I Think LL Cool J Stepped In It Again on The Tonight Show Thursday Night
• April 12, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Discrimination, Hate Crimes, History, Late Night TV, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, National Issues, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Slavery, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Accidental Racist, Arts, Brad Paisley, Jay Leno, LL Cool J, NBC, NCIS, New York, Talk Show, Television, The Tonight Show, Tonight Show, Trayvon Martin, United States
Saturday Night Music, March 30, 2013: “Just The Way You Are,” Billy Joel, 1978 (In Memory of Phil Ramone)
• March 31, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in American History, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, History, Music, Soundtracks, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Just The Way You Are, "The Stranger", Billy Joel, CDs, Chick Song, Columbia Records, Dolby Laboratories, Duets, Elizabeth Weber, Elton John, George Martin, Grammys, Jack Arnold, Jazz, Joel, Karen Ichiuji Ramone, Liberty DeVitto, Linda Ronstadt, Love, Matthew Ramone, Music Producer, Naturalized American, New York, Optical Surround Sound, Paul Simon, Phil Ramone, Pop Music, Ramone, Simon Ramone, South Africa, The Eighties, The Seventies, William Ramone
Some Sunday Love: The Band (with the Late Levon Helm on Drums), “Don’t Do It,” New Year’s Eve, New York City Academy of Music, 1971
• April 29, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in Cancer, Cultural History, Film, Health, Love, Music, Music Videos, The Band
Tags: "Rock of Ages", Allen Toussaint, Band, Canada, Canadians, Garth Hudson, Holland Dozier and Holland, Levon Helm, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Music from Big Pink, New Orleans, New York, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson
Herbie Hancock Talks About How One Could Make Peace Happen
• March 16, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Cultural History, Education, Herbie Hancock, Love, Music, Religion, SGI Nichiren Buddhism
Tags: African Americans, Blacks, Buddhism, Cosby Show, Herbie, Herbie Hancock, Love, Madison WI, New York, New York City, Nichiren Buddhism, Peace, Religion and Spirituality, SGI-USA, Tico Wells, UNESCO, United States, Wisconsin, World Peace, YouTube
“Dark Girls” Documentary by Bill Duke and Channsin Berry Comes to the East Coast
• January 11, 2012 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film
Tags: African Americans, Apollo Theater, Appearances, Baltimore, Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Bill Duke, Bishop Eddie Long, Blacks, Channsin Berry, Children, Color Politics, Colorstruck, D. Channsin Berry, Dark Skin Prejudice, Documentary, Facebook, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Harlem, Light Skin Privilege, Love, Marriage, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, New York, New York City, One Night Only, Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie New York, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Showings, United States
“Men in Black 3″ Trailer Released, Slated for May 25, 2012 Release
• December 12, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Distribution/Business, Film
Tags: "Men in Black", Actors, African Americans, Agent J, Agent K, Downtown, Existence, Films, Josh Brolin, Men in Black III, New York, Stars' Trailers, Summer Films, Time Travel, Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith
Christmas Songs: Ray Charles and Betty Carter, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” 1961
• December 1, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Betty Carter, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Japan, Love, Ray Charles, Women
Tags: "Baby It's Cold Outside", "Neptune's Daughter", Academy Award for Best Original Song, African Americans, Betty Carter, Betty Garrett, Billboard Top 100, Black Women, Blacks, Christmas Songs, Cold, Comic Relief, Cult Appeal, Cult Status, Duets, Esther Williams, Excuses, Frank Loesser, Golden Age of Warner Bros. Cartoons, Holiday, Japan, Jazz, Love, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mouse, New York, Ray Charles, Red Skelton, Ricardo Montalban, Sex, Snow, Synchronized Swimming, Temptation, United States, Wolf, Wolf Call, Wolf Whistle
Retired Philly Police Captain Raymond Lewis Arrested with Other Occupy Wall Street Activists; He Says It Was the Proudest Moment of His Life
• November 22, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Budget Cuts, Class, Cultural History, Environmental Crimes, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Obama Administration, People of Color, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: Action, Activism, Arrest, Captain Ray Lewis, Demonstration, Iraq War, Lewis, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, New York Observer, NYPD, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Philadelphia Police Department, Police Officers, Political Activism, Rant, Ray Lewis, Retired Captain Raymond Lewis, Scott Olsen, Symbol, Sympathy Vote, Wisconsin
The Ancestors Welcome Poet-Singer-Musician Gil Scott-Heron, Known For “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”; Father of the Spoken Word Movement and a Progenitor of Hip Hop
• May 28, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Politics, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, Environmental Crimes, Hate Crimes, Homelessness, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Joblessness, Music, National Issues, Race, Revolutions, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Winter in America", African American, Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, Alec Wilkinson, Blacks, Brenda Sykes, Brian Jackson, Chuck D, Drug Addict, Drugs, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, I'm New Here, Jamaica, Jamaican Ancestry, Kanye West, Musician, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, New York, New York City, Racism, Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Ron Carter, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, We Almost Lost Detroit
“Le Grand Séducteur”–IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn–Takes The Perp Walk for Sexually Assaulting a Hotel Maid, An African Immigrant Woman
• May 16, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Africans, Bailouts, Class, Crime, Cultural History, France, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Immigrants, African Woman, Anne Sinclair, Bedclothes, Consenting, Consenting Adults, Davos, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France, IMF, International Monetary Fund, New York, New York City, New York City Police Department, Nicolas Sarkozy, Not Consenting, NYPD, Perp Walk, President of France, Rape, RTL, Sex Crimes, Sexual Assault, Socialist Party, Socialists, Special Victims Unit, Switzerland, The Socialists, Towels, Tristane Banon
Phoebe.
• May 6, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Differently-Abled, Health, Jews, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Phoebe Snow, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Fresh", African Americans, Ashkenazi, Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzey, Billie Holiday, Blacks, Bohemian, CeCe Peniston, Children, Constables on Patrol, Differently-Abled, DNA Analysis, DNA profiling, Four-Octaves, General Foods, George Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Greenwich Village, Growing Up, Hallmark, Howard Stern, Iberian Peninsula, Jackson Browne, Jewry, Jews, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Martha Graham, Mavis Staples, Medically-Induced Coma, Michael McDonald, Michelob, Mother, Mother's Day, Muslims, New York, New York Rock and Soul Revue, Passing, Phil Kearns, Phoebe Ann Loeb, Phoebe Snow, Poetry Man, Robert DeNiro, Santana, Sephardic, Singer Songwriter, Sly Stone, Television Commercials, The Seventies, The Sisters of Glory, Thelma Houston, TV Commercials, Valerie Kearns, Woodstock 25
That Brother in The “Detectives” Nicorette Gum Commercial
• April 30, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Class, Comedy, Commercials, Crime, Cultural History, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Dave", "Malcolm in the Middle", "The Bold and The Beautiful", African Americans, Arts, Blacks, Cartwright, Chiat Day, Dan Martin, Dave Kovic, Double, Duane Stevenson, Fringe, Kevin Kline, New York, Nicorette, Shark, Ving Rhames
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
Iman “Not a Great Beauty” Either, Especially Without Her Make-Up
• March 8, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Africans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Fashion, Gossip, Michelle Obama, People of Color, Women
Tags: "The National Enquirer", African Americans, Age, Ambush, Ambushed, Attractiveness, Beauty, Black Women, Bossip, David Bowie, Fashion, Fashion Model, Fashion Sense, First Lady Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, FLOTUS, Iman, Looksism, Michelle Obama, New York, Older Black Women, Older Women, Self Image, Supermodel, The First Lady, United States
The P.S. 22 Chorus Closes The Oscars
• February 28, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Love, Music, People of Color, Television, The PS 22 Chorus
Tags: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "The Wizard of Oz", 1939, Academy Award, African American Children, Anne Hathaway, Asian American Children, Children, Colin Firth, Dreams, European American Children, Fifth Graders, Glee Club, Growing Up, James Franco, Kirk Douglas, Kodak Theater, Kodak Theatre, Latino American Children, Love, New York, Oscars, P.S. 22 Chorus, Singers, Staten Island, The Future, The Thirties, United States, YouTube
The P.S. 22 Chorus from Staten Island Will Appear on Tonight’s Oscar Show
• February 27, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, Arts, Awards, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Film, Music, People of Color, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The PS 22 Chorus
Tags: ABC, Academy Award, Anne Hathaway, Disneyland, Fifth Graders, Graniteville, Gregg Breinberg, Justin Timberlake, Kodak Theatre, New York, Nicole Kidman, P.S. 22 Chorus, Sandra Bullock, Staten Island, The Oscars
Malcolm X’s Daughter, Malikah, Jailed in North Carolina for Grand Larceny and Forgery
• February 23, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Betty Shabazz/Shabazz Daughters, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Crime, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Alcohol Abuse, Assassination, Betty Shabazz, Black Women, Children, Columbia SC, Drug Abuse, Drugs, FBI Informant, Grand Larceny, Khaula Bakr, Larceny, Louis Farrakhan, Madison County, Malcolm Shabazz, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Motherhood, New York, North Carolina, Plea Agreement, Psychological Counseling, Psychological Problems, Qubilah Shabazz, Queens, Racism, Sean Devereux, Twins, United States
UPDATE: The Craigslist Congressman Resigns–It Was a Sista Who Turned Him In
• February 9, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in American Politics, Class, Cultural History, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Women for Men", Abyssus Abyssum Invocat, Age, Chris Lee, Christopher Lee, Craigslist, Danielle Belton, Facebook, Gawker Media, Gmail, Lying, Member of Congress, New York, Republicans, Republicans Behaving Badly, Single Black Woman, The Black Snob, The Craigslist Congressman, The Swirl
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
The Queen of Soul Has Incurable Pancreatic Cancer
• December 8, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Aretha Franklin, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cooking, Cultural History, Democrats, Diabetes, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: "Dr. Feelgood", "Freeway of Love, "Live at the Fillmore West", "Respect", "The National Enquirer", "Who's Zoomin' Who?", African Americans, Aretha Franklin, Bessie Smith, Black Women, Blacks, Cancer, Carolyn Franklin, Coma, Condoleezza Rice, Depression, Detroit Free Press, Diabetes, Diabetic, Diabetics, Drug Abuse, Edward Franklin, Erma Franklin, Exercise, Growing Up, Incurable, Junkie, King Curtis, King Curtis and The Kingpins, Knives, Lady Soul, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Miss Re, Miss Re Re, Murder, National Enquirer, New York, Pancreatic Cancer, Patrick Swayze, Queen of the Blues, Reverend C.L. Franklin, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Smoker, Smoking, The Eighties, The Kingpins, The Queen of Soul, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States
Whoopi Goldberg’s FightBackPac.Org PSA for Gay Marriage
• October 30, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Democrats, Love, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Whoopi Goldberg, Women
Tags: "30 Rock", "Modern Family", "Sex in the City", "The Advocate", African Americans, Bill Stachowski, Bisexuals, Black Women, Blacks, Buffalo, Chelsea, Child Abuse, Common Sense, Cynthia Nixon, FightBack.Org, Frank Padavan, Gay Marriage, Gays, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Latinos, Lesbians, LGBT, Love, Marriage, New York, New Yorker, PAC Fight Back New York, PSA, Public Service Announcement, Queens, Roman Polanski, Rosie Perez, Sex, Sexuality, Sr., State Senate of New York, State Senator Ruben Diaz, T, The View, Tim Kennedy, Transgender, Twinkies, Whoopi Goldberg
Trailer for “Venus Noire,” The Film About ‘The Hottentot Venus,’ Saartjie Baartman of South Africa
• October 20, 2010 • 3 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Africans, Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, European History, Film, France, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Saartjie Baartman, Sexuality, South Africa, The Rest of the World, Travel, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: "Venus Noire", Abdel Kechiche, Abdellatif Kechiche, Africa, African Americans, Arts, Black Venus, Black Women, Blacks, Britain, Circus, Colonialism, Degradation, Director, Drama, European Colonialism, European History, Exhibition, Exploitation, France, Hottentot Venus, Intervention, Khoi People, Khoikhoi, Khoisan Woman, Movies, New York, Pejorative, Prostitution, Racism, Rape, Saartjie Baartman, Sarah Baartman, Self Image, Self-Worth, Sex, South Africa, Subhumanity, United States
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
Yesterday, Nine Years Ago
• September 12, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Public Intellectualism, Race, History, Obama Administration, Memoir, American Politics, The Economy, Homelessness, Joblessness, Bailouts, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Crime, Teabagging Party, Class, Health, Wisconsin, The Iraq War II, Hate Crimes, Consumerism, People of Color, American Foreign Policy, Afghanistan, Iran, Mental Health/Psychology, Cancer, Domestic Terrorism, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Africans, Spirituality, The Catholic Church, Protestant Denominations, African American History, American History, Cultural History, Jews, Islam/Sufism, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Immigration, Arabs, Iraq
Tags: California, New York, African Americans, Iraq, al Qaeda, The Justice Department, BBC, Fear, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, War on Terror, Osama bin Laden, Racism, Pakistan, Israel, Memoir, The Bay Area, Shi'a, Sunni, Muslims, New York City, Television, Fiction Writing, Jingoism, Nationalism, Writing, Lebanon, Multiracial, Reactionary, Bush, Black Muslims, Human Beings, Americans, American, The FBI, NPR, The Twin Towers, W, Muslim Americans, Terrorists, September 11, 2001, Muslim Extremism, American Exceptionalism, American Racism, American Extremism, 2050, Brown-Skinned People, The World Trade Center, The Empire State Building, Nativism, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Travel Scholarship, Writing Residency, Faculty Meeting, Novel, Bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, Mosques, Ross, North Dakota, Sheboygan WI, 30 Mosques 30 States, Under Armour Caps, Reactionaries, Collateral Damage, Lives, B-29, B-17, Palestinians, Mike Wallace
The Fifth of Katrina – The Community at Large
• August 30, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Uncategorized
Tags: African American, California, New York, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleanians, Civil Rights, Children, United States, Tennessee, New York City, New Orleans, FEMA Trailers, Mardi Gras Indians, Homeless, Oklahoma, Homelessness, The Great Recession, Sandra Bullock, The Ninth Ward, The Lower Nine, NYU, "When the Levees Broke", Rentals, The Lower Ninth Ward, Tulane University, Affordable Housing, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Bennie Pete, Harry Cook, Bounce Music, Housing Projects, Low-Cost Housing, Rental Property, Rents, Young Urban Redevelopment Professionals, Warren Easton High School
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