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“The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975” Comes to Wisconsin Public Broadcasting Friday, February 10 and Saturday, February 11

• February 10, 2012 • 1 Comment

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
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Christmas Songs: Marvin Gaye, “I Want to Come Home for Christmas,” 1972

• December 21, 2011 • 1 Comment

Posted in Afghanistan, African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, Holidays, Iraq, Love, Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Obama Administration, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM)
Tags: Afghanistan, African Americans, Berry Gordy, Blacks, Charting, Christmas, Christmas in The City, Forest Hairston, Funk Brothers, Iraq, Marvin, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Motown Records, Occupation, Prisoners of War, Santa Claus, South Vietnam, The Funk Brothers, The Nineties, The Seventies, United States, Vietnam, Vietnam War

Veteran Marine Sgt. Shemar Thomas on the Occupy Wall Street Protests: “This is Our Time…to Change The Greed…in America”

• October 18, 2011 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Bailouts, Black People, Budget Cuts, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Health, Homelessness, Joblessness, Labor History, Labor Relations, Mental Health/Psychology, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Public Intellectualism, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World, The Tea Party Movement
Tags: 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Afghan War, African Americans, Anarchists, Baggers, Benefits, Blacks, Civil Liberties, Civil Servants, Common Sense, Constables on Patrol, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Current TV, Demonstrations, Dirty Hippies, Iraq, Iraq War, J. Edgar Hoover, Jobless, New York City Police Department, New York's Finest, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Poor People's Campaign, Poverty, Raw Story, Ready-TV.com, Republicans, Riverside Church, Sgt. Shemar Thomas, Single Issue Politics, The Black Middle Class, The February Uprising, The Middle Class, The Poor People's Campaign, The Tea Party, Unemployed, Union Contracts, Union Members, United States, Veterans, Vietnam War, Wages, Wall Street, War Veteran, Wisconsin, Workers, You Tube, YouTube

Christmas Songs: “Happy Xmas, War Is Over (If You Want It),” John Lennon, Yoko Ono, The Plastic Ono Band, and The Harlem Community Choir

• December 22, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Alcoholism/Drug Abuse, American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Film, Holidays, Love, Music, Music Videos, Spirituality, Television, The Beatles, The Rest of the World, Women, Yoko Ono
Tags: "Stewball", African Americans, Alcoholism, Anthony Cox, Black Women, Blacks, Child Abduction, Child Stealing, Children, Christmas, Crack, Custody, Demons, Divorce, Drama, Drug War, Drugs, Growing Up, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Harlem, Harlem Community Choir, Heroin, John Lennon, John Lennon Collection, Julian Lennon, Kyoko Cox, Lost Weekend, Love, May Pang, Memories, New York City, Parental Child Abduction, Phil Spector, Record Plant Studios, Sean Lennon, The Beatles, The Plastic Ono Band, The Record Plant, The Seventies, Union Scale, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam War, Wall of Sound, Yoko Ono

Condi Loves Torture

• April 24, 2009 • 3 Comments

Posted in American Politics, Black People, Class, Crime, History, Hurricanes, Obama Administration, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Abu Zubaydah, al Qaeda, Alberto Gonzales, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Elizabeth Cheney, Emptywheel, Eric Holder, Filipinos, George W. Bush, Jay Bybee, John Ashcroft, John Boehner, John Yoo, Keith Olbermann, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Marcy Wheeler, Philip Zelikow, Rachel Maddow, Saddam Hussein, Second World War, Spain, Spanish American War, Special Comment April 16, Steven Bradbury, The CIA, The Justice Department, Torture, Viet Cong, Vietnam War, Vietnamese, Waterboarding

MLK Assassinated 41 Years Ago Yesterday…

• April 5, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in American Politics, Black People, History, Race, Television, The Rest of the World
Tags: 1968, Anniversary, Assassination, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War

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Hoping for a Comeback in a Town With Little to Come Back To March 28, 2023
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It’s finally happening.
Prisoners Today, Neighbors Tomorrow March 25, 2023
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Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, Ethiopian nun and pianist, dies at 99 March 27, 2023
The musician, who spent nearly the last 40 years of her life living in a monastery in Jerusalem, has diedEmahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99.According to the country’s state-run news outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate, she died in Jerusalem. Guèbrou had been living at the Ethiopian Monastery there f […]
Rwanda scheme would ‘completely erode’ UK’s standing on world stage March 26, 2023
New Human Rights Watch head Tirana Hassan says UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers is ‘cheap politics’The UK’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda would “completely erode” Britain’s standing on the world stage, the new head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.Tirana Hassan, who takes over as HRW’s executive director on Monday, also said other conservativ […]
Refugees trying to reach Italy die after boats sink off coast of Tunisia March 26, 2023
Latest tragedy comes as authorities in north African country crack down on undocumented peopleAt least 29 people from sub-Saharan Africa have died while trying to reach Italy after two boats carrying them across the Mediterranean sank off the coast of Tunisia.The deaths, which occurred early on Sunday, are the latest tragedies involving people departing from […]
Hotel Rwanda’s Paul Rusesabagina released from prison March 25, 2023
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Ethiopian PM appoints TPLF official as head of Tigray interim administration March 23, 2023
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