March 21, 2014 at 11:05pm Toni Morrison honours Maya Angelou with the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community at the National Book Awards Photo Credit: Robin Platzer/Twin Images
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March 24, 2011 at 6:10am AND u got a PAY a SUBSTANTIAL license fee to watch this "whites-only" programming/brainwashing too Television's whites-only shows reach well beyond Midsomer Anonymous Excluding us black actors from all kinds of period dramas is wrong. We have to say enough is enough https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/23/midsomer-murders-producer-black-actors
March 24, 2012 at 1:37am HERE’S WHAT FOX NEWS WILL SAY ABOUT OBAMA’S TRAYVON MARTIN COMMENTS By Harry Cheadle So Barack Obama made some comments about Trayvon Martin that reflect the feelings of pretty much any human being with a functioning set of emotions. The quote that led every one of the dozens of short articles written about it was, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” a line that makes you realize that national leaders have personal feelings apart from politics, and that seeing someone who could have been his kid shot for no good reason probably made Obama just as angry and sad as the rest of us—or you had that response to the line if you were a normal person. If you were a capital-c Conservative pundit who appears on FOX News and bangs Obama at every opportunity out of pure malicious instinct, your eyes rolled back in your head, you started frothing at the mouth, you yelled, “THE PRESIDENT’S TALKING ABOUT RACE! LET’S GET ‘IM! GRRRRRRGHSGHHSSFSA!” and you rage-vomited a l...
"Cinderella's Stepsisters" by Toni Morrison December 17, 2012 at 12:05pm Let me begin by taking you back a little. Back before the days at college. To nursery school, probably, to a once-upon-a-time when you first heard, or read, or, I suspect, even saw "Cinderella." Because it is Cinderella that I want to talk about; because it is Cinderella who causes me a feeling of urgency. What is unsettling about that fairy tale is that it is essentially the story of a household--a world, if you please--of women gathered together and held together in order to abuse another woman. There is, of course, a rather vague absent father and a nick-of-time prince with a foot fetish. But neither has much personality. And there are the surrogate "mothers," of course (god- and step-), who contribute both to Cinderella's grief and to her release and happiness. But it is the stepsisters who interest me. How crippling it must have been for those youn...
Of course men would demean it and have to label it something ridiculous like "catfight" (since they just fight with knives n stuff and obviously war is so very manly and upstanding and beneficial for humanity as a whole) but I digress... I think it's time to revisit Dynasty all over again... and I'm sure I'll enjoy every minute of it. #80sentertainment #onthisday2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiRy1Cn4U2Q