Archive for January, 2010
• January 31, 2010 •
Comments Off on So Whatever Happened to Ty’Sheoma Bethea and Her School in South Carolina?
Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Education, Health, Joblessness, Obama Administration, Race, Sick Building Syndrome/Dilapidated Buildings, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Stimulus Bill, Ty'Sheoma Bethea, Women
Tags: Atlanta GA, Charles "Bud" Ferillo, Department of Agriculture, Dillon County, Dillon S.C., Governor Mark Sanford, J.V. Martin Middle School, Mayor Todd Davis, Superintendent Ray Rogers, The Corridor of Shame, The South, Ty'Sheoma Bethea
• January 31, 2010 •
Comments Off on Novelist and Playwright Chris Abani Tells Stories About Our Shared Humanity
Posted in Africans, Arts, Black People, Comedy, Drama, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Nigeria, People of Color, Race, Religion, South Africa, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Masters of the Board", Buddhism, Chris Abani, Comedy, Drama, English, Igbo, Imprisonment, London UK, Memoirs, Monologist, Monologue, Political Prisoner, Solitary Confinement, Ubuntu, UC Riverside, University of California, Video
• January 29, 2010 •
Comments Off on The President DEMOLISHES the House Republicans at Their Baltimore Retreat
Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Democrats, Health, Health Care/The Public Option, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, Teabagging Party, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "The Atlantic", Baltimore, Baltimore MD, Booman Tribune, C-Span, Chris Matthews, Democratic Party, Democrats, Faux Noise, Fox News, GOP, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, House of Commons, House of Representatives, Karl Rove, Keith Olbermann, Marc Armbinder, Mike Pence, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Question Time, Rachel Maddow, Republican Party, Republicans, Reverse Ambush, Rovian, Spending, State of the Union Address, Talking Points, The Budget, The Great Recession, The Party of No, The Stimulus Plan, Tweety
• January 29, 2010 •
Comments Off on Jasmina Anema, 6, Dies of Leukemia; Spurred Bone Marrow Drives Among Blacks, People of Color, Multiracials
Posted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, Health, Leukemia, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, Science, Women
Tags: African Americans, Aggressive NK Leukemia, Asian Americans, Asians, Barack Obama, Be-The-Match Registry, BFFs, Blacks, Bone Marrow Donor, Bone Marrow Drives, Bone Marrow Transplant, CaringBridge.org, Celebrity Deaths, DKMS Americas, Donors, Hispanics, Jasmina Anema, Latinas, Latinos, Leukemia, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Michelle Williams, OneForJasmina.com, Paul Pierce, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Rihanna, Rihanna Fenty, The First Daddy, Thea Anema
• January 28, 2010 •
Comments Off on Oh-Oh. Ike Turner’s FBI File Has Been Declassified and Released
Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Women
Tags: Addiction, Allegations, Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, Burglary, Caper, Clarence M. Kelley, Cocaine, Coke, Dreams and Schemes, Embezzlement, Examiner.com, FBI, FBI File, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fender Twin, Ike Turner, Los Angeles, Robbery, Schemes, Stealing, Tina Turner, Turner
• January 28, 2010 •
3 Comments
Posted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cuba, Education, Haiti, History, Iran, Mexico, Native Americans/First Nations, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, The Economy, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "A People's History of the United States", "Memory of Fire", "The People Speak", Alice Walker, Anti-War, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Civil Libertarian, Dresden, Eduardo Galeano, Heart Attack, Hiroshima, Historian, Howard Zinn, Iraq, James Bond, James Carroll, Jeff Zinn, Marian Wright Edelman, Matt Damon, Myla Kabat-Zinn, Nazis, Noam Chomsky, Royan France, Spelman College, The Greatest Generation, Tokyo, Vietnam
• January 28, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Differently-Abled, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Teabagging Party, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: African American, African Americans, Barack Obama, Blacks, Blue Dogs, CAPA, Children, Chris Matthews. Tweety, Constables on Patrol, Creative and Performing Arts High School, Crime, Cultural Identity, David Sisek, Differently-Abled, Excessive Force, Fat Cats, High School Students, Jordan Miles, Mentally Challenged, Michael Suldette, MSNBC, Pittsburgh PA, Police Brutality, Post-Racial Era, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racial Identity, Racial Profiling, Republicans, Revolt, Richard Ewing, State of the Union Address, Tea Party Movement, Teenagers, Terez Miles, The Blue Curtain, Wall Street, WPXI
• January 27, 2010 •
Comments Off on 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
Posted 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
• January 24, 2010 •
Comments Off on Rooting for Brett, Rooting for the Saints
Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Sports, Television, The Ninth Ward
Tags: 'Niners, American Cities, American City, Assassinations, Brett Favre, Carnival, City Hall, Delirium, Exile, Forty Niners, Geaux Saints!, George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Hurricane Katrina, Jonestown, Joy, Katrina, Mardi Gras, New Orleans, New Orleans Saints, Prima Donna, Speculators, The Minnesota Vikings, The Ninth Ward, The San Francisco 49ers, The Super Bowl, Vikes, World Championship
• January 23, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Charity Telethons, Class, Emeline Michel, Health, Music, Natural Disasters, People of Color, Race, Television, The Roots
Tags: "Hope for Haiti Now", "Joni Mitchell of Haiti", "Many Rivers to Cross", Blacks, Emeline Michel, George Clooney, Haiti, Haitian Music, Haitians, Jimmy Cliff, Singer Songwriter, The Haitian Earthquake, World Music
• January 21, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Gossip, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Religion, Sexuality, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Circuses, Eldrick Tont Woods, Eldrick Woods, Found, Golf, Golf Pro, Golfer, Golfing, Hattiesburg MS, Location, Love, Multiracial, Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services, Radar. com, Self-Affirming, Sex, Sex Addiction, Sex Machines, Sexuality, Tabloid Press, Tabloids, Tiger Woods
• January 19, 2010 •
Comments Off on “Brown Man Thinking Hard”: Don’t Believe Everything the Media Says About Haiti
Posted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Class, Haiti, Health, History, Journalism and Ethics, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Africa, Alfred Metraux, C.L.R. James, Central America, Education, Haiti, Kindle, Maya Deren, Mexico, Noam Chomsky, Randall Robinson, Read, Reading, South America, Talking Back to Your Television, The Caribbean, Voodoo, Voudou, Wikipedia.com, Zora Neale Hurston
• January 19, 2010 •
Comments Off on Wyclef Jean Explains It All For Us
Posted in American Foreign Policy, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Gossip, Haiti, Journalism and Ethics, Natural Disasters, People of Color, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Celebrity Giving, Charities, Haiti, Haitians, Philanthropy, Port au Prince, Press Conference, Scam, Scams, The Haitian Earthquake, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti
• January 18, 2010 •
Comments Off on King
Posted in Afghanistan, American Politics, Black People, Hate Crimes, History, Holidays, Iran, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Religion, Television, The Iraq War II, The Rest of the World, War Crimes
Tags: Civil Rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Favorite, Human Rights, Martin Luther King Jr., Peace, President Lyndon Johnson, Riverside Church, The Sixties, The Vietnam War, Vietnam
• January 18, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in Acting, Awards, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Film, Mo'Nique, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Precious", "Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire", Acceptance Speech, Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Comedienne, Favorite, Front Runner, Golden Globes, Live and in Color, Mo'Nique, Oscars, Real, Sidney Hicks, The Oscars
• January 17, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in American Foreign Policy, Bailouts, Black People, Class, Crime, Cuba, Education, Haiti, Health, History, HIV Positive, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Joblessness, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Subprime Loans-Foreclosures, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Stimulus Bill
Tags: Artibonite Valley, Ayiti, Barack Obama, Blacks, Castro, Creoles, Dirt, Fair-Skinned, Fidel Castro, Floods, François Duvalier, Globalization, Haiti, Haitians, HIV Virus, Hurricanes, Immigration, Intestinal Parasites, Jean-Claude Duvalier, Katrina, Leftist, Light-Skinned, Malaria, Mudcakes, Mudslides, President Aristide, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Roosevelt Administration, The Black Republic, The Caribbean, The Nineties, Tourist Trap, Tuberculosis
• January 14, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Jasmyne Cannick, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Our Weekly: Los Angeles", "The Malibu Surfside News", Ann Soble, Bipolar Disorder, City of Malibu, Infliction of Emotional Distress, L.A. County, Latice Sutton, Leo Terrell, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Malibu CA, Michael Richardson, Mitrice Richardson, Mitrice Richardson Law, Negligence, Santa Monica Mountains, Wrongful Death
• January 14, 2010 •
3 Comments
Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Differently-Abled, Health, Love, Music, Sexuality, Teddy Pendergrass, Women
Tags: "If You Don't Know Me By Now", "The Love I Lost", "Truly Blessed", "Wake Up Everybody", Aural Viagra, Bisexuality, Differently-Abled, Eddie Murphy, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, Love, Paralysis, Philadelphia International Records, Philadelphia PA, R&B, Sex, Sexuality, Stanford University, Teddy Bear, Teddy P, Teddy Pendergrass, Tenika Wilson, The Eighties, The Marguerite, The Seventies, TP, Women
• January 13, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in American Foreign Policy, Class, Haiti, History, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, People of Color, Race, The Rest of the World
Tags: Aftershocks, American Red Cross, Blood, Capital, Charity Navigator, Creoles, Direct Relief, Earthquake, Food, Haiti, Haitian Health Foundation, Haitians, Hope for Haiti, Oxfam, Port au Prince, Prayer, Shelter, The Black Republic, The Salvation Army, The Western Hemisphere, Water, Wyclef Jean
• January 10, 2010 •
Comments Off on Mitrice is Not Found
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Los Angeles Times", Cops, Death by Cops, Death by Misadventure, Detective Chuck Knolls, Detective Steven Eguchi, Diahann Carroll, Disappearance, Divers, Hiker, Inyo National Forest, L.A. County Sheriff's Department, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputies, L.A. Police Department, L.A.P.D., Latice Sutton, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Malibu CA, Michael Richardson, Mitrice Richardson, Posses, Searchers, Steve Fossett, Steve Whitmore, Unexplained Disappearance
• January 9, 2010 •
Comments Off on Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby and Pokey, Dies at 88
Posted in Art, Art Clokey, Children's Shows, Clay Animation, Documentaries, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Religion, Science, Television
Tags: "Black Bart", "Gumbasia", "Gumby Dharma", "Mandala", "The Adventures of Gumby", Art Clokey, Clay Animation, Clokey, ComicCon 2009, Dallas McKinnon, Davey and Goliath, Eddie Murphy, Fourth Street, Gender, Ginny Tyler, Google, Gumby, Gumbyana, Joseph Clokey, Kinesthetic Film Principles, Matt Groening, Nancy Wible, Native American, Norma McMillan, Pokey, Raceless, Robina Marchesi, Ruth Clokey, San Rafael CA, Slavko Vorkapich, Southern California, Stop Motion Clay Animation, The Eighties, The Nineties, The San Rafael Art Center, The Sixties, The Sundance Channel, You Tube, Zen Buddhism
• January 9, 2010 •
Comments Off on Meanwhile, Back in Los Angeles: Pretrial Hearings Underway in the Oscar Grant Case
Posted 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
• January 9, 2010 •
Comments Off on Meanwhile, Back in Las Vegas: Michael Jackson’s Former Doctor Lawyers Up
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Gossip, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter
Tags: "Entertainment Weekly", "Milk", Addictive, Anesthesiology, Cardiologist, Conspiracy Theories, Criminal Charges, Dr. Conrad Murray, Dr. Conrad Robert Murray, Echo Chamber, Ed Chernoff, Homicide, IMG, Investigation, Involuntary Manslaughter, J. Michael Flanagan, Joe Jackson, John Branca, John McClain, LaToya Jackson, Los Angeles County District Attorney, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, Negligence, Propofol, Tiger Woods, TMZ.com
• January 7, 2010 •
Comments Off on Police and Sheriff’s Deputies Combine to Search Large Expanse of Lost Hills-Malibu Canyon Area Where Mitrice Richardson Disappeared
Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Malibu Surfside News", "www.bringmitricehome.org", Bones, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Death by Misadventure, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Geoffrey's Restaurant, LAPD, LASD, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Malibu CA, Malibu Canyon, Mitrice, Mitrice Richardson, Rep. Maxine Waters, Unexplained Disappearance
• January 6, 2010 •
1 Comment
Posted in American Politics, Black People, Crime, Hate Crimes, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color
Tags: "The Diary of Anne Frank", Anne Frank, Holocaust Denier, Holocaust Museum, James von Brunn, James Wanneker von Brunn, Killings, Mentally Disturbed, North Carolina, Psychiatric Testing, Racism, Racist, Security Guard, Shootings, Stephen Johns, Stephen Tyrone Johns, The Holocaust Museum, U.S. Holocaust Museum, White Supremacist, White Supremacy
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