“Somewhere” is Here and Now
• February 13, 2011 • Comments Off on “Somewhere” is Here and NowPosted in Africans, Algeria, American Foreign Policy, American History, Arabs, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Egypt, Film, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Revolutions, Spirituality, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Tunisia, World History
Tags: "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", "Somewhere", "The White Queen of Soul", "West Side Story", African Americans, Algeria, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Birmingham AL, Blacks, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dusty Springfield, Egypt, Freedom, Governor Walker, Kennedy Center Honors, Love, Martin Luther King, Miss Re, Miss Re Re, Pell Grant, Quincy Jones, Right-to-Work, Roberta Flack, Scott Walker, Self-Worth, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tunisia, Wisconsin
Why Nichelle Nichols Stayed On As Uhura in “Star Trek”
• September 9, 2010 • Comments Off on Why Nichelle Nichols Stayed On As Uhura in “Star Trek”Posted in Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Love, Memoir, Music, Nichelle Nichols, Race, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories", "Reflections", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Commander Nyota Uhura, Creepin', Decision, Dr. King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Extramarital Relationships, First Interracial Kiss on TV, Gene Roddenberry, Interracial Relationships, Kiss, Los Angeles CA, Love, Lt. Uhura, Majel Barrett, NAACP, Race, Racism, Saint of the Sixties, Savas Abadsidis, Sex, Star Trek, Starship Enterprise, The Original Series", UCLA, William Shatner
So..How Many Advertisers Does Glenn Beck Have Left?
• September 2, 2010 • Comments Off on So..How Many Advertisers Does Glenn Beck Have Left?Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Islam/Sufism, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: "Fox & Friends", "People Power", "The Progressive", Advertisers, Boycott, Britain, Cambridge MA, Chris Wallace, Christopher Pike, Color of Change, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Edmund Pettus Bridge, Edward Bellamy, Faux Noise, Ferdinand Marcos, Fox News, George Washington, Glenn Beck, Hate, James Rucker, Low Rent District, Mahatma, Media Matters, MLK, Mohandas Gandhi, Mormon, National Archive, Racism, Right Wing, RTV, Rupert Murdoch, Sarah Palin, St. Francis of Assisi, The Berrigan Brothers, The Dream, The KKK, The Klan, The Lincoln Memorial, The Philippines, The Raj, This.TV, Tiananmen Square, White Supremacy, Winston Churchill
King Died 42 Years Ago Today
• April 4, 2010 • Comments Off on King Died 42 Years Ago TodayPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Murder/Manslaughter, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: 1968, African Americans, Anniversary, Assassination, Blacks, CBS, CBS News, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., FBI, Fear, Growing Up, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis TN, Moral Center, Murder, New Orleans, The Sixties, Walter Cronkite, Whites
King
• January 18, 2010 • Comments Off on KingPosted 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
Obama’s Nobel Speech and the Price of War
• December 11, 2009 • Comments Off on Obama’s Nobel Speech and the Price of WarPosted in Afghanistan, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Education, History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Torture, War Crimes
Tags: "Rolling Stone", Afghanistan, al Qaeda, American Apartheid, Buddhism, Buddhist, Civil Disobedience, Civilians, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Iraq, Lebanon, Mass Shooter, Matt Taibbi, MSM, Nonviolence, Norway, Osama bin Laden, Peace, President Barack Obama, President Obama, President Theodore Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, The Media, The Nobel Peace Prize, The Obama Doctrine, The Wailing Wall, Theodore Roosevelt, Unarmed, Vice President Joe Biden, Vietnam, War