It Is Nelson Mandela’s 93rd Birthday; Devote 67 Minutes of Your Day or Your Week to Public Service and Charities
• July 18, 2011 • Comments Off on It Is Nelson Mandela’s 93rd Birthday; Devote 67 Minutes of Your Day or Your Week to Public Service and CharitiesPosted in Africans, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Love, South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, World History
Tags: "Invictus", Africa, African National Congress, ANC, Frailty, Freedom, Human Rights, Jacob Zuma, Julius Malema, Madiba, Morgan Freeman, Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize, Old Age, Old Guard, Privy Councillor, Qunu, Security, South Africa, Thembu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Xhosa
“King: Montgomery to Memphis” Documentary Comes Out of The Vaults After a 40 Year Absence
• February 24, 2011 • Comments Off on “King: Montgomery to Memphis” Documentary Comes Out of The Vaults After a 40 Year AbsencePosted 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
“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