According to the Afro Drumming Web site the following YouTube vid’ is a rare and old footage of African drumming, dating back to 1930. The footage is taken from documentaries, cartoons, movies and amateur footage. But the site does clarify that the soundtrack you’ll hear when watching the video of it is not the original. [...]
When I was a child I loved to watch old black and white serial movies of the Little Rascals, Shirley Temple and so on. My family was from the South. And though I can’t speak for white Southerners, black Southerners back in the day, when describing a movie that they’d seen and liked, they always [...]
From AP News: WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The NAACP’s newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned [...]
From New Press: The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and [...]
Yea, we were most definitely in yet another Hagan Daz coma when homeboy dropped this nugget. And the sad thing is, he said it back in December. Can we get any later? Anyway this morning we were as usual grazing our Google Reader when screeching on our eye brakes, we halted at this headline from [...]
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) filled in for Ed Schultz on MSNBC on Thursday. He had Christopher Barron, chairman of gay conservative Republican group GOProud on the show about Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America boycotting CPAC because of GOProud is gonna be there—they hate teh gays. We posted earlier this [...]
It must suck to be not wanted. Gay Conservative group GOProud is feeling the hate once again from fellow Repubs. This time it’s over GOProud’s participation in the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held annually in Washington DC. The event typically draws thousands of folks. And this upcoming shin-dig in February promises to be [...]
