The Grandchildren of Lena Horne
• May 12, 2010 • 14 CommentsPosted in Acting, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Emmys/Grammys/Oscars/Globes, Fashion, Film, Lena Horne, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, Television, Women
Tags: "Rachel Got Married", "Stormy Weather", "Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne", African Americans, Alex Weinstein, Amy Lumet, Black Women, Blacks, Bobby Cannavale, Breast Enhancement, Breastesses, Children, Cindy McCain, Civil Rights, Community Volunteer, Con Artist, Craziness, Culinary Arts, Drama, Drugs, Family, Florida, French Culinary Institute, Gail Lumet Buckley, Growing Up, Guardian, Interracial Marriage, Interracial Relationships, Jacob Cannavale, Jenny Lumet, John McCain, Latinos, Lena Horne, Lena Jones, Lena Mary Horne, Lifetime Achievement Award, London, Los Angeles CA, Louis Jordan Jones, Manhattan Country School, Multiracial, National Enquirer, Native American, Needy, New York City, Oscars, P.J. O'Rourke, Party Girl, Pastry Chef-Instructor, People of Color, Playboy, Race, Rachel Uchitel, Racism, Samadhi Jones, Sasha Weinstein, Screenwriter, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Sidney Lumet, Singer, Socialite, Sound Editor, Spitting Image, Striving, Teddy Jones, The Eighties, The French Culinary Institute, The Marines, The Nineties, The Oscars, The Seventies, The Sixties, Thomas Jones, Tony Peck, William Jones, Women of Color, Writer, Youth
The Poet Ai Joins the Ancestors
• March 24, 2010 • 4 CommentsPosted in Ai, Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Black People, Books, Class, Education, People of Color, Spirituality
Tags: "Killing Floor", "No Surrender", "Nothing But Color", African American, Ai, Ai Ogawa, American Book Award, Asian, Asian American, Buddhist, Florence Anthony, Irish, Japanese, Leon Trotsky, Lev Bronstein, Multiracial, Native American, Oklahoma State University, Poet, Poetry, Russia, The National Book Award, United States Artists Ford Fellowship, University of California Irvine Alumni, Yukio Mishima
Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby and Pokey, Dies at 88
• January 9, 2010 • Comments Off on Art Clokey, Creator of Gumby and Pokey, Dies at 88Posted in Art, Art Clokey, Children's Shows, Clay Animation, Documentaries, Film, History, Love, Memoir, Religion, Science, Television
Tags: "Black Bart", "Gumbasia", "Gumby Dharma", "Mandala", "The Adventures of Gumby", Art Clokey, Clay Animation, Clokey, ComicCon 2009, Dallas McKinnon, Davey and Goliath, Eddie Murphy, Fourth Street, Gender, Ginny Tyler, Google, Gumby, Gumbyana, Joseph Clokey, Kinesthetic Film Principles, Matt Groening, Nancy Wible, Native American, Norma McMillan, Pokey, Raceless, Robina Marchesi, Ruth Clokey, San Rafael CA, Slavko Vorkapich, Southern California, Stop Motion Clay Animation, The Eighties, The Nineties, The San Rafael Art Center, The Sixties, The Sundance Channel, You Tube, Zen Buddhism
UPDATE: Only in Mad City: Why There Are So Few Black Bars and Entertainment in Town?
• October 21, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Gentrification, History, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: African American, Antisocial Behavior, Beld Street, Black Bars, Black Businesses, Black People, Blacks, California, Chicago IL, Clientele, Crime, DJs, Drug Dealing, Drugs, Fillmore Street, Gang Violence, Gangbangers, Guns, Hallowe'en Night, Kenosha, Kevin McGettigan, Madison, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Maple Bluff, Maria Brown, Milwaukee, Native American, New Orleans, NIMBY, North Sherman Avenue, Not in My Back Yard, Park Street, Poverty, Priorities, R Place on Park, Racine, Sacramento, San Francisco, Schools, State Street, Stockton, The Capitol Times, The Madison Police Department, The Western Addition, Third Street, Tracy, WI, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, Wisconsin State Journal
The Sedona, AZ Sweat Lodge Tragedy: Why It Shouldn’t Have Happened
• October 12, 2009 • 9 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Education, Health, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, New Orleans, People of Color, Race, Religion, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: "Spiritual Warrior", Abenaki, Africa, Africans, Ancestors, Angel Valley, Anger, Arizona, Asia, Asian American, Baron Samedi, Cow Hollow, Culture, Curios, Erzulie, Eucalyptus, Fasting, François Duvalier, French Quarter, George Harrison, Haiti, Haitians, Idols, Incense, James Arthur Ray, Joseph Bruchac, La Vieux Carre, Latino American, Legba, Loko Atison, Marie Laveau, Masks, Melanesia, Micronesia, Native American, Neighborhoods, New Age, New Orleans, Nichiren Buddhism, Noe Valley, Oshun, Pine Tar, Religion, Rituals, San Francisco, Sauna, Scandinavia, Sedona, Sioux, Sweat Lodge, The French Quarter, The Voodoo Museum, Turtle Island, Union Street, United States, Voudou, Voudou Flags, Yavapai County
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