Panjabi, "The Good Wife", Britons, Jimmy Smits, Hector Ramirez, Hector Elizondo, Camera Operator, Record Nominations
Memo to Henry Louis “Skip” Gates About Slavery and Reparations: With Friends Like You, Who Needs Enemies?
• April 24, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Obama Administration, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African American History, African History, African Kings, Aggression, American History, Americans, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., European Americans, Europeans, Guns, Henry Louis Gates Jr., History, Homeowners, Instigated Wars, Neo-Confederate, Op-Ed Contributor, Redlining, Reparations, Right Wing, Skip Gates, Slave Trading, Slavery, Sugar Cane, Teabaggers, The Akan, The Caribbean, The Fon, The Kongo, The Mbundu, The Middle Passage, The New York Times, The Slave Trade, Tobacco, Voters' Rights, Wars, White Supremacist, Whites
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