http://blogs.vibe.com/man/ en Copyright 2009 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:04:05 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} At the height of Motown's... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/03/the-soul-sister-chronicles-valerie-simpson-the-womens-history-month-mix/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/03/the-soul-sister-chronicles-valerie-simpson-the-womens-history-month-mix/ Ellis Haizlip Exposed Motown Nick Ashford Soul! Valerie Simpson Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:04:05 -0500 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} In celebration of Black History Month, Thirteen/WNET... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/black-public/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/black-public/ Broadcasting While Black Children's Television Workshop Ellis Haizlip Felipe Luciano Gayle Wald Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant NPR Roxie Rocker Say Brother Soul! WNET Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:15:09 -0500 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} The recent accusations, regarding Chris... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/rhythm-and-beatdown-some-thoughts-on-domestic-violence/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/rhythm-and-beatdown-some-thoughts-on-domestic-violence/ Chris Brown Domsetic Violence Rihanna Fenty Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:21:26 -0500 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} When Berry Gordy founded Motown Records 50... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/motowns-forgotten-revolution/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/motowns-forgotten-revolution/ 25 Years Later Berry Gordy Blaze Motown Records The Black Power Movement The Civil Rights Movement Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:58:46 -0500 Jennifer Hudson's rather spectacular performance of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the 2009 Super Bowl, immediately drew comparisons of Whitney's Houston's performance in 1991. Indeed Houston's performance is etched as a quintessential cultural moment in recent American history and a highlight of Houston's once charmed career. But few seem... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/a-starspangled-debate/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/02/a-starspangled-debate/ James Weldon Johnson Jennifer Hudson Jose Feliciano Kim Weston Marvin Gaye Persian Gulf War Rene Marie The National Anthem Whitney Houston Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:50:23 -0500 Dear Daughters, Your president is Black. I never thought that I'd ever say those words to you; in fact I can't say that I even imagined what it would be like to say those words to you. For so many of us, a Black president was just some far... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/01/a-letter-to-my-daughters-your-president-is-black/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/01/a-letter-to-my-daughters-your-president-is-black/ Black President Daughters Inauguration Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:36:34 -0500 In a cultural and commercial world largely defined by the myopic pretensions of a largely invisible white male elite (the more visible they are, the less powerful they be), the contours of blackness--that amorphous, stasis-bending "giant" that is always in the room--can rarely be deciphered. In her book, The... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/01/elizabeth-alexanders-innervision/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2009/01/elizabeth-alexanders-innervision/ Barack Obama Elizabeth Alexander Greywolf Press Inauguration Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:12:09 -0500 Marvin Sapp--"Never Would Have Made It" (from Thirsty)--with 24-hour Gospel stations populating the FM airwaves, Yolanda Adams hosting a very popular morning drive-time show for a Radio One station near you, and the Black Church's "gospel of prosperity" catching the attention of advertisers, Marvin Sapp's breakthrough hit "Never Would... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/critical-noir-the-2008-playlist/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/critical-noir-the-2008-playlist/ Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:53:38 -0500 Cadillac Records, the new film about the rise of the Chess record label, its co-founder Leonard Chess and the label's signature act Muddy Waters, takes a great many historical liberties. Written out of this fictional account of the birth of Chicago Blues are Leonard Chess's brother Phil and a... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/never-see-a-man-cry/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/never-see-a-man-cry/ Beyonce Knowles Cadillac Records Columbus Short Darnell Martin Etta James Howlin' Wolf Jeffrey Wright Leonard Chess Lil Wayne Little Walter Muddy Waters Umar Bin Hassan Willie Dixon Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:22:29 -0500 Like its predecessor Black Entertainment Television's, TV-One, the cable television networked owned by the Radio-One family, attempted to strike the right balance in terms of syndicated reruns and original series. TV-One, perhaps benefiting from BET's longtime decision to abandon middle-age audiences, has proved successful in at least locating a... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/tvones-unsung-strikes-the-right-chord/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/12/tvones-unsung-strikes-the-right-chord/ Debarge Donny Hathaway Phyllis Hyman The Clark Sisters TV-One Unsung Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:56:01 -0500 At the crux of Erin Aubrey Kaplan's humorous and cute Salon.com essay, "First Lady Got Back," is the simple admission that Michelle Obama--and by extension the First Family Obama--represent a "realness" that hasn't existed in Washington political circles in some time. Indeed in a society in which the notion... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/11/is-michelle-obamas-ass-off-limits/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/11/is-michelle-obamas-ass-off-limits/ Erin Aubrey Kaplan Hottentot Venus Michelle Obama Propel Water Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:00:24 -0500 "This is My Country"--The Impressions "People in Me"--Abbey Lincoln "We Are One"--Frankie Beverly and Maze "Put Your Hands Together"--The O'Jays "Touch the Sky"--Kanye West "Rock the Casbah"--The Clash "Sun Moon Child"--Imani Uzuri "The Message"--Cymande "Voices Inside (Everything is Everything)"--Donny Hathaway "Walk Tall"--Julian Cannonball Adderley "(For God's Sake) Give More... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/11/obama-obama-the-justpast-1100pm-playlist/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/11/obama-obama-the-justpast-1100pm-playlist/ Obama Victory Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:08:50 -0500 LaBelle, the groundbreaking 1970s trio comprised of Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, and Patti Labelle, literally had to be imagined. In earlier iterations as the Bluebelles and Patty Labelle & the Bluebells, the group had a solid following on the chitlin' circuit in the late 1960s. In an era that... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/labelles-back-to-nowsoundtrack-for-an-historic-presidential-ticket/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/labelles-back-to-nowsoundtrack-for-an-historic-presidential-ticket/ Cole Porter Cynthia McKinney LaBelle Rosa Clemente Rosa Parks Vicki Wickham Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:15:29 -0500 There are two recordings, both from the early-1970s, that perfectly capture the significance of Levi Stubbs, the long-time lead singer of The Four Tops who died on October 17th. "Keeper of the Castle" was the first single and title track of the Four Tops' debut recording on the ABC... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/man-enough-remembering-levi-stubbs/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/man-enough-remembering-levi-stubbs/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:41:36 -0500 "That black men who display hypermasculine characteristics fetishize--that is, simultaneously love and loathe--those considered less masculine or, to be explicit, that niggas covet faggots has been unmasked in insightful criticism. That faggots desire to be niggas has occasioned less critique..."--Vershawn Ashanti Young, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and... http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/the-thugs-and-the-candidate-musings-on-black-masculinity/ http://blogs.vibe.com/man/2008/10/the-thugs-and-the-candidate-musings-on-black-masculinity/ Barack Obama black masculinity Byron Hurt Curtis Jackson Vershawn Ashanti Young Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:05:51 -0500