Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:00 — 9.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe Motion Picture Academy Awards – the Oscars – get a lot of media attention this time of year for recognizing the best movies, as do the Golden Raspberry Awards, the Razzies, which warn you about the worst ones. But sometimes it’s the movie STARS you have …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 45.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreOur opening song is “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” – and its history alone illustrates the difficulties of centering anything black in this white capitalist country. We’re listening to Hank Crawford and Jimmy McGriff’s version off of their 1987 album, Steppin’ Up. Dubbed in 1919 by the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 40.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | More“[Burnett] really invites us, the viewer to, not take a position, but to say, this is what it is, do you wanna do anything about it?…In the banality of oppression, the every day reality of oppression, a toll, a profoundly tragic toll, is demanded of black people.” …
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