• July 9, 2013 •
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Posted in Acting, African American History, Black Actors and Actresses, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Film, Health, History, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Love, Miles Davis, Music, Ray Charles, Stroke, Weather Report
Tags: "Mercy Mercy Mercy", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Buckinghams, Cannonball Adderley, Club DeLisa, Electric Piano, Fusion, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Joe Zawinul, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, Julian Edwin Adderley, Mercy, Miles Davis, New York, Ray Charles, Roy McCurdy, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Wayne Shorter, Wurlitzer Electric Piano
• June 18, 2013 •
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Posted in Art, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Health, Joni Mitchell, Joni Mitchell, Love, Music, Race, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Free Man in Paris", African Americans, Alanis Morissette, Album Covers, Ambrose Akinmusire, Art, Artist, Big Sleep, Blacks, Brian Blade, Canada, Canadians, Chuck Mitchell, Don Alias, Folk Music, Growing Up, Humphrey Bogart, Jann Wenner, Jian Ghomeshi, Joni, Joni Mitchell, Los Angeles, Luminato, Mark Gaillard, Marvin Gaye, Residents, Roberta Anderson, Slim Gaillard, The Seventies, The Sixties
• March 18, 2013 •
Comments Off on The Ancestors Welcome Bobby Smith, 76, Lead Singer of The Spinners
Posted in African American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, The Spinners
Tags: African Americans, Aretha Franklin, Atlantic Records, Berry Gordy, Blacks, Bobbie Smith, Bobby Smith, Cancer, Detroit, Detroit MI, Ferndale MI, G.C. Cameron, Growing Up, Henry Fambrough, Lead Singer, Lung Cancer, Motown, Oldies, Orlando FL, Pervis Jackson, Philippé Wynne, Smith, Soul Train Music Cruise, Spinner, Stevie Wonder, The Motor City, The Seventies, The Sixties, Thom Bell
• February 6, 2013 •
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Posted in African American History, Black Expatriates, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Eartha Kitt, Education, Love, People of Color, Race, Television, Women
Tags: "Batman", "Family Guy", Adam West, Bluewater Production, Catsuit, Catwoman, Comic Books, Comics, ComiXology, Dirk Benedict, Eartha Kitt, Emperor's New School, Julie Newmar, Marc B. Shapiro, New York Times, Orson Welles, Pop Culture, The Sixties, Yzma
• January 9, 2013 •
Comments Off on In a Blink of an Eye: It’s Been Forty-Five Years Since Otis Redding’s “(Sitting On) The Dock of The Bay” Was Recorded
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Love, Otis Redding, Suicide, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Wisconsin
Tags: "(Sitting On} The Dock of the Bay", 45th Anniversary, African Americans, Anniversary, Bay, Blacks, Death, Dock of the Bay, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Eric Clapton, Fillmore, Growing Up, Jimi Hendrix, Lake Monona, Madison, Madison WI, Monterey Pop Festival, Otis, Otis Redding, San Francisco, Steve Cropper, Summer of Love, The Bar Kays, The Mar-Kays, The Sixties, United States, Wisconsin
• September 9, 2012 •
Comments Off on Some Sunday Love: “Stand!” Sly and the Family Stone, 1969
Posted in American History, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Love, Music, Obama Administration, People of Color, Sexuality, Sly and The Family Stone, Spirituality, Stevie Wonder, Television, The Economy, Women
Tags: "Fulfillingness First Finale", "I Want to Take You Higher", American Politics, Cynthia Robinson, Everyday People, Gospel, Gospel Extension, Gospel Music, Jerry Martini, Love, Politics, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Simple Song, Sly, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly Stone, Standing Up, Struggle, The 2012 Presidential Campaign, The Democratic National Convention 2012, The Democratic Party, The Sixties, United States
• September 2, 2012 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, September 1, 2012: “Best of My Love,” The Emotions, Live at Sinbad’s Summer Jam, 1998
Posted 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
• August 12, 2012 •
Comments Off on Some Sunday Love: The Friends of Distinction, “Going in Circles,” 1969
Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, Music Videos, Public Television, Race, Religion, Television, Television Series, The Friends of Distinction, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African Americans, Arts, Barbara Jean Love, Blacks, Butler, California, Charles Manson, Ed Sullivan Show, Fifth Dimension, Floyd Butler, Friends of Distinction, Grazing in the Grass, Harry Elston, Hugh Masekela, Isaac Hayes, Jessica Cleaves, Jim Brown, LGBT, Manson Family, Music, Music Videos, Satanic Bible, Stonewall Riots, Television, The Sixties, United States
• July 22, 2012 •
Comments Off on Some Sunday Love: Hazel Scott with a Medley of Gershwin and “Taking a Chance on Love”
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Education, Fashion, Film, Love, Music, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Adam Clayton Powell, African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, Cafe Society, Diahann Carroll, Eartha Kitt, France, Growing Up, Hazel Scott, Lena Horne, Leslie Uggams, Love, Mike Douglas Show, People, Rhapsody in Blue, The Great American Songbook, The Sixties, United States
• July 7, 2012 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, July 7, 2012: “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” Tears for Fears, 1989
Posted in Class, European History, Love, Music, Tears for Fears, The Economy, United Kingdom, Womanism, Women, World History
Tags: "Songs from the Big Chair", Curt Smith, George Martin, Margaret Thatcher, Oldies, Oleta Adams, Roland Orzabal, Seeds of Love, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Tears for Fears, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Sixties, United States, Woman in Chains
• March 10, 2012 •
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Posted in African American History, Alice Walker, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Fiction Writing, Film, Love, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Alice Walker, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, British Film Institute, Danny Glover, Film Documentary, LGBT, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Love, March 2012, Movies, Pratibha Parmar, Racism, Rebecca, Rebecca Walker, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Walker
• February 21, 2012 •
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Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Diabetes, Documentary, Education, Film, Joe Frazier, Love, Memoir, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Sports, Stroke, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Philippines, Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Who I Am
Tags: "Joe Frazier: When The Smoke Clears", "The New York Daily News", African Americans, Blacks, Burma Shave, Documentary, Film Documentary, Frazier, George Foreman, Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, Great White Hype, Growing Up, Joe Frazier, Marvis Frazier, Mike Todd, Muhammad Ali, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Smokin' Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, Sports, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Thrilla in Manila, United States
• February 11, 2012 •
Comments Off on Saturday Night Music, February 11, 2012: “You Met Your Match,” Stevie Wonder, 1968
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Cultural History, Lula Mae Hardaway, Music, Sexuality, Stevie Wonder, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "For Once in My Life", "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day.", "You Met Your Match", African Americans, Black Women, Blacks, California, Children, Funk Brother, Grammy, Grammy Award, Growing Up, James Jamerson, Love, Lula Mae Hardaway, Motown, Motown Records, Sex, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, The Seventies, The Sixties
• February 10, 2012 •
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Posted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Angela Davis, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Discrimination, Documentaries, Documentary, Education, Film, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Public Television, Race, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement, Women
Tags: "The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975", African Americans, Angela Davis, Ann Dunham, Barack Obama, Black Militancy, Black Panther, Black Power, Black Women, Blacks, California, COINTELPRO, Eldridge Cleaver, Film, Film Documentary, Growing Up, Huey P. Newton, Independent Lens, Prison Ethos, Prisons, Racism, Stokely Carmichael, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Wisconsin Channel, United States, Vietnam War, Violence, WPT.org
• January 16, 2012 •
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Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Holidays, Labor History, Labor Relations, Love, People of Color, Preachers/Ministers, Protestant Denominations, Race, The Economy
Tags: African Americans, Albany GA, Atlanta, Blacks, Coretta Scott King, Drum Major, King, King Memorial, Madison WI, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Racism, Reverend C.T. Vivian, Reverend Joseh Lowery, Sphinx, The Albany Movement, The Human Spirit, The Overture Center for the Arts, The Poor People's Campaign, The Sixties, TravelPod, Union, Unionizing, United States, Washington, Washington Post, Wisconsin
• 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
• December 23, 2011 •
Comments Off on Christmas Songs: The Ramsey Lewis Trio, “Egg Nog,” 1964
Posted in Black People, France, Music, Ramsey Lewis, The Netherlands/Holland, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Soulful Strut", African Americans, Bangkok, Blacks, Charles Heath, Chess Records, Christmas, Dexter Gordon, Eggnog, Eldee Young, Love, Quiet Storm, Ramsey Lewis, Steve McCall, Thailand, The Seventies, The Sixties, Young-Holt Unlimited
• December 14, 2011 •
Comments Off on Christmas Songs: “All I Want Is You This Christmas,” ‘N Sync, 1998
Posted in Germany, Holidays, Love, Music, Women
Tags: "All I Want Is You This Christmas", 'N Sync, Boy Bands, Boy Groups, Chris Kirkpatrick, Christmas, Co-Founder, Counter-Tenor, Geezers, Growing Up, iTunes, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, Lance Bass, Mariah Carey, Nigels11, NSYNC, Orlando FL, The 2000s, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, Women, Young Women
• December 5, 2011 •
Comments Off on Christmas Songs: Stevie Wonder, “(That’s) What Christmas Means To Me (My Love)” 1967
Posted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Music, Stevie Wonder, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: "Someday at Christmas", "What Christmas Means to Me", African Americans, Anna Gordy, Anna Gordy Gaye, Benny Benjamin, Blacks, Detroit MI, Funk Brother, Genius, Growing Up, Henry Cosby, James Jamerson, Jazz Musicians, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Session Musicians, Stevie, Stevie Wonder, Stevland Hardaway Judkins, Tamla, The Funk Brothers, The Motown Sound, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States
• October 7, 2011 •
Comments Off on Meanwhile, Back in Madison, WI: The Murder of R Place on Park
Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Discrimination, Drug Culture/Industry, Gang Violence, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Who I Am, Wisconsin
Tags: African Americans, ALRC, Annie Weatherby-Flowers, Blacks, Business, California, City Council, Constables on Patrol, Crime, Derrell Connor, Drugs, Fillmore District San Francisco, Funk, Gangbangers, Ignoble Wray, Improvisation, Jazz, Louisiana, Madison, Madison City Council, Madison WI, Madison Wisconsin, Madisonians, New Orleans, Noble Wray, R Place on Park, Racism, Rick Flowers, San Francisco, Shootings, Small Businessman, Soul Music, The Madison Police Department, The Sixties, Wisconsin
• August 24, 2011 •
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Posted in Ashford and Simpson, Black People, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Religion, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Asia Ashford, Associated Press, Baptists, Berry Gordy, Bryant Park, Cancer, Dance, Dancer, Facebook, Gospel, Marvin Gaye, Motown, New York City, New York Times, Nickolas Ashford, Nicole Ashford, Park Benches, Pop Music, R&B, Ray Charles, Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand), Scepter Records, Singers, Songwriters, Soul Music, Tammi Terrell, The Black Church, The Seventies, The Sixties, The Sugar Bar, Theatre District, Throat Cancer, Twitter, Valerie Simpson, White Rock Baptist Church, Whitney Houston, Your Precious Love
• August 1, 2011 •
Comments Off on The Ancestors Welcome Singer-Songwriter Eugene ‘Gene’ McDaniels, 76, Who Wrote “A 100 Lbs. of Clay,” “Feel Like Making Love” and “Compared to What?”
Posted in Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Eugene McDaniels, Love, Music, Protestant Denominations, Race, Roberta Flack, Sexuality, Stroke, The Heart, Women
Tags: "A Hundred Pounds of Clay", "Feel Like Making Love", "Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse", A Tribe Called Quest, Actor, Atlantic Records, Billboard Hot 100, Black Rock Coalition, Eddie Harris, Eugene McDaniels, Films, Four Octave Range, Frankie Vaughan, Gene McDaniels, Jackie Wilson, Les McCann, Maine, Roberta Flack, Ron Carter, Singer, Singer Songwriter, Songwriter, Spiro Agnew, Swiss Movement, The Left Rev. McD, The Seventies, The Sixties, UK Singles Chart
• June 15, 2011 •
Comments Off on Leith Mullings, Cornel West, and Gary Younge Discussing Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”
Posted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Islam/Sufism, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, The Rest of the World, Women
Tags: African American Studies, African Americans, Amiri Baraka, Bio, Biography, Black Liberation, Black Men, Black Women, Blacks, City University of New York, Columnist, Cornel West, Culture, Gary Younge, Guardian, History, Leftist, Leith, Leith Mullings, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, Manning Marable, Princeton University, Progressive, Racism, Stanley Aronowitz, The Sixties, United States, Writer
• 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
• June 2, 2011 •
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Posted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black Expatriates, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Health, Murder/Manslaughter, Race, Tanzania, The Rest of the World
Tags: Africa, Amnesty International, Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, COINTELPRO, Death, Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt, Elmer Pratt, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Frame-Up, Geronimo ji-Jaga Pratt, Geronimo Pratt, Johnnie Cochran, Los Angeles, Louisiana Born, Malaria, Murder Frame-Up, Pratt, Race, Stuart Hanlon, Tanzania, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The Sixties, United States, Village, Wrongfully Accused
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