Movie of the Week:

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Book of the Week:

Caucasia by Danzy Senna

Quote of the Week:

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.
Kahlil Gibran

Event of the Week:

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic
May 9th
The Crossroads KC, 417 E 18th Street, Kansas City, MO

Event of the Week:
Flores A. Forbes, author of “Will You Die With Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party,” will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. The Hall Center for the Humanities and the KU Department of Theatre and Film are sponsoring his talk. (read more)

Quote of the Week:
“learning is for liberation, and knowledge must be turned to social benefit if we are to justify the faith placed in us by our forbrears”
Michael Eric Dyson

Book of the Week:

The Vulture
&
The Nigger Factory

by Gil Scott-Heron

Rahzel speaks about sexism in hip hop music

Brought to you by Professor Kim...

Grammy winning beatboxer Rahzel spoke with me today about the latest controversy over sexism in hip-hop. In this 18-minute interview, he rejected Don Imus' comparison of his scurrilous remarks about the Rutgers Women's basketball team to rap lyrics, but added that rappers who use terms such as "ho," have a responsibility "to clarify what they're talking about."
He also talks about how he has held true to his artistic vision despite the pressure to "come hard."
(Click here for the rest of Prof. Kim's piece)

Black Panther Party leader turned urban developer to speak April 24 at KU

LAWRENCE — An author and urban developer who was a leader in the Black Panther Party of the 1960s and ’70s will speak about his new book and the turbulence of those years at the University of Kansas.

Flores A. Forbes, author of “Will You Die With Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party,” will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. The Hall Center for the Humanities and the KU Department of Theatre and Film are sponsoring his talk. (read more)

Moment of Silence

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Thirty-three people, including the gunman, were killed on a Virginia university campus Monday in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 26 other people were injured, some of them as they leapt to safety from the windows of a classroom building. (read more)


Song of the Week:
Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway

The Color of Comfort?

Check out this article by Jim Wilkes of the Toronto Star

When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as "Nigger-brown."

She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last week from Vanaik Furniture and Mattress store on Dundas St. E.

Moore, 30, who describes herself as an African-American born and raised in New York, said it was her 7-year-old daughter who pointed out the label just after delivery men from the Mississauga furniture store left.
(Read More)

Book of the Week: Shadowboxing by Joy James

News: Hip Hop Figure Skating? (read more)

Event: Relay for Life @ the University of Kansas

Album of the Week: Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis

KU Pride Week 2007!!!

University of Kansas student group, Queers and Allies, is hosting the 2007 Pride Week. (more info)

Book of the Week: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

Quote of the Week: "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"

Event of the Week: Talib Kweli @ The Grenada (Lawrence, KS) tomorrow night!

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