tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155344012024-03-07T01:07:58.141-08:00Celebrations, kudos and props for cultural and artistic empowerment, visionary creativity, esthetic interventions, critical analysis, and prophetic resistance. Flames, rants and freakouts for everything else.Reggie Primhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11089944593240020511noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15534401.post-42965680471378753642009-11-15T21:48:00.000-08:002009-11-15T21:50:20.858-08:00

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This week (and next) you can hear me, along with Julie Bates of Intermedia Arts talk to Marya Morstad, host of Art Matters on KFAI radio about "Singing the Legacy of Sekou Sundiata," an event that was held at Intermedia Arts that continues the work of the late poet, performance artist, musician and educator.Click here to listen to the show.

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Ebony Bones rock some sort of clownish fashion that is wholly original. They are gaining momentum on the continent. Check them out here. The only problem I have is when she says that some middle aged 40 year old jumped on the stage...frickin' children.

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I blogged today on the Walker Art Center's blog... Excerpt: Unlike others who in print lie forever prone on a page; Sundiata rises holographically even now in his voice (listen to him on the web- linked here); ghostly returning to stand before us, nearly as gorgeous and tall as he was in life; convening and communicating in his crooner’s baritone; lulling in his clear tones – smoothing over the

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Barack Obama: 'We Need Fathers To Step Up' | Parade.comWhile I am not a father (yet) I can appreciate the significance of a Black man being "father in chief." Black fathers have taken a beating in the public imagination for quite a while, so it is refreshing to have a black father acting as a positive role model. I too had an absent father. So, I understand the void one feels because one grows

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I know I was down on Eddie a couple of posts ago for not being able to make a hit. However, he was very funny once... See below for evidence.

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For many months, I have felt a twinge of hope that the Obama administration's willingness to talk with Iran with no preset conditions could move us forward in negotiations to end their pursuit of Nuclear weapons. I, along with millions of others around the world, held our breath in anticipation of the results of a seemingly democratic election process that offered change and moderation. I thought

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Bestselling co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen talks about what got him on the path of teaching healthy eating in the inner city. He is also the author of Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine. Check his really important (and delicious) message.Y'all gonna love this: Citrus Collards with Raisins (Yum!)

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From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.comReviewed by Kate Tuttle"Nearly everyone in prison protests their innocence, but Ronald Cotton was telling the truth. Cotton was just 22 when he walked into a Burlington, N.C., police station to answer rape allegations; he spent the next 11 years seeking freedom. "Put a man in a cage with beasts and throw away the key, and it's usually not

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Imagine ThatEddie Murphy is a financial exec whose daughter (Yara Shahidi) gets lucrative stock tips from imaginary friends.The once unassailable box-office king, Eddie Murphy just can't seem to make a hit these days. The title of his new flop "Imagine That" rings ironic in light of his former success. I, for one, couldn't have imagined that the same Murphy, capable of fierce and funny stand-up

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From Frank Rich's column in the New York Times: Sunday, June 13, 2009The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers"The writer Camille Paglia, a political independent and confessed talk-radio fan, detected a shift toward paranoia in the air waves by mid-May. When “the tone darkens toward a rhetoric of purgation and annihilation,” she observed in Salon, “there is reason for alarm.” She cited a “joke” repeated

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Right-wing media and the fringe: A growing history of violence (and denial)"While right-wing media are certainly not legally culpable for any recent attacks, they are responsible for promoting a culture of fear, paranoia, and violence that is anti-government in the extreme -- a culture in which extremists, including von Brunn and Richard Poplawski, who fatally shot three Pittsburgh police

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So, it is officially fashion Saturday here at the BlackBloggah. Here's a hot little number letting you in the backstage action for the Mango Black Icons shoot from way back in Feb 09. Thanks Black Nerd Network. Yowsah!

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Ok...so I'm a little late on this too. But, it is still super hot! Watch in HD for full effect. And yes, that is Grace Jones, Alek Wek and Tyson Beckford. Damn!

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I covet this magazine: Check it out at http://www.arisemagazine.net/Big Ups for featuring designers and style makers. Anyone out there want to send me a birthday subscription?

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Nobel Prize winning economist and columnist Paul Krugman joins the chorus with warnings about the role of right-wing media in stoking the fires of hatred and extremism. "Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment."Not surprising. The question for

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