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The Coolout Corner
Feel It In The Air – Beanie Siegel I Can’t Stand The Rain – Ann Peebles Juicy Fruit – Mtume This Woman’s Work – Maxwell Rainy Night In Georgia – Conway Twitty and Sam Moore Liberian Girl – Michael Jackson Charlene – Anthony Hamilton Get Here – Oleta Adams Fast Car – Tracy Chapman Dilated…
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Oprah Hits Back on Domestic Violence
Kudos to Oprah Winfrey. Too many other celebrities have cowered away from stating the obvious: Chris Brown is a batterer and none of this shit is funny. (Kate Harding at SALON has a nice piece on black celebs’ soft-shoe routine in particular.) So now Oprah’s planning a whole show on domestic violence, hopefully stoking a…
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The Coolout Corner
Young, Gifted, and Black – Donny Hathaway I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt Roots Rock Reggae – Bob Marley & The Wailers The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel Castles Made of Sand – Jimi Hendrix I Keep Forgetting – Michael McDonald Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley Family Reunion – The O’Jays…
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UrbanExpose.com: Looking Back
Back in the day, UrbanExpose.com was running things with the inside dope on Black media and this joint offers an informative interveiw and retrospective. Writing as Crispus Attucks, hacker-turned-media maniac John Lee aired folks out like it was nothing at all, and the comments section was no holds barred, like the Wild Bunch, times ten.…
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The Real Deal on The New Deal
Join the washingtonpost.com Live Online discussion on THE REAL DEAL ON THE NEW DEAL with The Root’s Michael Dawson. ***** It is often forgotten that, for all of its benefits, the New Deal reinforced structural black economic disadvantage in many ways. It is certainly true that the Work Projects Administration (WPA) put many blacks to work,…
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The A-Word Reclaimed
The word “Arab” is used way too liberally in the American vernacular. Since 9/11 and the advent of our six-year war, the term has become a mutilated mainstay in public debate—a common appropriation, the de facto cultural label for all things Islamic, terrorist-related or alien. During the last presidential election John McCain supporters used the…
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Googling ‘The Wire’
I can hear ringing in my ears. Red tops! Red tops! Got that WMD! This constant feeling of emptiness and willingness to do anything to get a fix. Wait. Am I delirious? This must be what withdrawal feels like. All this coming from someone who just finished watching The Wire DVD box set. I can…
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Right Back Where I Started
Close your eyes and imagine the East Coast/West Coast beef of the ‘90s. There, you’ve just met my parents. Want to stop by for Thanksgiving? I met the idea of moving back home with about as much as excitement as I did returning to the dentist that ripped out of my wisdom teeth without Novocain.…
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A Bridge This Far
SELMA—Forty four years later, the 44th president of the United States is black. Things do change. From behind the gates of the Alabama governor’s mansion in 1965, Peggy Wallace watched as marchers made their way to the state capitol in a stand for voting rights. Her father, then Gov. George C. Wallace, led his state…