May 24, 2013

Tuesday Evening Thread: Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine…And Neither is Your Civil Rights Movement

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by sagittarius I am going to stir the funky and murky waters surrounding this Jason Collins debacle. I am going to take it ALL the way there. GN has been the canary in the coal mine for nearly a year about the attempted usurpation of Black folks … [Read more...]

LIVE STREAM: President Obama Speaks at the Unveiling of a Statue of Rosa Parks (UPDATED)

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Tuesday Afternoon Thread: The Man Who Helped Save Dr. King’s Life

Dr. John Cordice and his wife Marguerite. Dr. Cordice performed life-saving surgery in 1958 on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after the civil rights leader was stabbed in the chest in Harlem. (Tracie Hunte)

From WNYC News: Honoring the Man Who Helped Save Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life Thursday, September 27, 2012 By Tracie Hunte Fifty-four years ago this month, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Harlem signing copies of his book, … [Read more...]

Saturday Open Thread: We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite

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We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite is a jazz album released on Candid Records in 1960. It contains a suite which Max Roach and lyricist Oscar Brown had begun to develop in 1959 with a view to its performance in 1963 on the centennial of the … [Read more...]

Friday Open Thread: Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins

NC A&T students Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson and Mark Martin stage a sit-in at Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, NC on Feb. 2, 1960 (Photo: The Faculty Lounge)

    GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! HAPPY FRIDAY! This concludes our look at the Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins discussion featuring Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Leverne McCummins. PART VI: PART VII: … [Read more...]

Thursday Open Thread: Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins

Woolworth sit-in, Jackson, MS. May 28, 1963

  GOOD MORNING P.O.U.! We continue our look at the Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins discussion featuring Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Leverne McCummins. PART V: … [Read more...]

Wednesday Open Thread: Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins

On Aug. 19,1958 Clara Luper and thirteen members of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council stage sit-in at whites-only lunch counter at the Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City (Courtesy The Oklahoma Publishing Company, copyright 1958)

HAPPY HUMPDAY P.O.U.! We continue our look at the Black Muslims vs. The Sit-Ins discussion featuring Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Leverne McCummins. In this segment, Malcolm X mentions "the stoning of Rockwell" in Boston. He's referring to an … [Read more...]