Sandra Fluke Could Be Anyone’s Daughter, Sister, Friend, Wife, Lover: She Could Be You
• March 5, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in American History, American Politics, Class, Cultural History, Education, Facebook, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Pregnancy/Pre-Natal Issues, Public Intellectualism, Reproductive Rights, Sandra Fluke, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: Anger, Barbara Walters, Black Women, Catholics, Civil Discourse, Color of Change, Darrell Issa, Democratic Party, Democrats, Discourse, Ed Schultz, Facebook, Fluke, Georgetown University, Homophobia, Jesuits, Memoir, Misogyny, Patricia Heaton, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Republicans, Right Wing, Right-Wing Smear, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, Talk Radio, The Blunt Amendment, The Non-Apology Apology, The Pill, The View, Twitter, Viagra, Women, Women of Color
Olympic Sprinter Lee Evans, 63, Has a Brain Tumor and No Health Insurance (w/Update)
• January 5, 2012 • Comments Off on Olympic Sprinter Lee Evans, 63, Has a Brain Tumor and No Health Insurance (w/Update)Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Education, Exploration and Colonization, Health, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, The Brain
Tags: "Sicko", "Speed City", "The Nation", 1968 Summer Olympics, African Americans, Avery Brundage, Black Women, Blacks, California, Dave Zirin, East San Jose, Evans, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, Geronimo Pratt, Growing Up, John Carlos, Kipchoge Keino, Larry James, Latinos, Lee Evans, Memoir, New Orleans, Nigeria, Olympic, Overfelt High School, Overfelt Royals, PayPal, Public Schools, San Jose, San Jose State, San Jose State University, Spartans, The Seventies, The Sixties, Tommie Smith, University of South Alabama, William C. Overfelt High School
A Little Marvin and Tammi on a Sunday: “You’re All I Need to Get By”
• June 12, 2011 • Comments Off on A Little Marvin and Tammi on a Sunday: “You’re All I Need to Get By”Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "You're All I Need to Get By", African Americans, Berry Gordy, Black Women, Blacks, Brain Tumor, California, Domestic Violence, Drama, Funk Brothers, Gaye, Growing Up, Love, Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Memoir, Motown, Rape, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Tammi, Tammi Terrell, The Funk Brothers, The Sixties, United States, Wikipedia
Justin, Don’t Touch Esperanza’s Hair Again
• February 16, 2011 • Comments Off on Justin, Don’t Touch Esperanza’s Hair AgainPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Celebrity Children, Class, Cultural History, Esperanza Spalding, Journalism and Ethics, Memoir, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: African Americans, Afros, American Racism, Associated Press, Black Latina, Black Women, Blacks, Born-Again Christian, Canadian Racism, Children, Common Sense, Death Threats, Esperanza Spalding, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Hacking, Hair, Insult, John Mayer, Justin Bieber, Latina, Latinos, Memoir, Mormons, Multiracial, Multiracials, New Orleans, Patting, Racism, Rubbing, The Grammy, The Grio, Vandalized, Wikipedia
The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94
• October 16, 2010 • Comments Off on The Beaver’s Mom, Barbara Billingsley, Dies at 94Posted in Acting, American History, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Fashion, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Airplane", "Leave It to Beaver", "Ward, Barbara Billingsley, Eddie Haskell, Embarrassment, Fred Rutherford, Hollywood, Hugh Beaumont, I'm Worried About the Beaver", I. Magnin, I. Magnin's, Jerry Mathers, Jive, June Cleaver, Los Angeles Times, Lumpy, Memoir, Middle Class White America, Mom, Mother, Pearls, Pre-Feminism, San Francisco, Santa Monica California, Shame, Sherman Billingsley, Suburbia, The Beaver, The Fifties, The Middle Class, The Stork Club, Theodore Cleaver, Tony Dow, United States, Wally Cleaver, Ward Cleaver, White American Boyhood, White Suburbia, Wikipedia
James Willie Jones with His Daughter Chatari: How Much and How Long Must He Apologize?
• October 7, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Education, Joblessness, Love, Memoir, People of Color, Race, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "The Today Show", African Americans, Alonzo Brundidge, Anti-Bullying, Apologies, Big Scary Black Man, Black Fatherhood, Black Relationships, Black Women, Bullying, Cerebral Palsy, Chatari Jones, Children, Ego, Father, Fatherhood, Fragile, Gangsta, Gay Teen Suicides, Growing Up, Hard, Hospitalization, Jail Time, James Jones, James Willie Jones, Lake Mary, Lake Mary Florida, Love, Matt Lauer, Memoir, Reform School, Schools, Seminole County, Sensitive, Suicide, Swagger, Tender, The Great Recession, Today (NBC program), Tyler Clementi, Violence and Abuse, Working Class, Working Poor, Wrong!
Yesterday, Nine Years Ago
• September 12, 2010 • Comments Off on Yesterday, Nine Years AgoPosted in Afghanistan, African American History, Africans, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Arabs, Bailouts, Black People, Cancer, Class, Consumerism, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Health, History, Homelessness, Immigration, Indians/Bangladeshi/Pakistani, Iran, Iraq, Islam/Sufism, Jews, Joblessness, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, People of Color, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Protestant Denominations, Public Intellectualism, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Teabagging Party, The Catholic Church, The Economy, The Iraq War II, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: 2001, 2050, 30 Mosques 30 States, Afghanistan, African Americans, al Qaeda, Alpha Kappa Alpha, American, American Exceptionalism, American Extremism, American Racism, Americans, Ayman al Zawahiri, B-17, B-29, BBC, Bin Laden, Black Muslims, Brown-Skinned People, Bush, California, Collateral Damage, Faculty Meeting, Fear, Fiction Writing, Human Beings, Iraq, Israel, Jingoism, Lebanon, Lives, Memoir, Mike Wallace, Mosques, Multiracial, Muslim Americans, Muslim Extremism, Muslims, Nationalism, Nativism, New York, New York City, North Dakota, Novel, NPR, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestinians, Racism, Reactionaries, Reactionary, Ross, Saudi Arabia, September 11, Sheboygan WI, Shi'a, Sunni, Television, Terrorists, The Bay Area, The Empire State Building, The FBI, The Justice Department, The Twin Towers, The World Trade Center, Travel Scholarship, Under Armour Caps, W, War on Terror, Writing, Writing Residency
Saturday Night Music, March 13, 2010: Sly and The Family Stone, “I Want to Take You Higher,” 1969
• March 13, 2010 • Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, March 13, 2010: Sly and The Family Stone, “I Want to Take You Higher,” 1969Posted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentary, Drug Culture/Industry, Film, Memoir, Music, People of Color, Race, Sly and The Family Stone, Spirituality, Women
Tags: "Coming Back for More", "I Want to Take You Higher", "Stand!", African Americans, Blacks, California, Documentary, Drugs, Growing Up, Memoir, Nudity, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, Sly and The Family Stone, Stoned, The Seventies, Willem Alkema
Shaniya Davis: The Details of Her Rape and Death Emerge
• November 20, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Domestic Violence, Drug Culture/Industry, Health, History, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Respect", African Americans, American Apartheid, Antoinette, Antoinette Davis, Autobiography, Billie Holiday, Blacks, Child, Children, Crime, Deer, Disrespect, Domestic Violence, Dreadlocks, Drug Bust, Drugs, History, Josephine Baker, Labor, Mario Andrette McNeill, Maya Angelou, McNeill, Memoir, Minor Children, Missing Children, Motherhood, Murder, New York, Oppression and Intolerance, Pimped, Pimping, Rape, Rastas, Reconstruction, Released From Mental and Spiritual Bondage, Self-Worth, Sex, Sex Crimes, Sex Slaves, Shaniya, Shaniya Davis, Shaniya Nicole Davis, Slavery, Wage Slavery, Zombified
Those New Breast Cancer Guidelines: Keep Doing What YOU Are Doing Right
• November 18, 2009 • Comments Off on Those New Breast Cancer Guidelines: Keep Doing What YOU Are Doing RightPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Cancer, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Education, Health, Health Care/The Public Option, Memoir, Native Americans/First Nations, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, Women
Tags: "Dr. Oz", "The Doctors", Advocate, African American Women, Bedside Manner, Black Women, Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Guidelines 2009, Canada, Cancer, Capitol Square, Family History, Healing, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Reform, Hippocratic Oath, Hormone Replacement Therapy, HRT, Mammogram, Mammograms, Mammography, Medical Rationing, Memoir, Niacin, Policosanol, Pumpkin Oil, Radiation Exposure, Self-Examination, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tumors, Vitamin D, Wisconsin
Anjanette Albert Speaks
• October 4, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Anjanette Albert, Black People, Class, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Education, Gang Violence, History, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, People of Color, Race, Television, Who I Am, Women
Tags: Anjanette Albert, Beating Death, Beatings, Chicago, Chicago IL, Computer, Death, Derrion Albert, Eunice Kathleen Waymon, Gang Violence, Gangs, Louis Armstrong, Mary Kate Waymon, Memoir, Methodist, Mrs. Jackson, Murder, Nina Simone, Piano, Piano Lessons, Roseland, Study, Who I Am
Saturday Night Music, May 30 – Santana, “No One to Depend On”-
• May 30, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Chicanos/Latinos, Memoir, Music, People of Color, Santana
Tags: Chepito Areas, Columbia Records, David Brown, East Side San Jose, Gregg Rolie, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Journey, Linda Tillery, Memoir, Mexican American, Neal Schon, San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Santana, Santana II, Tower of Power Horn Section
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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 on 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 HuluPosted 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