Tag: Race

• 100 Wins

  Tonight my hometown team, the Boston Red Sox, reached 100 wins for the first time since 1946 – with 16 left to play.  It brought to mind one of my favorite books about Boston, which is Howard Bryant’s Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.  One of the most interesting things in […]

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  September 13, 2018

  Sports

  Alex Cora, Baseball, Bonafide Rojas, Boston Red Sox, Curse of the Bambino, Dan Duquette, Dan Shaughnessy, David Price, Empire’s Workshop, Greg Grandin, Howard Bryant, Manny Ramirez, Mookie Betts, Naomi Klein, Notes On The Return To The Island, Pedro Martinez, Puerto Rico, Race, Shut Out, Sports, The Yawkey Family, War Against All Puerto Ricans

• Organize 2020 and Durham’s Tipping Point

  I’m posting today to ask folks to consider supporting an Indie Go Go campaign currently heading into its final week by Organize 2020, the social justice caucus of the North Carolina Association of Educators.  As an active member of this group, I have been impressed by the commitment, vision and integrity of people involved in this […]

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  July 28, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Economics, Education, Politics

  Bryan Proffitt, Durham, Durham Association of Educators, Economics, Eddie Conway, education, Jillian Johnson, Organize2020, Politics, Race

• Dirty Harry Does Diversity.2: Indicting Invictus

  (Like the original Magnum Force, this post is a sequel to the first Dirty Harry.) Of all of Clint Eastwood’s “Sympathy for the Other” movies, Invictus was the most popular in the Land of the Liberals.  J. Edgar (gays), Million Dollar Baby (women), and Gran Torino (SE Asians) all did well but received more criticism than […]

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  March 22, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Current Events, Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History

  A.O. Scott, Africa, american empire, ANC, Barack Obama, Capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clint Eastwood, Economics, Films, IMF, Invictus, Irvin Jim, Left media, Matt Damon, Nelson Mandela, Neoliberalism, NUMSA, Pambazuka News, Patrick Bond, Paul Jay, Politics, profit margins, Race, Selma, The New York Times, The Real News Network, Washington Consensus

• Dirty Harry Does Diversity.1: Magnum Tucked In Tweed

  One of the weirder phenomena of early 21st century cinema has been the emergence of Clint Eastwood as would-be spokesman for various groups marginalized by the white male power structure his famed ’70’s character Dirty Harry once defended with a famously long phallic symbol.  Million Dollar Baby (2004) concerned itself with issues of gender and […]

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  February 18, 2015

  Dirty Harry Does Diversity, Film, History, Series of posts, Uncategorized

  ANC, Angela Y. Davis, Berkeley CA, Black Panther Party, Brezhnev, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Ed Sanders, Films, Gran Torino, Invictus, J. Edgar, J. Hoberman, Jack Kerouac, John Wayne, Magnum Force, Million Dollar Baby, Nelson Mandela, Other John Davises, Pauline Kael, People’s Park Protest, Politics, Race, Reds, Roger Ebert, Ronald Reagan, The Enforcer, The Ex, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tim Buckley, Too Many Cowboys, Warren Beatty, William F. Buckley

• Read Robin D.G. Kelley on Ferguson

  This is simply to refer folks to an excellent article about Ferguson by Robin D.G. Kelley I read on the Counterpunch website after it was posted by Imani Perry on Facebook. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/25/75039/ Please consider a subscription to Counterpunch as well as checking out Kelley’s excellent books. In musical circles, Kelley is most known for his biography […]

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  November 26, 2014

  Book Reviews, Current Events, History

  american empire, Barack Obama, Black Agenda Report, Bruce Dixon, Counterpunch, Darren Wilson, Eddie Conway, Ferguson, History, Imani Perry, KRS-One, Left media, Mike Brown, Mike Ladd, Race, Robin D.G. Kelley, The Real News Network

• The Residents and the Arctic

  I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio.  A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity.  I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say […]

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  October 27, 2014

  Book excerpts, Book Reviews, History, Record Reviews, Work In Progress

  american empire, Arctic Circle, Book Reviews, Coca-Cola, Cora Dubois, Dust to Digital, Ecuador, Edward Said, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Eric Lott, Eskimo, Folkways, Harvard University, History, Immanuel Kant, Imperial Eyes, Imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Inuit, Jadaliyaa, Jay-Z, LA, Left media, Lowland Tribes of Ecuador, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Music, Naomi Klein, Native Instruments, Omar Souleyman, Palestinian Walks, Paul Gilroy, Peabody Museum, Race, Record Reviews, Residents, Sarah Palin, Siam Mapped, Sublime Frequencies, Timbalaand, Upcoming Projects

• Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song

  Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young.  I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings. […]

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  September 20, 2014

  Music, Politics, Top 40 Over 40

  american empire, Brandon Eggleston, C.L.R. James, Folk Implosion, Gerald Horne, Haiti, Howlin’ Wolf, John Darnielle, Michael Gira, Muddy Waters, Music, Nick Cave, Race, Randall Robinson, Record Reviews, Spare Parts, Swans, The Bad Seeds, The Black Jacobins, The Counter-Revolution of 1776, The Real News Network, Top 40 Over 40, Touissant L’Ouverture, Walter Ben Michaels, William Faulkner, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire

• Sunday Paper with the BPF: Ahhh, Mindfulness

  Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore.  Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership.  But I’ve been kicking back and checking out some posts on the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) website after renewing my membership today.  Among them was a piece with a […]

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  June 29, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book excerpts, Buddhism, Economics, History, Politics, The Dharma

  Afghanistan, Alfred McCoy, american empire, Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Burma, Capitalism, chalmers johnson, Devo, Doug Henwood, Drug Policy, Economics, Eric Schmidt, Feminism, Google, IMF, Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Karl Marx, KRS-One, Laos, Neoliberalism, NPR, Peter Dale Scott, Professor Elizabeth Stanley, Race, Ronald Purser, Silicon Valley, Thailand, The Dharma, The Stone House, Time magazine, Vipassana Hawaii, Washington Consensus, Whip It, Wired magazine

• World on a Wire

  As I keep track of the unfolding struggle over the FCC’s proposed creation of a corporate “fast lane” on the internet that would regulate non-corporate media to second class status online, I’m reminded of the film World on a Wire by Rainer Fassbinder, which I watched on DVD a couple of months ago.  Despite being […]

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  May 24, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Film, History, Politics, Uncategorized

  Amanda Hess, Astrid Taylor, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, Democracy Now, Digital vs. Analog, Feminism, Films, Gravity’s Rainbow, History, Jesse Jackson, Jessica Gonzalez, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Neoliberalism, Politics, Poor Democracy, profit margins, Race, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rich Media, Robert McChesney, The Real News Network, Thomas Pynchon, World on a Wire

• Top 40 Over 40.16: Holding It Down

  One possible answer to the question I posed in my post on Reckoning with REM – How come their early portraits of Southern life never said anything about the history of racist violence and forced labor in their native Georgia, even on their album Fables of the Reconstruction / Reconstruction of the Fables? – is that […]

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  March 2, 2014

  Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  Afghanistan, american empire, Blowback, Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat, chalmers johnson, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Holding It Down, Imperialism, In What Language?, Iraq, Lynn Hill, Maurice Decaul, Mike Ladd, Minutemen, Music, Politics, Race, Record Reviews, REM, Still Life With Commentator, Top 40 Over 40, Vijay Iyer