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
“When the Smoke Clears” Film Documentary on the Life of Smokin’ Joe Frazier Available Here and on Hulu
• February 21, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Diabetes, Documentary, Education, Film, Joe Frazier, Love, Memoir, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sports, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Philippines, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Who I Am
Tags: "Joe Frazier: When The Smoke Clears", "The New York Daily News", African Americans, Blacks, Burma Shave, Documentary, Film Documentary, Frazier, George Foreman, Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, Great White Hype, Growing Up, Joe Frazier, Marvis Frazier, Mike Todd, Muhammad Ali, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Smokin' Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Sports, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Thrilla in Manila, United States
Saturday Night Music, February 11, 2012: “You Met Your Match,” Stevie Wonder, 1968
• February 11, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Cultural History, Lula Mae Hardaway, Music, Sexuality, Stevie Wonder, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "For Once in My Life", "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day.", "You Met Your Match", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, California, Children, Funk Brother, Grammy, Grammy Award, Growing Up, James Jamerson, Love, Lula Mae Hardaway, Motown, Motown Records, Sex, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, The Seventies, The Sixties
“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
How Will You Celebrate The King Holiday?
• January 16, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Labor History, Labor Relations, Love, People of Color, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Race, The Economy
Tags: African Americans, Albany GA, Atlanta, Blacks, Coretta Scott King, Drum Major, King, King Memorial, Madison WI, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Racism, Reverend C.T. Vivian, Reverend Joseh Lowery, Sphinx, The Albany Movement, The Human Spirit, The Overture Center for the Arts, The Poor People's Campaign, The Sixties, TravelPod, Union, Unionizing, United States, Washington, Washington Post, Wisconsin
Olympic Sprinter Lee Evans, 63, Has a Brain Tumor and No Health Insurance (w/Update)
• January 5, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Education, Exploration and Colonization, Health, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, The Brain
Tags: "Sicko", "Speed City", "The Nation", 1968 Summer Olympics, African Americans, Avery Brundage, Black Women, Blacks, California, Dave Zirin, East San Jose, Evans, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, Geronimo Pratt, Growing Up, John Carlos, Kipchoge Keino, Larry James, Latinos, Lee Evans, Memoir, New Orleans, Nigeria, Olympic, Overfelt High School, Overfelt Royals, PayPal, Public Schools, San Jose, San Jose State, San Jose State University, Spartans, The Seventies, The Sixties, Tommie Smith, University of South Alabama, William C. Overfelt High School
Christmas Songs: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, “Egg Nog,” 1964
• December 23, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, France, Music, Ramsey Lewis, The Netherlands/Holland, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Soulful Strut", African Americans, Bangkok, Blacks, Charles Heath, Chess Records, Christmas, Dexter Gordon, Eggnog, Eldee Young, Love, Quiet Storm, Ramsey Lewis, Steve McCall, Thailand, The Seventies, The Sixties, Young-Holt Unlimited
Christmas Songs: “All I Want Is You This Christmas,” ‘N Sync, 1998
• December 14, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Germany, Holidays, Love, Music, Women
Tags: "All I Want Is You This Christmas", 'N Sync, Boy Bands, Boy Groups, Chris Kirkpatrick, Christmas, Co-Founder, Counter-Tenor, Geezers, Growing Up, iTunes, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Mariah Carey, Nigels11, NSYNC, Orlando FL, The 2000s, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, Women, Young Women
Christmas Songs: Stevie Wonder, “(That’s) What Christmas Means To Me (My Love)” 1967
• December 5, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, Stevie Wonder, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Someday at Christmas", "What Christmas Means to Me", African Americans, Anna Gordy, Anna Gordy Gaye, Benny Benjamin, Blacks, Detroit MI, Funk Brother, Genius, Growing Up, Henry Cosby, James Jamerson, Jazz Musicians, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Session Musicians, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, Stevland Hardaway Judkins, Tamla, The Funk Brothers, The Motown Sound, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States
Meanwhile, Back in Madison, WI: The Murder of R Place on Park
• October 7, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Discrimination, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Who I Am, Wisconsin
Tags: African Americans, ALRC, Annie Weatherby-Flowers, Blacks, Business, California, City Council, Constables on Patrol, Crime, Derrell Connor, Drugs, Fillmore District San Francisco, Funk, Gangbangers, Ignoble Wray, Improvisation, Jazz, Louisiana, Madison, Madison City Council, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Madisonians, New Orleans, Noble Wray, R Place on Park, Racism, Rick Flowers, San Francisco, Shootings, Small Businessman, Soul Music, The Madison Police Department, The Sixties, Wisconsin
The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Nickolas Ashford, 70, of The Soul Duo Ashford & Simpson (w/Update)
• August 24, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in Ashford and Simpson, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Asia Ashford, Associated Press, Baptists, Berry Gordy, Bryant Park, Cancer, Dance, Dancer, Facebook, Gospel, Marvin Gaye, Motown, New York City, New York Times, Nickolas Ashford, Nicole Ashford, Park Benches, Pop Music, R&B, Ray Charles, Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand), Scepter Records, Singers, Songwriters, Soul Music, Tammi Terrell, The Black Church, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Sugar Bar, Theatre District, Throat Cancer, Twitter, Valerie Simpson, White Rock Baptist Church, Whitney Houston, Your Precious Love
The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Eugene ‘Gene’ McDaniels, 76, Who Wrote “A 100 Lbs. of Clay,” “Feel Like Making Love” and “Compared to What?”
• August 1, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Eugene McDaniels, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Roberta Flack, Sexuality, Stroke, The Heart, Women
Tags: "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Feel Like Making Love", "Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse", A Tribe Called Quest, Actor, Atlantic Records, Billboard Hot 100, Black Rock Coalition, Eddie Harris, Eugene McDaniels, Films, Four Octave Range, Frankie Vaughan, Gene McDaniels, Jackie Wilson, Les McCann, Maine, Roberta Flack, Ron Carter, Singer, Singer Songwriter, Songwriter, Spiro Agnew, Swiss Movement, The Left Rev. McD, The Seventies, The Sixties, UK Singles Chart
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
A Little Marvin and Tammi on a Sunday: “You’re All I Need to Get By”
• June 12, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "You're All I Need to Get By", African Americans, Berry Gordy, Black Women, Blacks, Brain Tumor, California, Domestic Violence, Drama, Growing Up, Love, Marvin Gaye, Memoir, Motown, Rape, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Tammi Terrell, The Funk Brothers, The Sixties, United States, Wikipedia
The Ancestors Take Home Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, Former Black Panther Leader
• June 2, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Expatriates, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Murder/Manslaughter, Race, Tanzania, The Rest of the World
Tags: Africa, Amnesty International, Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, Death, Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt, Elmer Pratt, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frame-Up, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, Geronimo Pratt, Johnnie Cochran, Los Angeles, Louisiana Born, Malaria, Murder Frame-Up, Pratt, Race, Stuart Hanlon, Tanzania, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The Sixties, United States, Village, Wrongfully Accused
Funeral Services Announced for Gil Scott-Heron and More (w/Update)
• June 1, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Drug Culture/Industry, HIV Positive, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African Americans, Art, Artists, Arts, BBC News, Blacks, Children, Crack, Creative People, Death, Drug Addiction, Drugs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, Funeral Services, Ghostface Killah, Gia Scott-Heron, Gil Scott-Heron, Growing Up, I'm New Here, Kanye West, Love, Musician, New York City, New York Times, Novelist, Poet, Polymath, Riverside Church, Singer, Substance Abuse, Substance Dependence, Talib Kweli, The Fieldston School, The Hip Hop Nation, The Seventies, The Sixties, Washington D.C.
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
A Little Sunday Music: Spanky and Our Gang, “Sunday Mornin’”
• April 3, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Cancer, Class, Cultural History, Health, Love, Music, Sexuality, Spanky & Our Gang, Television, Television Series, Who I Am, Wisconsin
Tags: "Sunday Mornin'", Cass Elliot, Dancing in the Street, FM, Folk Rock, Growing Up, Hippies, Intimacy, iPod, John Seiter, Left Coast, Love, Malcolm Hale, Mercury Records, Mornings, Oz Bach, Paul Bach, Perry Como, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Spanky and Our Gang, Spanky McFarlane, Sundays, The Left Coast, The Midwest, The Right Coast, The Sixties, United States
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
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
“King: Montgomery to Memphis” Documentary Comes Out of The Vaults After a 40 Year Absence
• February 24, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Awards, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentary, Domestic Terrorism, Education, Film, Hate Crimes, National Issues, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "King: Montgomery to Memphis", 1955, African Americans, Black Power, Blacks, Desegregation, Documentary, Ellen Holly, Film Documentary, Freedom, James Earl Jones, Kwame Turé, Martin Luther King, Montgomery Bus Boycott, National Film Registry, Racism, Racists, Ruby Dee, Scott Walker, Segregationists, Sidney Lumet, Social Justice, Stokely Carmichael, The Black Power Movement, The Cheesehead Pharoah, The Civil Rights Movement, The Fifties, The New York Times, The Sixties, United States, Wisconsin
Shirley Sherrod Sues Right-Wing Blogger Andrew Breitbart for Libel
• February 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Farmers, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Discrimination, Food, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, National Issues, Native Americans/First Nations, Obama Administration, Race, Shirley Sherrod, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Albany Movement, AOL, Arianna Huffington, Black Farmers, Black Women, Blacks, Charles Sherrod, Civil Rights, Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Keith Olbermann, Liars, NAACP, Native Americans, New Communities of Southwest Georgia, Pigford v. Glickman, President Barack Obama, Racism, Resignation of Shirley Sherrod, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Shirley Sherrod, The Eighties, The Kibbutz Movement, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties
Saturday Night Music, January 29, 2011: The Marvelettes, “Too Many Fish in The Sea,” and The Ancestors Call Its First Lead Singer, Gladys Horton, 66
• January 29, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Music, The Marvelettes, Women
Tags: "Please Mr. Postman", "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game", "Too Many Fish in The Sea", 45s, African Americans, Berry Gordy, Billboard Top 100, Black Women, Blacks, California, Detroit, Detroit MI, Georgeanna Tillman, Gladys Horton, Inkster, Larry Marshak, Marketing, Marvelettes, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wilson, Money, Motown, R & B, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sherman Oaks CA, Singles, Southern California, The Marvelettes, The Sixties, The Supremes, Wanda Young
Actor-Activist Danny Glover Presents “The Black Power Mixtape” at the Sundance Festival
• January 26, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Angela Davis, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Love, National Issues, People of Color, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Sweden, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Democracy Now!", Abiodun Oyewole, African Americans, Amy Goodman, Angela Davis, Black Panther Party, Black Students Union, Black Women, Blacks, BSU, California, Children, COINTELPRO, Common Sense, Constables on Patrol, Danny Glover, Documentary, Drama, Erykah Badu, Film Documentary, Fred Hampton, Goran Olsson, Historians, History, Huey Newton, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Robin D.G. Kelley, San Francisco State, Stokely Carmichael, Sundance Film Festival, Sweden, Swedish, Talib Kweli, The Black Power Movement, The Last Poets, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, WikiLeaks
You “Quiero” Taco Bell Now?
• January 26, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Cultural History, Food, Health, Love, Memoir
Tags: African Americans, Beef, Blacks, Chicken McNuggets, Fake Food, Fast Food, Garlic, Growing Up, Homemade Fast Food, Ingredients, Meat Truck, Onion, PepsiCo, Redevelopment, San Francisco, Soy Products, Steve Raichlen, Taco Bell, The Fillmore, The Sixties, United States Department of Agriculture, What's In It?, Yeast Extract
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