This Sista Has No Life After “The Red Wedding”
• June 6, 2013 • Comments Off on This Sista Has No Life After “The Red Wedding”Posted in Acting, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, HBO, Love, Race, Sexuality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "A Song of Ice and Fire", "Inglourious Basterds", A Storm of Swords, African Americans, Amanda Marcotte, Blacks, Game of Thrones, HBO, House Frey, House Lannister, House Stark, King of the North, Love, Memorial Day, Murder, Natural Born Killers, Quentin Tarantino, Red Wedding, Sex, Song of Ice and Fire, Talisa Maegyr, The Patriarachy, Westeros
Bill Maher on Last Night’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live”
• April 3, 2013 • 2 CommentsPosted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Public Intellectualism, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Bill Maher, Catholicism, Christopher Hitchens, Common Sense, HBO, Jimmy Kimmel, LGBT, Maher, Marriage, Raw Story, Same-Sex Marriage, Sex, United States
Saturday Night Music, September 1, 2012: “Best of My Love,” The Emotions, Live at Sinbad’s Summer Jam, 1998
• September 2, 2012 • Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, September 1, 2012: “Best of My Love,” The Emotions, Live at Sinbad’s Summer Jam, 1998Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Cultural History, Love, Music, The Emotions, Women
Tags: "The Midnight Special", African Americans, Al McKay, Arts, Aruba, Black Women, Blacks, California, Caribbean, Clarence McDonald, Comedy, David Adkins, Different World, Earth Wind and Fire, EWF, Funk, HBO, Houseguest, Jingle All the Way, Los Angeles, Love, Maurice White, McDonald, Music, Nostalgia, Showtime, Sinbad, Sinbad's Summer Jam, Soul, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States
“The Way of All Flesh,” A Documentary About Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, The Immortal
• June 5, 2011 • Comments Off on “The Way of All Flesh,” A Documentary About Henrietta Lacks, HeLa, The ImmortalPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Cancer, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Health, Henrietta Lacks/HeLa, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Oprah", "Shadow and Act", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Cancer, Cell, Cell Line, Consent, Death, Disease, Exploitation, Feature Film, Harpo Productions, HBO, HeLa, Henrietta Lack, Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Informed Consent, Life, Medicine, Oprah Winfrey, Racism, Rebecca Skloot, Stealing, The Fifties, The Lack Family, United States
Preview of Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls,” A Documentary About Dark Skin Prejudice and How It Affects Dark-Skinned Black Women
• May 26, 2011 • 17 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: "Dark Girls", African American culture, African Americans, Alice Walker, Attractiveness, Bill Duke, Black Black Man, Black Black Woman, Black People, Black Women, Bradinn French, D. Channsin Berry, Documentary, HBO, Human skin color, Kanazawa, Love, Physical attractiveness, Psychology Today, Satoshi Kanazawa, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Short Film, Skillet Blond, Sundance, Women
Schwarzenegger Puts Reviving His Film Career On Hold, Plus News Outlets Are Baying to Publish a Photo of His Newly-Acknowledged Child
• May 19, 2011 • Comments Off on Schwarzenegger Puts Reviving His Film Career On Hold, Plus News Outlets Are Baying to Publish a Photo of His Newly-Acknowledged ChildPosted in American Politics, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Film, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Sexuality, The Kennedys, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Ninth Ward
Tags: "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise", Apostasy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bakersfield California, Children, Creative Artists Agency, Drama, Evasion, Gray Davis, HBO, Katrina, Latinos, Lying, Maria Shriver, Marriage, Mildred Baena, Mildred Patricia Baena, New Orleans, Pants, RadarOnline, Spike Lee, Stalkerazzi, Terminator, Terminator (franchise)
“Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans” Here for a Limited Time Only
• May 13, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Awards, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cooking, Crime, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Food, Hate Crimes, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, National Issues, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Political Malfeasance, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Television, The Catholic Church, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Congo Square", "Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans", "Treme", Arguments, Black Creoles, Black Neighborhood, Brenda Marie Osbey, Broken Levees, California Newsreel, Community, Documentary, Father Jerome LeDoux, Film Documentary, Film Festivals, Glen David Andrews, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Lenwood Sloan, Levees, Lolis Eric Elie, Nature, New Orleans, New Orleans Music, San Francisco International Film Festival, South Madison Branch Public Library, St. Augustine Parish, The Mississippi River, Tribeca Film Festival, Wynton Marsalis
“Sing Your Song”, a Bio Documentary on Harry Belafonte, Comes to HBO in Fall 2011
• March 10, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Music, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Television, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Shadow and Act", "Sing Your Song", African Americans, Biography, Caribbean-Americans, Civil Rights, Documentary, Gina Belafonte, Harry Belafonte, HBO, Julius R. Nasso, Karol Martesko-Fenster, Martin Luther King Jr., Michael Cohl, NeoGriot, Paul Robeson, Sundance Film Festival, The Caribbean, The Futon Critic, United States
The Fifth of Katrina – The People
• August 29, 2010 • Comments Off on The Fifth of Katrina – The PeoplePosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Race, Spirituality, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Ninth Ward, Wisconsin, Women
Tags: "Frontline", "The Nation", "The Old Man and The Storm", "When the Levees Broke", 5027 North Roman Street, AK-47, Algiers Point, Aligiers Point Ferry, Architectural Critics, Architecture, Artistry, Building Artisans, Bushwhacked, Catastrophe, Cheryl Gettridge Steele, Chris Collins, Common Ground, Communities, Cox News, Danny Brumfield, Donnell Herrington, Effort, Gun Nuts, HBO, Henry Glover, Herbert Gettridge, Hurricane Katrina, Interview, Katrina, Killings, Looters, Louisiana, Love, Lydia Gettridge, Madison WI, Marcel Alexander, Mardi Gras, Martial Law, Master, Mental Health, Middle Class Blacks, Milvirtha Hendricks, Milvirtha Knight Hendricks, Mississippi, Nathan Roper, Neighborhoods, New Orleans, New Orleans Police, New Orleans Police Department, NOPD, Order to Shoot to Kill, PBS, Plasterer, Police Shootings, Race War, Racist, Right Wing, Roland Bourgeois, Shoot to Kill, Shootings, Shot, Spike Lee, Survivalist, Sweat, Texas, The FBI, The Lower Ninth Ward, The Road Home Program, Trauma, Truck Stop, Ugly, Ugly Ways, Vigilantes, Vinnie Pervel, Wayne Janak, WDSU, White Vigilantes, Whites, Wisconsin
Spike Lee Returns with a New Documentary About New Orleans (and the Oil-Soaked Gulf) Five Years After Katrina on HBO
• August 19, 2010 • Comments Off on Spike Lee Returns with a New Documentary About New Orleans (and the Oil-Soaked Gulf) Five Years After Katrina on HBOPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Democrats in Name Only, Documentaries, Documentary, Education, Environmental Crimes, Film, Haiti, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Health, Hurricanes, Journalism and Ethics, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Obama Administration, People of Color, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Cancer Alley", "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise", "Treme", "When the Levees Broke", African Americans, Alabama, Barack Obama, Big Oil, Blacks, BP, Brown, Bush, Cable TV, Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Debut, Dick Cheney, Documentary, Environmental Disaster, Florida, George W. Bush, Haiti, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Louisiana, Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Michael Brown, Mississippi, Neighborhoods, New Orleans LA, NOLA, NOLA.com, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Premiere, President Barack Obama, Rep. Joseph Cao, Seafood Industry, Sean Penn, Simonize, Spike, Spike Lee, The BP Oil Spill, The Deepwater Horizon, The Gulf Coast, The Mahalia Jackson Theatre, Vietnamese Community, Wendell Pierce, William "Cold Cash" Jefferson
Preview of “Treme,” Fifth Episode: “Shame, Shame, Shame”
• May 8, 2010 • Comments Off on Preview of “Treme,” Fifth Episode: “Shame, Shame, Shame”Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cultural History, Drama, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Treme", African Americans, Blacks, Cable, Community, Disaster, Drama, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Survivors, Hurricanes, Katrina, Musicians, New Orleans, New Orleans LA, New Orleans Police Department, Picking Up the Pieces, Preview, Rebuilding, Republicans, TV Series
Preview of “Treme,” Second Episode: “Meet De Boys on De Battlefront”
• April 17, 2010 • Comments Off on Preview of “Treme,” Second Episode: “Meet De Boys on De Battlefront”Posted in African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Drama, Hate Crimes, Health, History, Homelessness, Hurricanes, Joblessness, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Music, Music Videos, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, People of Color, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Television, Television Series, The Catholic Church, Women
Tags: "Meet De Boys on De Battlefront", "Treme", African Americans, Back of Town, Blacks, Cable TV, Children, Couples, Dixieland, Drama, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Jazz Musicians, Katrina, Love, Missing, Missing Person, Murder, Music, New Orleans, New Orleans Music, Racism, Relationships, Renewed, Second Season, Self-Respect, Television, Wordpress Blog
I Can’t Watch “Treme” on HBO, But You Can Starting April 11 (w/Update)
• April 9, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Drama, Hurricanes, Love, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Television, Television Series
Tags: "Buy Us Back Chirac", "Do What You Wanna", "Fuck You You Fucking Fucks", "FYYFFs", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Wire", "Treme", Ashley Morris, Back of Town, Cable TV, David Mills, David Simon, Hana Morris, HBO, Hurricane Katrina, Jazz, Jazz Musicians, Katrina, Kermit Ruffins, Levees, Mardi Gras Indians, Mary McNamara, Music, New Orleans, New Orleans LA, oyster, Rebirth Brass Band, The Crescent City, Wendell Pierce, Your Right Hand Thief
Democrats “Going It Alone” on Health Care; Is Obama Coming, Too?
• August 21, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in American Politics, Bailouts, Class, Democrats, Democrats in Name Only, Health, History, Obama Administration, The Economy, The Stimulus Bill
Tags: "Real Time with Bill Maher", Arianna Huffington, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Big Pharma, Blue Dog Democrats, CBS News, Daily Kos, Democratic Leadership Council, DLC, Faux Noise, Frank Rich, GOP, HBO, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Jed Lewison, Jonathan Alter, LaRouchies, Los Angeles CA, Lyndon LaRouche, Nazis, Paul Krugman, Pre-Existing Conditions, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Remote Area Medical, Rep. Barney Frank, Republicans, Senator Charles Grassley, Slap the Reality Back into Them Award, Subhumans, The Left of the Left, The Public Option, The Washington Post, Turning Yella, Underinsured, Uninsured, Welfare, Wingnuts, Wingnuttery, Work, Working Americans
Dave Chappelle’s Free Show Attracts Thousands at Portland’s Pioneer Square
• July 15, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Television
Tags: Channel 8, Dave Chappelle, Dave Chappelle Show, Facebook, HBO, Impromptu, KGW-TV, Local 35, Pioneer Square, Portland, Portland OR, Spur of the Moment, Tweets, Twitter
Getting “Real”: Bill Maher’s New Rules For Republicans After The Past Two Weeks
• May 8, 2011 • Comments Off on Getting “Real”: Bill Maher’s New Rules For Republicans After The Past Two WeeksPosted in Afghanistan, African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Arabs, Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill Maher, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Democrats, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, International Terrorism, Iraq, Islam/Sufism, Late Night TV, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, Pakistan, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: "Real Time with Bill Maher", Africa, African American, African Americans, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Bill Maher, Black, Cleaning House, Comedy, Commentary, Common Sense, Conspiracy Theories, Defense, FBP, First Black President, GOP, Grecian Formula, HBO, Just for Men, Michael Eric Dyson, National Security, Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama, Punditry, Pundits, Racism, Republican, Saudi Arabia, Seth Meyers, The Economy, The Rich, The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Timothy Geithner, Tora Bora, Twin Towers, United States