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Tropic Blunder?
Published on 7 Mar 2008 at 1:02 pm.
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Filed under entertainment, film.
Tropic Thunder is the title of a new film, written and directed by Ben Stiller - starring, Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. (shown above). For those of you who don’t recognize Downey, he’s the character in the middle.. Uh oh. It’s the 21st Century and Black face is back in full effect!
Robert Downey […]
“Yes We Can” Hancock, Obama Surpise Critics at 50th Grammys
Published on 11 Feb 2008 at 1:57 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, entertainment.
Last night, musical genius Herbie Hancock and political juggernaut Barak Obama surprised the critics by upsetting some established competition. Hancock walked away with Album of the year for his tribute to Joni Mitchell, River: The Joni Letters, defeating Amy Winehouse and Kanye West, who combined for a total of 9 Grammy Awards. In his acceptance […]
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The Great Debate: Denzel, Violence and Scholarship
Published on 7 Dec 2007 at 12:46 pm.
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Filed under entertainment, film, black image.
I’m sure many of you contributed to the $121,716,990 box office smash, American Gangster (if not, I hope you at least got to check out the bootleg). Based on the true story of Frank Lucas, a notorious New York drug dealing kingpin in the late 1960s, American Gangster gives us yet another example of the […]
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Jena 6.. @ The BET Hip-Hop Awards!?
Published on 23 Oct 2007 at 3:10 pm.
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Filed under ridiculousness, mainstream culture, television, entertainment.
I know I’m late, the BET Hip-Hop Awards were over a week ago, but I was out of town and I just caught the re-broadcast this week. I was surprised to see two of the Jena 6 brothers (Bryant Purvis and Carwin Jones) decked out, on the red carpet like some overnight celebrities! Was anyone […]
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Hugo Chavez, Don Cheadle and the Hatian Revolution
Published on 25 Sep 2007 at 12:55 am.
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Filed under positivity, entertainment, film, diaspora, radical politics.
The Haitian Revolution is one of the most significant events in world history that nobody ever talks about. When I took history in high school, and later in college, I did study the Revolutionary era where I learned about the American and French Revolutions, but never about Haiti. This silence transcended the classroom, as Haiti […]
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Read a MotherF@#&’n Book
Published on 5 Sep 2007 at 11:15 pm.
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Filed under ridiculousness, television, entertainment, black image.
I recently recorded an interview with Malcolm Jamal Warner, in which he was singing the praises of his new favorite Hip-Hop track, Read a Book by Bomani Armah. I had heard the song a few months ago and watched the video on Youtube, but I was not aware of the controversy that it caused until […]
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Resident Evil: Africa
Published on 9 Aug 2007 at 4:08 pm.
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Filed under entertainment, black image, technology.
Embedded in this post is a trailer for the 5th installment of Capcom’s classic zombie thriller, Resident Evil. I know all my Blackademic gamers out there are getting goose-bumps over this one! As you can see in the trailer, the epic seems to be set in a rural African, or Afro-diasporic community. Problematic? Take a […]
Hip-hop’s favorite expletives
Published on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:29 am.
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Filed under women's issues/feminism, black culture, entertainment, music.
I see that Paul Butler over at Blackprof has gotten a decent amount of mileage out of his recent post on Russell Simmons’ call for the entertainment industry to voluntarily ban the n-word, “bitch,” and “ho” from their media products. Butler roundly rejects the idea, taking the standard “if you don’t like it, don’t buy […]
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The Right to Be Wrong
Published on 18 Apr 2007 at 10:21 am.
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Filed under black culture, entertainment, black image, collective action.
Between Don Imus and Duke Lacrosse, the nation at large has once again taken up the issue of the Crisis of Black America. Much discussion has been made regarding the plight of African-Americans, and what (or who) is responsible for it. The most recent target? Hip-hop.
Many prominent and influential African-Americans are leading the charge against […]
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.
