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Leith Mullings, Cornel West, and Gary Younge Discussing Manning Marable’s “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention”

• June 15, 2011 • Comments Off

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

Peter Fernandez, the English Voice of the Original Speed Racer and His Brother Racer X, Passes

• July 15, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Acting, Anime Cartoons, Cancer, Celebrities/Royals, Children's Shows, Class, Cultural History, Fiction Writing, Film, Japan, Memoir, Sports, Television, Television Series, The Rest of the World
Tags: "Astro Boy", "City Across the River", "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Mr. District Attorney", "Speed Racer", Actor, Anime, Broadway, Cartoon, Channel 44, Children, Chim-Chim, Corinne Orr, Director, Drama, Growing Up, Hollywood, Japan, Japanese, KBHK TV, NBC, Peter Fernandez, Pops Racer, Pulp Fiction, Radio, Rex Racer, San Francisco, Sprytle, The Galaxy Rangers, The Seventies, The Sixties, Trixie, Voice, Voice Actor, Voice Overs, Voices, Writer

The Grandchildren of Lena Horne

• May 12, 2010 • 14 Comments

Posted 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

Coco at Google Hdqtrs: Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter, May 5

• May 11, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Television
Tags: Andy Richter, California, Coco, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Writer, Conan O'Brien, Creativity, Google, Jay Leno, Northern California, Stand-Up Comedian, The Tonight Show, Writer, You Tube

Until May 1, Watch the Documentary “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun”

• April 24, 2010 • Comments Off

Posted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Race, Sexuality, Womanism, Women, Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: African Americans, Anthropologist, Biography, Black Woman, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Cultural History, Documentary, Folklorist, Growing Up, Jump at the Sun", Literature, Novelist, Scholar, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Black Woman, Southern, Womanist, Writer, Zora Neale Hurston

I’ll Be Back Tonight…

• March 31, 2010 • 2 Comments

Posted in Who I Am
Tags: Common Sense, Deadlines, Fellowships, Novels, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Work to Do, Writer, Writing

Mitrice Richardson: Proof That She Was Having a “Severe” Mental Breakdown at the Time of Her Arrest at Geoffrey’s Restaurant

• December 15, 2009 • 9 Comments

Posted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Jasmyne Cannick, Love, Memoir, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Race, Rep. Maxine Waters, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Women
Tags: "Nut up or shut up", "People Magazine", "The Los Angeles Times", "The Malibu Surfside News", African Americans, Arrogant, Bipolar Disorder, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Compassion, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Constables on Patrol, Crazy, Delusions, Depression, Detective Steven Eguchi, Diaries, Disinterest, Geoffrey's, Geoffrey's Restaurant, Hallucinations, Homophobia, Jaycee Dugard, Journals, Lack of Common Sense, LAPD, Laxity, Lesbian, Lesbians, LGBT, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Mania, Mental Health, Mental Health Professionals, Michael Richardson, Mitrice, Mitrice Richardson, Notebooks, Odd, Psychologists, Racism, Rapid Cycling, Representative Maxine Waters, Self-Worth, Sheriff's Deputies, Steve Whitmore, Suicide, The Los Angeles Police Department, Writer, Writing

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