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Sidney Poitier as Seen by His Two Youngest Daughters on Father’s Day

• June 16, 2013 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, African American History, Arts, Black Actors and Actresses, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Education, Film, Holidays, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Japan, Love, People of Color, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom
Tags: Bill Cosby, Diahann Carroll, Joanna Shimkus, KBE, New York, Poitier, Sidney Poitier, Sir Sidney Poitier, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, The Bahamas, Tisch School of the Arts, UNESCO

Black Surfers? It’s Not Just a White Thing. “Whitewash,” Black Surfing Documentary Narrated by Ben Harper and Black Thought of The Roots Now at Hulu

• December 13, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Black Surfers, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Music, Spirituality, Sports, Travel, Weather, Women
Tags: African American, Amelia Earhart, Beach Boys, Ben Harper, Black People, Black Surfers, Black Thought, California Girls, Coast Starlight, Documentary, Don Schollander, Esther Williams, Ethnicity, Fordham University, Gidget, James Brown, John Hoberman, Kelly Slater, Los Angeles, Memoir, New Orleans, Rob Machado, Sal Masekela, Soui, Southern California, Sports Commentator, Surf, Surf Culture, Surfing, Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, Tariq Trotter, The Roots, United States, Whitewash

UPDATE: Heavy D’s Funeral Friday, November 18, To Be Live-Streamed; Plus Autopsy Results Prove Inconclusive and What Might Have Been

• November 18, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, African American History, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Consumerism, Cultural History, Film, Food, Health, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Music, Music Videos, Pneumonia/Respiratory Diseases, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), United Kingdom, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Women
Tags: Al Sharpton, Baptist, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Consumerism, Dwight Arrington Myers, Ernie Davis, Floyd Myers, Grace Baptist Church, Heavy D, Hip-Hop Pioneer, Kim Burrell, Los Angeles, Lungs, Mount Vernon New York, Pneumonia, Rapper, Russell Simmons, Smooth Hip Hop, Smooth Rap, The Overweight Lover, Wretched Excess, Xea Myers

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 Off

Posted 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

The President and The First Lady in Ireland

• May 23, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Immigration, Ireland, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Scotland, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Ancestry, Barack Obama, Blacks, Enda Kenny, George W. Bush, Great Famine (Ireland), Ireland, Irish American, Irish of Color, Love, Moneygall, Muhammad Ali, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, Republic of Ireland, Taoiseach, The Great Famine, The Irish Diaspora, United States

The Ancestors Bring Historian Basil Davidson, 95, Home

• July 10, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in African American History, Africans, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Books, Brazil, Class, Cuba, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, European History, Exploration and Colonization, Film, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, History, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Journalism and Ethics, Nigeria, Race, Senegal, The Rest of the World, United Kingdom, Women, World War II, Zimbabwe
Tags: "Africa: A Voyage of Discovery with Basil Davidson", "The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation State", African, African Americans, African History, Africanist, Afrocentrists, Amazon.com, American History, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Fascist Fighter, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Racism, Basil Davidson, Basil Risbridger Davidson, Blacks, Britain, British, Colonialism, Edward Said, Eric Hobsbawm, European History, Historian, History, Journalism, Journalist, Racism, Texas School Board, The Atlantic Slave Trade, The Slave Trade, The West

“Small Island” Concludes on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre Sunday

• April 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted 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 Off

Posted 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

Friday Night Music, March 5, 2010: Des’ree, “You Gotta Be,” 1994

• March 5, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Barbados, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Des'ree, Health, Jamaica/British Caribbean, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Music Videos, Spirituality, Television, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Dream Soldier", "I Ain't Movin'", "You Gotta Be, Arts, Barbados, Beyonce, Blacks, Common Sense, Des'ree, Desirée Annette Weeks, Janet Jackson, Lyrics, Music, Romeo + Juliet, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Song Lyrics, The Caribbean, The Nineties

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