Talk To Me
A Review
In Theatres: July 13th, 2007
Drama
Rating: R
Kasi Lemmons (dir.)
Don Cheadle
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Taraji P. Henson
Cedric The Entertainer
Martin Sheen
Years ago I read somewhere that the ultimate measure of a story is whether it raises more questions than it answers. This isn’t to say that in order to be deemed worthy a story should leave its [...]
Entries from June 2007
June 28, 2007
Talk To Me: A Review
June 22, 2007
A History of Conflict: Entry #5
Nas, Jay-Z and the ties that bind them to African-American Intellectual History
Part II
Note: If you have not been following this series you may want to begin with Entry #1
June 20, 2007
A History of Conflict: Entry #4
Nas, Jay-Z and the Ties that Bind them to African-American History: Part I
Note: If you have not been following the History of Conflict series the segment below may be confusing.
June 13, 2007
The Good American
The Good American
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
By Arnold Rampersad
Biographies are usually hit or miss. So much depends not on the life the subject led, but on how the storyteller presents it, which, of course, depends on how intimately he or she has lived with the subject, which, ultimately, depends on how much of a paper trail the [...]
June 11, 2007
Beat of a Different Drum
Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life
By Dax-Devlon Ross
Praise for Beat of a Different Drum
“In a nation that still struggles with its racial morass with all the deftness of a drunk in a glass house, this book is a fresh, hot cup [...]
June 11, 2007
A Staircase of Words
STAIRCASE OF WORDS, VOL ONE: ESSAYS
By Derek Beres & Dax-Devlon Ross
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In his introduction to his latest book of essays, Another Day on the Front, Ishmael Reed compares essay writing to sparring in a gym all day. I couldn’t agree more. Essays are the writer’s calisthenics. They’re not as ‘glamorous’ as novels, as [...]
June 11, 2007
The Underdog’s Manifesto
The Underdog’s Manifesto
A Guerrilla’s Artist’s Path to Independence
By Creature w/Dax-Devlon Ross
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Part memoir, part survival manual, The Underdog’s Manifesto isn’t just one artist’s story — it’s every artist’s story. It’s our laughter in the face of disbelief; our resistance of corporate domination and social apathy; our commitment to crafting something original despite [...]
June 11, 2007
Powell Meets with Obama: Let the Speculation Begin
Before there was Barack Obama there was Colin Powell. With the publication of his autobiography, My American Journey, in 1995, he cemented his status as a national hero of “Olympian” stature. Wherever General Powell traveled, droves of fans came out to support him, and eventually urge him to run for President of the United States. [...]
June 7, 2007
Obama: The Media’s New All-Purpose, All-Terrain Whipping Boy?
A week ago Senator Obama was criticized by the liberal press for not being aggressive enough in his health care plan. Articles and editorials in the New York Times, The New Republic and The American Spectator (see Searching for Obama for more) all openly opined that his plan reflected his character, that his failure to [...]
June 1, 2007
Searching for Obama: Connecting the Dots between the Man and His (Health Care) Plan
Barack Obama’s health care plan has been under heavy scrutiny since it was released this past Tuesday. Journalists, health care gurus and political bloggers alike have all thrown their two cents into the fray, offering a variety of thoughtful observations on the matter. Although there will certainly be more on the horizon, two stood out [...]
