Archives for April 2007
Kenya Loves Kenny
Published on 8 Apr 2007 at 3:46 am.
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Filed under black culture, entertainment, music.
Noted without comment: a fascinating NPR piece on the popularity of American country music in Kenya, of all places. Definitely worth checking out.
Whoa.
Published on 5 Apr 2007 at 8:27 pm.
6 Comments.
Filed under black image, history.
Before a few minutes ago, I suppose I lazily held the belief that creative anachronism was, well, a fairly lily-white pastime (and coming from a guy who loves indie rock music, that’s saying a lot). Then I surfed over to the New York Times website and saw this front and center on the main page:
Colonial […]
Coach Eddie Robinson (1919-2007)
Published on 5 Apr 2007 at 11:24 am.
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Filed under sports.
Whether you are the most die-hard of college sports fans, a historian of civil rights, or a pushover for heartwarming stories of character and commitment, the life of Eddie Robinson is a story for you. He is was a simple man who has weaved an intricate influence through American and African-American history. He died yesterday. […]
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Keepin’ It Fake
Published on 3 Apr 2007 at 10:52 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under black culture, black image.
What does the term “ghetto,” used as an adjective, mean to you? In her recently-released book Ghettonation, journalist Cora Daniels defines it as a catch-all for all behaviors irresponsible, crass, impulsive, and self-destructive. In his Washington Post review thereof, Spelman professor William Jelani Cobb agrees with Daniels’ overarching point that certain elements of black culture […]
How do we speak about Zimbabwe?
Published on 2 Apr 2007 at 6:27 am.
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Filed under news/politics, diaspora, radical politics, history, collective action.
****Above is a picture from I took at the Human Rights Day March in Johannesburg on March 21, 2007.****
EDIT: on april 3rd, 2007, in johannesburg, south africa there was a zimbabwe solidarity march to the zimbabwean consulate. check my photos here.
Zimbabwe has made headlines recently following the of Zimbabwean police’s killing of Gift Tandere, […]
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Reparations Legislation Passed!
Published on 1 Apr 2007 at 4:50 pm.
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Filed under radical politics, collective action.
April fools. There is no reparations legislation, as far as I know. However, with apologies for slavery from Virginia (and refusals to apologize from Georgia) and in light of the recent commemoration of the English abolition of the trans-atlantic slave trade, demands for reparations have resurfaced within the Black community. This resurgence raises many questions: […]
