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Rap Sessions: Lupe Fiasco on Producing Leaders Not Followers

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Rap Sessions: Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama / Tea Party Era 
@ Philadelphia Art Sanctuary  

Panelists:
Bakari KitwanaAngela WoodsonRob “Biko” BakerJasiri XAlexis McGill JohnsonEvent Moderator: James Braxton Peterson

Special Guest: Lupe Fiasco [image error]

The Fresh Outlook: ID Laws,Voting Access & the Elections with James Braxton Peterson

TheFreshOutlook

VOTER ID LAWS
Panelists
Taryn Winter Brill
Dr.James Braxton Peterson
WJ O'Reilly
Francesca Marguerite Maximé[image error]

i_am OTHER Presents: StereoTypes: Unsigned Hype

iamOTHER 
StereoTypes host Ryan Hall takes to the streets to find out who's got the skills to "make it." Let us know who delivered the goods and which 'OTHERS' appear to "fake it." [image error]

Noam Chomsky: An Uninformed Electorate Votes Against Its Best Interests

ExplodedView MEF  Noam Chomsky explains how public opinion and political policy differ and why often undecided voters vote for policies that are opposite public opinion. This was an excerpt from a talk sponsored by the Center for Popular Economics in Amherst, MA on Sept 27, 2012 called "Who Owns the World? Resistance and the Way Forward." More excerpts to come.
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HuffPost Live: Suze Orman On The Defense Of Marriage Act

HuffPostLive  Suze Orman gives her thoughts on why everyone should be allowed to marry, and why it's imperative that you vote for Obama if you believe in gay rights.[image error]

From Lynch-Mobs to Dog-Whistles: Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era; Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on the October 22nd ‘Left of Black’

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text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">From Lynch-Mobs to Dog-Whistles: Color-Blind Racism in the Obama Era; Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on the October 22^nd‘Left of Black’</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">In an era that some tried to define as “Post-Race,” many commentators have been quick to point out the “dog-whistle” racism that has become a feature of our national politics, particularly in relation to the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama.  It is a state of politics that Duke University Sociologist <b>Eduardo Bonilla-Silva</b> recognized nearly a decade ago in his ground breaking study (now in it’s third edition<i>) Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States</i>.  Bonilla-Silva cautions us though, that those dog-whistles—from Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” outburst to President Obama’s depiction as the “welfare President”—are  part of an “old racism,” that while important to address, often obscures the ways that the “new racism,” a color-blind racism is impacting the lives of people of color</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">With his signature humor, Professor Bonilla-Silva, currently the Chair of the Sociology Department at <b>Duke University</b>, joins host and fellow Duke University colleague <b>Mark Anthony Neal</b> in the <i>Left of Black</i> studio in a wide ranging conversation about the Obama Presidency, the importance of the Black Left and the insidiousness of “color-blind” racism.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://leftofblack.tumblr.com/"&... of Black</a> airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack"&... href="http://tinyurl.com/LeftofBlack"&... class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Left of Black on Twitter: @LeftofBlack</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Follow Mark Anthony Neal on Twitter: @NewBlackMan</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>

Reel Black: Ava DuVernay & Bradford Young Talk Collaborating on Middle of Nowhere

ReelBlack
In separate interviews filmmaker AVA DUVERNAY and cinematographer BRADFORD YOUNG discuss their collaborative partnership and the visual approach to MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. In theaters now www.middlenowhere.com

Camera: Craig Carpenter and Christopher Brown. Edit: Mike D. Thanks to: BlackStar Film Festival, Scrbe Video Center.[image error]

Tell Me More: Listeners Love Lupe Fiasco And Johnny Cash Connection

As George McGovern Nears Death, How Antiwar Candidate Challenged Vietnam, Inspired Generation

Democracy Now 
Watch full-hour special tribute to Sen. George McGovern: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/19/as_sen_george_mcgovern_nears_death

In a Democracy Now! special, we look at the life and legacy of Sen. George McGovern, best known for running on an anti-war platform as the Democratic challenger to President Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. A family spokesperson confirms the 90-year-old McGovern is no longer responsive and is "at the end stages of his life." He has been in hospice care in South Dakota since Monday, suffering from a combination of age-related medical conditions that have worsened in recent months. McGovern ran against Nixon in 1972 on a platform of withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam, reducing defense spending, and providing amnesty to those who evaded the draft. Although he ultimately lost his election bid by a landslide, McGovern shattered the consensus in Capitol Hill around the Vietnam War as one of the first senators to speak out against the war. As a decorated World War II pilot who flew B-24 bombers over Nazi Germany, McGovern did not fit the stereotype of antiwar leaders in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also known for transforming how the Democratic Party chooses its presidential nominee, and for his efforts to end world hunger. We air an excerpt of a 2005 documentary about McGovern, "One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern," narrated by Amy Goodman. Exploring McGovern's 1972 grassroots campaign for the presidency, the film features interviews with the candidate himself; supporters and activists like Gore Vidal, Gloria Steinem, Warren Beatty, Howard Zinn; and music from Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Donovan and Elvis Costello.

The John Hope Franklin Papers: A Historian Becomes History

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Nelson | <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-n... BlackVoices</b></a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The only way we can know our past is through the records we keep and pass on. No one was more keenly aware of this than groundbreaking American historian John Hope Franklin, whose papers were recently acquired by Duke University and will soon be open to the public. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">During his prolific career, Franklin spent hours in archives and libraries pouring over letters, diaries, obituaries, business records, photographs, and publications, seeking to tell a new more inclusive American history. His research itself was a form of activism. The staff in many southern libraries and archives in the 1940s and 1950s had never imagined that an African American scholar might wish to use their collections. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">While they could not deny that Franklin had a right to use the materials, they refused to offer him the same levels of service offered to white researchers. At North Carolina's State Department of Archives and History, for example, the director made him wait for several days while they arranged for a separate research area for him. </span></span></div><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The archive's white staff, unwilling to serve a black researcher, required him to retrieve and reshelve the materials he used. (This latter requirement was soon dropped when white researchers complained that Franklin could browse the closed stacks while they could not -- an exquisite example of the ironies of segregation.) From his intensive engagement with historic materials emerged a long list of books and articles that would expand and enrich our understanding of American history, including <i>From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans</i>, <i>The Emancipation Proclamation</i>, <i>The Militant South</i>,<i> The Free Negro in North Carolina</i>, <i>George Washington Williams: A Biography</i>, and <i>A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North</i>. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">At the same time Franklin was writing history, he was making history. "I think knowing one's history leads one to act in a more enlightened fashion," he reflected in 1994 in <i>Emerge</i> magazine. "I cannot imagine how knowing one's history would not urge one to be an activist." </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Franklin worked with Thurgood Marshall on the Brown v. Board of Education case and joined protestors in the march led by Martin Luther King, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. After teaching at historically black St. Augustine's University, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University, he was recruited by Brooklyn College to chair the Department of History in 1956. He thus became the first African American to chair an academic department at a predominantly white university (news that made the front page of <i>The New York Times</i>). Franklin then moved to the University of Chicago, again as chair of the history department, before moving for a final time to Duke University, where he was appointed to an endowed professorship in the history department (another first). He remained engaged in the national conversation on race long after his retirement in 1992, most memorably co-chairing President Clinton's 1997 National Advisory Board on Race. After Franklin's death in 2009, his close friend Vernon Jordan lauded him as "a teacher who taught us to believe in the shield of justice and the sword of truth." </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Franklin's papers have now become part of the historical record themselves. A few illustrative examples provide a personal view of this very public historian and activist. Nestled in a series of folders is the typescript of Franklin's father's autobiography. Buck Colbert Franklin was a lawyer in Oklahoma and lived through the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot and its aftermath. He started his autobiography in 1956 and worked with his son to edit the document until his death in 1960. In 2000, John Hope Franklin and his son John Whittington Franklin finished the editing and published My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin. The fragile typescript bears handwritten notes and edits by all three generations and allows us to see a family's history taking shape. While the published version is very true to the typescript, a few sections were excised -- notably a reflection on the ways that segregation can lead to violence and another on human nature -- and some wording was changed to reflect more modern sensibilities. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">In another box, a substantial stack of typed notecards bears testimony to the contributions of historians during the Brown v. Board of Education litigation in the early 1950s. The question at hand was whether the Congress that passed the Fourteenth Amendment and the state legislatures that ratified it believed that the amendment would abolish segregation in public schools. Franklin scoured the records of state governments and reports in contemporary newspapers looking for evidence. ("Historians to the rescue!" Franklin quipped in his autobiography.) Many notecards he generated during his research include his typed or handwritten comments alongside the excerpts. His initial research plan and a handwritten outline of his findings rest alongside the cards. This research, along with that provided by other notable historians, provided the foundation for the legal brief filed by the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, and these cards allow us to sit alongside Franklin as he identified and weighed the evidence. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Wonderful things are often filed in unexpected places. A small portrait of Frederick Douglass is clipped to a letter at the front of a folder full of correspondence related to Franklin's article for LIFE magazine's 1968 series "A Search for the Black Past." Despite Franklin's broad interests in American history, in the eyes of the public he was most identified with African American history, and many people wrote to him about the series. The correspondent who sent him this small photograph noted that it had been given to him by his grandfather (who remembered the Civil War years and called Douglass as "the [most] powerful negro in America.") The letter was written on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday a mere six years after Dr. King's assassination. In his response, Franklin replied that he had not been able to find another copy of this particular photo and would try other sources. As we don't have any other notes about his findings, it is up to present researchers to continue the search.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">John Hope Franklin is a towering figure in American historiography. His papers allow us to look over his shoulder as he developed his ideas and worked for a more inclusive and equitable society. We are fortunate indeed that he saw himself as both historian and history.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /><i>The John Hope Franklin Papers are currently being prepared for research use. The date when they will open to the public will be announced on the website of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke: library.duke.edu/Rubenstein.</i&gt... class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">***</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Naomi L. Nelson</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> is the Director of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>