Saturday Night Music, November 26, 2011: Experience Unlimited (EU), “Da Butt,” from Spike Lee’s “School Daze,” 1988
• November 26, 2011 • Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, November 26, 2011: Experience Unlimited (EU), “Da Butt,” from Spike Lee’s “School Daze,” 1988Posted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Comedy, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Women
Tags: "School Daze", Arts, Bill Nunn, Chuck Brown, D.C. Metro, Dance Party, EU, Experience Unlimited, Frat Party, Funk, Go-Go, Grady, Jane Toussaint, Jungle Boogie, Maryland, Rumpshaking, Spike Lee, The Roots, Washington, Washington D.C.
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)
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
The Ancestors Claim Singer/Actress/Songwriter Abbey Lincoln, 80
• August 15, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Abbey Lincoln, Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, Womanism
Tags: "Mo Better Blues", "Nothing But a Man, "The Freedom Suite", Abbey Lincoln, Acting, Activism, Actress, Africa, African Americans, Anna Marie Wooldridge, Billie Holiday, Black Nationalist, Black Women, Blacks, Braided Hair, Chicago IL, Corn Rows, Divorce, Drama, Glamour, Ivan Dixon, Jazz, Jazz Singer, Kinky Hair, Love, Marriage, Max Roach, Michael Jackson, Natural Hair, Racism, Sidney Poitier, Songwriter, Spike Lee, The 2000s, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Sixties, Thelonious Monk, Vitiligo
Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Katrina Survivor in Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke” Has Published Her First Book; Now Appears in “Treme”
• April 16, 2010 • Comments Off on Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Katrina Survivor in Spike Lee’s “When the Levees Broke” Has Published Her First Book; Now Appears in “Treme”Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Health, Hurricanes, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Spirituality, Television, Television Series, Women
Tags: "Treme", "When the Levees Broke", African Americans, Allison "Tootie" Montana, Blacks, Chief of Chiefs, Children, Constables on Patrol, Desiree, Domestic Violence, Drama, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Survivors, Jazz Musicians, Katrina, Love, Mental Health, Motherhood, Music, Musicians, New Orleans, New Orleans LA, Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Racism, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Spike Lee, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy
Highlights from Spike Lee’s Prospect Park Birthday Celebration of Michael Jackson’s Life and Music
• September 1, 2009 • 2 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Love, Music, People of Color, The Jackson 5/Michael Jackson
Tags: "Rock With You", "Thriller", African Americans, Birthday, Blacks, Brooklyn, Common Sense, D.J. Spinna, Ed Lover, Free, Madison WI, Mexico City, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, New York, Police Commissioner Kelly, Prospect Park, Reverend Al Sharpton, Spike Lee, The Eighties, The Majestic Theatre, The Nineties, The Seventies, Tracy Morgan
Update: Michael Jackson Birthday Block Party Location Change, Andy Warhol’s Michael Portrait Is Sold, and Michael’s Burial Is Postponed. Again.
• August 22, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Education, Gossip, Love, Music, The Jackson 5/Michael Jackson
Tags: 1984, Andy Warhol, Brooklyn, Burial, DJ Spinna, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Fort Greene Park, Home-Schooled, Katherine Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, Portrait, Prospect Park, Spike Lee, The Borough of Brooklyn, The Buckley School, The Eighties, The Hamptons, The Nethermead, The Seventies, The Vered Gallery, Time Magazine, Tito Jackson, TMZ.com
Spike Lee Throwing Memorial Block Party for Michael Jackson in Fort Greene, Brooklyn on His Birthday
• August 18, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Gossip, Michael Jackson, Music, Music Videos, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "Michael Jackson Day", "The Los Angeles Times", "They Don't Really Care About Us", August 29, Blanket Jackson, Brooklyn, DJ Spinna, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Fort Greene Park, Gary IN, Joe Jackson, Las Vegas, Las Vegas NV, Marshall Thompson, Michael Jackson, Michael Joseph Jackson, Murder, Spike Lee, The Chi-Lites, The Jackson Five, The Root, The Rust Belt, TMZ.com
Rice at Stanford Pulls a Nixon: When The President Tortures, It’s Not Illegal
• April 30, 2009 • 1 CommentPosted in American Politics, Black People, History, Obama Administration, The Iraq War II, Torture
Tags: "Four Little Girls", 16th Street Baptist Church, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, Cenk Uygur, Circular Logic, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Grandiosity, Henry Kissinger, President Obama, Robert Mugabe, Saudi Arabia, Spike Lee, Stanford University, The Convention Against Torture
Obamas to Vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in August?
• April 8, 2009 • Comments Off on Obamas to Vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in August?Posted in Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Oprah Winfrey, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: "The Wedding", Adam Clayton Powell, Dorothy West, East Chop, Edward Brooke, Halle Berry, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs, Spike Lee
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