Just wow. This one video raises enough questions around cultural appropriation and the relationship between spirituality and mainstream culture to fill a master’s thesis.
Archive | January, 2010
Max Roach b. January 10, 1924
Happy Birthday Max!
YouTube – Max Roach Combo – Driva-Man [1964].
(Props to BlackBirdPress for the heads up)
Racebending explained in 60 seconds.
There’s been a lot of back and forth about Avatar over the last few weeks but a large group of Asian activists have been beefing about it since the film was announced, and with good reason. Asian based cartoon, but where are the Asian faces in the movie?C’mon big budget mega movie studios, get with the program. It’s 2010. It’s okay to show people of color in leading roles. All of us. Really, we don’t bite and we promise not to pee on your floor.
Categories
- Black folks, tech and media. And 12 people filling the gap
- The problem with the CNN Don Lemon & Nas interview
- Celebration for Lucille Clifton
- 17 and Cops: Coming of age as a young black man
- My own personal Lovelle Mixons
Publish2 Reading List
- AOL Says New Site Was Color-Blind in Hiringwww.theroot.comShare on:
- Martha Rosler, Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-critical Art “Survive”? / Journal / e-fluxwww.e-flux.comShare on:
- Recovery Act: How Obama's Stimulus Is Changing America - TIMEwww.time.comShare on:
