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Last Updated: Jul 2nd, 2009 - 14:02:37

Music
Never Can Say Goodbye














Michael Jackson and his brothers were the most visible promise of our post-Civil Rights generation. Yet, in the ensuing decades, Michael became a Rorschach test for American society, as well as a symbol for the self-inflicted crucifixion of the Black body.
By Esther Iverem

Jun 30, 2009, 12:18

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Cynthia McKinney aboard the aid boat, Dignity, bound for Gaza.
Israel seizes aid ship carrying activists, including Cynthia McKinney. Supreme Court delays ruling in Davis Case. Supreme Court restricts diversity efforts in hiring. California fiscal crisis intensifies. Obama issues signing statement to ignore labor, environmental provisions. House narrowly passes climate bill. Shell accused of covering up Nigeria oil spills. Hussein stoked WMD talk out of fear of Iran. And MUCH more! Check the real news right here...

Jul 2, 2009, 13:35

Music
Conjuring Michael











(The “uncut-before-u-git-the-academic-ish” mix). I will shed a tear sometime soon, not for the man who breathed his last breath today, but for that young boy that helped to define the me that I be. That young boy was special and it’s that young boy that I choose to remember today.
By Mark Anthony Neal

Jun 30, 2009, 12:26

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Supreme Court upholds Voting Rights Act. Senate apologizes for slavery. Trial of former Democratic Rep. William Jefferson begins. GOP aide in Tennessee distributes racist image of Obama. GOP operative in S.C. compares first lady to a gorilla. Obama defends public health plan but signals willingness to drop it. Poll: 72% of Americans back creation of public healthcare plan. Supreme Court denies
post-conviction DNA testing. Immigrant rights groups criticize lax sentencing in Pa. murder case. Top minutemen officials arrested on murder charges. New Nixon tapes released: Nixon urged abortion for interracial couples. DC transit officials were warned on subway cars before fatal crash. NSA database collects millions of intercepted e-mails. And MUCH more! Check the news!

Jun 24, 2009, 14:32

Music
They Wrote The Songs...
BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2009--Chicago Soul Connection:
The rich legacy of Jerry Butler’s Songwriters Workshop
By Mark Anthony Neal

Jun 17, 2009, 12:41

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Journalism in Hell
In the churning swells of the American House of Pain (prison), journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to cover his beat.

Jun 17, 2009, 13:08

Movies/TV
The Everyday Hero
On the other end of the telephone line is a man who has just hijacked a New York City subway car. Our man Denzel Washington takes the call.
Esther Iverem

Jun 12, 2009, 14:33

Diaspora
Obit: Ivan Van Sertima
Ivan Van Sertima
Ivan Van Sertima the Guyanese-born historian, who gained global renown with his scholarship showing African presence in the Americas before Columbus, has died.

Jun 12, 2009, 13:33

Music
Why Can’t I Touch You?
BLACK MUSIC MONTH 2009: Remembering Ronnie Dyson, the talented singer who died in 1990 as, at best, an afterthought and, at worst, totally forgotten. What happened?
By Mark Anthony Neal

Jun 9, 2009, 12:08

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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Shell to pay $15.5 million to settle landmark lawsuit over death of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Von Brunn charged with murder in Holocaust Museum shooting. Charges dropped in dragging death of Black man in Texas. Nation’s unemployment rate surges to 9.4%. Bankruptcy filings projected to reach 1.5M. Katrina victims to remain in trailer homes. Domestic workers fight for Bill of Rights. Obama endorses "public option" for health care reform but is fought by industry and conservatives. FBI defends use of informants inside mosques. Top UN official calls for global ban on plastic bags. And MUCH More! Check the REAL NEWS!

Jun 12, 2009, 13:17

Theater/Dance
Buppies On Stage
Characters in August Wilson's “Radio Golf” are breathing the rarefied air shared by those cynics whose success comes from knowing how to play the game.
By Carol Chastang

Jun 9, 2009, 12:33

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Obama and Racial Reality
Will the first African-American president preside over the worst socioeconomic decline of Blacks in decades?
By Dedrick Muhammad

May 28, 2009, 13:17

Visual Arts
Graffiti Across the Pond
An aspiring hip-hop artist interviews Kapi, a graffiti artist based in Spain, about the hip-hop scene where he lives.
By Donnie Williams

May 28, 2009, 11:57

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Ken Saro-Wiwa
NYC police kill off-duty Black officer. Judges, attorneys back Troy Davis appeal. Massive casualties feared in Nigerian military attack on Niger Delta villages. Shell on trial: Landmark trial set to begin over Shell’s role in 1995 execution of Nigerian human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. Obama nominates Sotomayor for Supreme Court. Burris pledged to donate money while seeking Senate appointment. Medical group calls for ban on genetically modified foods. Group: Gitmo prisoner was likely 12 when jailed. Ex-soldier gets life sentence in Iraq rape, murder case. And much more...Check the news!

May 27, 2009, 20:05


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Order Esther Iverem’s We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies. 1986-2006. An essential overview of the “New Wave” in Black cinema—a complex, often surprising perspective on art, society, and history.  More than 400 reviews, plus essays and interviews from your favorite movie critic.

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"Esther Iverem brings a voice that is deft, insightful and good-humored to the subject of African American culture."
      --Tavis Smiley

"Esther Iverem… is, hands down, one the smartest cultural critics of her generation. This wonderful romp through the last two decades of black-subject films will have you visiting your local video store on the regular.  It’s one of those book we gotta have."
      --Robin D. G. Kelley

"The work of African American filmmakers continues to out pace critiques and commentary by African American film critics. Esther Iverem closes this gap.
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