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5 Quick Points Against Django Unchained, Because It’s Not Worth 6.
Jan. 4 | 1. Ishmael Reed is right. The first thing easily noticed is that the promotion of the film is largely false. The film does not star and is not about Black people. Jamie Foxx is at best a supporting player behind Waltz and probably also behind...
The First Annual Hate Awards Show Part 1!
Dec. 21 | Welcome to The First (and last?) Annual Super Funky Soul Power Hour- 12/21/12 Mayan Calendar-End of Community Radio-Winter Solstice-Family Radio Rapture-Tupcalapyse Now Hate Award Show! We were joined this week in studio by our illustrious TSFSPH The...
Films for Liberation: Christian Lara’s Sucre amer and the Court of History
Jul. 19 | In Los Angeles, I assume like every big city, we have in the African and Latino neighborhoods a network of independent movie distributors: “Got those DVDs, Blue-rays, what you need?” And in Los Angeles, a unionized industry town, that’s tricky. ...
New Media and Social Activism at the Manning Marable Memorial Conference
May. 1 | Herb Boyd moderated this panel on Media and Social Activism at the 2012 Manning Marable Memorial Conference at Columbia University. The panel consisted of Vicky Gholson and Jared Ball who discussed the impact of media on political organization and a...
Stand Whose Ground?
Apr. 16 | by Benjamin Woods “Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!” “If We Must Die” -Claude Mckay The Southern Poverty Law Center released its Spring 2012 Intelligence Report titled “The...
Return of the Angry White Male
Mar. 15 | From Christopher Columbus to Rush Limbaugh By Herbert Dyer, Jr. Rush Limbaugh speaks to and for the “angry white man.” He says loudly, openly and arrogantly the things that they themselves all feel, believe, know to be true about the world and especially...
Commodification of Suffering: An Ethics of Charity
Mar. 7 | While shopping at Whole Foods last week (yeah, I do that often #smirking) I came across a new Whole Foods brand coffee. It was arranged in a pyramid styled display, and the store rep., having just completed the task of assembling it, stood nearby staring...
Flawed Lens – Movie Promises to Distort Bob Marley’s Image
Mar. 1 | A new documentary about the ‘popularized‘ life of Bob Marley is set to be released in theaters (and Video On Demand) on April 20, 2012. But based on an interview with the film’s Scottish director, Kevin MacDonald, it seems the film will...
Bully At Home – Bully Abroad
Feb. 27 | Bullying seems to permeate every echelon of society. In an effort to appeal to parents, President Barack Obama took a stand against bullying—specifically cyber bullying on sites such as facebook. Kudos, Mr. President. Way to stand up for the little...
