As early as January, I knew that Michelle Obama’s bodywould be a radioactive site and catalyst for a publicdiscussion about race, class and gender. About a month ago, I was brainstorming podcast ideas and the twothat I chose were Michelle Obama and the Black female bodyand Babies Vs. Dreams.
Not more than a week later after [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Michelle Obama and The Black Female Body
Monday, March 30th, 20093.29.09 Tweets of the Week
Monday, March 30th, 2009Many of you use Twitter, some of you don’t. I like itbecause of the forced brevity, irony and nerdylunch table aspect. I share with you.
My first edition of Tweets of the Week.
Dart_AdamsThe Hip Hop industry is a lot like sausage (II). Whenyou get to see how this shit is really made you think [...]
Empress Sharhh is the Nicest Emcee Since Jay Electronica
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Mos Def Points out Doom’s Awesome Idiosyncrasies.
On the new Doom album, Born Like This, there are many guest stars,Ghost, Rae, but I had Empress Sharrh joint on repeat for the last twentyminutes. Take a listen. I’ll wait.
She had me at , “Sign away your publishing for Jordan’s and loosie?”
Say word?I feel like she made this [...]
Dirty Drawls Love
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009In mid January, a woman, a middle class, beautiful Jewishwoman shared a story with me about dating.
Among many things, she talked about dating men who drank,and drank, and drank and wondering why she continued topick these dudes.
She went on to describe what it meant to shift from repeatedlydating men that were unavailable and deciding to [...]
Is a Black Web Browser Racist?: BET x Kevin Kelly x Blackbird
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Earlier this week I mentioned to my friend S.bot that I was going to write about the fact thatmany people thought that the Black web browser,Blackbird, was racist.
A little background. Blackbird is a web browser,created and operated by 40A, Inc., a company founded by three African American entrepreneurs, Arnold Brown [...]
Boston Dynamic Big Dogs: The New World Order Lives
Friday, March 13th, 2009I was on the phone with my homie S.bot earlier. She is all things geeky. An Information Architect,she hangs out at MIT taking free workshops on nerdystuff and she likes to take notes on our conversations.
When she talks, I listen.
Today, we were talking about the new Facebook designand the rush to create a hard drive [...]
The Problem or The Solution: 100 Visionaries
Thursday, March 12th, 2009I AM SEAN BELL, black boys speak from Stacey Muhammad on Vimeo.
“I’m already scared in New York, because of all this crime on thestreet, but now theirs cops are killing us, that means are hero’sare the murderers, like the bad guys now.”
It all started with the watching people debate whetherRihanna deserved to be hit.
As a [...]
