Anarchism
Anti-Racism
Black Feminism
Black Power
Democratic Socialism
Environmental Justice
Human Rights
Libertarian Socialism
Negritude
Pan-Africanism
Reparations
Revolutionary Nationalism
Social Justice
Womanism
Communication Rights
Copyright
Cyberspace
Intellectual Property
Media Consolidation
Media Justice
Media Policy and Regulation
(...yes, I'm something of a Black Radical Technologist, but just admit it, you like me this way.)
音樂
Hip-Hop helped politicize me, but my full interest in music is ridiculously diverse and varied. With that said, there are a few folks I want to give thanks to, as much for their convictions as their music:
A Tribe Called Quest
Afrika Bambaataa
Arrested Development
Blackalicious
Blue Scholars
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bomani Darel Armah
Boogie Down Productions
Brand Nubian
Bruce Springsteen
Common
Da Lench Mob
De La Soul
Dead Prez
Dilated Peoples
Dixie Chicks
Erykah Badu
Fela Kuti
Gang Starr
Gil Scott-Heron
Harry Belafonte
India Arie
Iyeoka
Jimmy Cliff
John Lennon
KRS-ONE
Last Poets
Lauryn Hill
Mark J.
Medusa
Meshell Ndegeocello
Michael Franti/Spearhead
Miriam Makeba
Mos Def
Mystic
Neil Young
Nina Simone
Odetta
Ozomotli
Paris
Paul Miller/DJ Spooky
Paul Robeson
Peter Gabriel
Pete Seeger
Poor Righteous Teachers
Public Enemy/Chuck D
Queen Latifah
Rage Against The Machine
Sistah Souljah
Skin/Skunk Anansie
Saul Williams
Stevie Wonder
Sun Ra
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Talib Kweli
The Clash
The Coup
The Roots
Tracy Chapman
U2/Bono
Wanda Coleman
Watts 1965
Watts Prophets
Woody Guthrie
X-Clan
(...and a special mention for Finesse & Synquis, because only me and Saul Williams remember them.)
電影
I've seen far too many films for a listing to have any meaning. However, I do want to mention the following people, who make it possible for a non-stereotypical Black aesthetic to exist in cinema beyond just a few films:
Arthur Jafa
Ayoka Chenzira
Bill Duke
Bill Gunn
Billy Woodberry
Carl Franklin
Cauleen Smith
Charles Burnett
Ernest Dickerson
Euzhan Palcy
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Gordon Parks
Haile Gerima
Ivan Dixon
John Akomfrah
Julie Dash
Kasi Lemmons
Leslie Harris
Marlon Riggs
Melvin Van Peebles
Neema Barnette
Orlando Bagwell
Ousmane Sembene
Raoul Peck
Reginald & Warrington Hudlin
Robert Townsend
Rusty Cundieff
St. Clair Bourne
Stan Lathan
Tim Reid
Wendell B. Harris
William Greaves
Yvonne Welbon
Zeinabu Irene Davis
(...and a special "white Negro" award goes to John Sayles, for being one of the only non-Black American directors to portray Black people as fully realized human beings.)
In terms of film genres or aesthetics, I'm most interested in the following:
(...and yes, I'll admit that when it comes to guilty pleasures, my so-called feminist and intellectual self finds the often bloody and ridiculous Giallos entertaining.)
電視
I don't watch live TV, it's nothing but DVDs for me, and the list of shows I consider worthy of mentioning is short:
Aeon Flux
Ghost in the Shell: SAC
Homicide: Life on the Street
Iron Chef
Millenium
New York Undercover
Spawn
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Prisoner
The Twilight Zone (Original)
(...OK, I admit that the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (G.L.O.W.) was a favorite when I was struggling through puberty.)
書籍
I can't even begin to list all the good books I've read, but here are a few classics for those who share my philosophical proclivities:
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Zinn)
A Wrinkle in Time (L'Engle)
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (Watkins)
All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies (Hull, Scott, & Smith)
American Negro Slave Revolts (Aptheker)
Animal Farm (Orwell)
Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness (Gilroy)
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History (Allen)
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Collins)
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Robinson)
Black No More (Schuyler)
Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 (Du Bois)
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon)
Caste, Class, & Race (Cox)
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (Crenshaw, Gotanda, Peller, Thomas)
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Thomas)
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (Georgakas & Surkin)
Discourse on Colonialism (Cesaire)
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (Watkins)
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Kelley)
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (Marable)
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Rodney)
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Payne)
Kindred (Butler)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Chomsky & Herman)
Mumbo Jumbo (Reed)
Natural Theology (Paley)
Negroes With Guns (Williams)
Network Nation (Hiltz & Turoff)
Pan-Africanism or Communism? The Coming Struggle for Africa (Padmore)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire)
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (Tyson)
Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism (Gates)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Lorde)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Shabazz & Haley)
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (James)
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Hughes & Rampersad)
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (Cruse)
The Matrix (Quarterman)
The Mis-Education of the Negro (Woodson)
The Souls of Black Folk (Du Bois)
The User's Directory of Computer Networks (Laquey)
The Wretched of the Earth (Fanon)
They Came Before Columbus (Van Sertima)
Think Like a Grandmaster (Kotov)
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Moraga & Anzaldua)
Women, Race, & Class (Davis)
Zen and the Art of the Internet (Kehoe)
(...and no, I don't think any of these have ever been featured on Oprah's Book Club.)
偶像
My Earthly Father. He taught me the true meaning of Black Power, without ever raising his fist in the air. A luta continua, Daddy.
My Heavenly Father -- the "Revolutionary Humanist" and "Libertarian Socialist" -- Jesus, The Christ.
People:
A. Philip Randolph
Aime Cesaire
Albert Einstein
Amilcar Cabral
Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones
Angela Davis
Anna Julia Cooper
Arthur Ashe
Audrey Lorde
Barbara Lee
Barbara Smith
Basil Davidson
Bayard Rustin
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Canada Lee
Charlotta Bass
Che Guevara
Chris Hani
C.L.R. James
Constance Baker Motley
Cyril Briggs
Denmark Vessey
Dennis Brutus
Dom Helder Camera
Ella Baker
Fannie Lou Hamer
Frances Beale
Frantz Fanon
Fred Hampton
Frederick Douglass
Gloria Akasha Hull
Gloria Watkins/bell hooks
Grace Lee Boggs
Harold Cruse
Harriet Tubman
Harry Belafonte
Harry Haywood
Harry T. Moore
Herbert Aptheker
Hubert Harrison
Ida B. Wells
James Baldwin
James Boggs
James Cone
James Forman
John Brown
John Henrik Clarke
Johnnie Tillmon
Julius Nyerere
Kali Tal
Kimberle Crenshaw Williams
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael
Langston Hughes
Leon H. Sullivan
Leonard Tim Hector
Leopold Senghor
Malcolm X/El Haj Malik El Shabazz
Manning Marable
Marcus Garvey
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michelle Wallace
Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay
Nat Turner
Oliver Cox
Oscar Romero
Ossie Davis
Patrice Lumumba
Patricia Bell-Scott
Patricia Hill-Collins
Paul Robeson
Paulette Nardal
Queen Mother Moore
Ralph Bunche
Randall Robinson
Richard Stallman
Robert F. Williams
Robert L. Allen
Robin D.G. Kelley
Ruby Dee
Sekou Toure
Sojourner Truth
Sonia Sanchez
Steven Biko
Suzanne Cesaire
Toni Cade Bambara
Walter Rodney
W.E.B DuBois
William L. Patterson
Winnie Mandela
Yuri Kochiyama
Organizations:
African Blood Brotherhood (ABB)
African National Congress (ANC)
All-African People's Revolutionary Party (AAPRP)
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP)
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Combahee River Collective
Deacons for Defense (DFD)
Five Percent Nation/Nation of Gods & Earths (NGE)
Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
Republic of New Africa (RNA)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
Universal Zulu Nation (UZN)
Movements:
Abolitionist Movement
Anti-Apartheid Movement
Black Arts Movement (BAM)
Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
Black Power Movement (BPM)
Civil Rights Movement (CRM)
Harlem Renaissance
Negritude Movement
Niagara Movement
(...and billions of others not affiliated with either the Democratic or the Republican parties.)
My passionate beliefs cause me to sometimes act like this:
I'm a proud Black man, but there were a couple moments during puberty when I wouldn't have been too upset if I looked like this:
As a geek and a nerd, I sometimes feel like this:
Despite my materialist grasp of the world, my utopian side sees life like this:
Your host is a communications, media, and technology consultant with over 15 years of experience in the corporate and non-profit arenas. He has worked with organizations such as Project Change (AntiRacismNet), Media Alliance (San Francisco), TAO Communications (now known as the Organization for Autonomous Communications), the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Black Radical Congress (BRC), and the Institute for Global Communications (The World's First Non-Profit Internet Service Provider), among many others.
He is widely regarded as a legend of grassroots technology activism and advocacy (at various times referred to as "Johnny Appleseed," "Moses," and "The Father of Pan-African Cyberspace"), and was the first person to explicitly research and document African and African-descendent sociocultural production and usage in virtual environments (that's just a fancy way of saying that before white folks discovered the Digital Divide, he discovered the online Underground Railroad). Out of this work came the first Pan-African guide to online resources (a Yahoo and Google equivalent for it's time), which subsequently inspired a growth in online activity by African-descendents which is still being felt to this day. His reputation is also due in no small part to the fact that he was instrumental in the formation of some of the first ethnically and culturally oriented virtual communities for African-Americans, going back to the early days of dialup bulletin board systems, proprietary commercial networks, and other precursors to today's Internet.
He is currently the principal consultant with Virtual Identity, a not-for-profit consultancy he founded, and a member and co-founder of the emerging Media Justice Network, a national coalition of grassroots activists and policy advocates who are putting a race, gender, and class analysis at the center of the movement to create a truly democratic media landscape. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Online Policy Group, a research, policy, and advocacy organization focused on equality in and equal access to cyberspace; the National Advisory Board of the Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCnet), an international association of public-access computer and media technology training centers; and is a member of the New Media Working Group of Amnesty International, the world's premier human rights organization.
In 2000, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Marketing Opportunities in Business and Entertainment (MOBE) for his pioneering work as an "Influencer & Innovator of the Internet and Technology." In 2001, he was named an international "New Media Hero" by the Independent Media Institute (AlterNet).
He is currently in the planning stage for a book and film project that will explore African and African-descendent people's relation to and engagement with technology from an historical, contemporary, and futuristic perspective.
While the scope and influence of his work is international, he physically resides in the Bay Area of California, in the United States of America.
QUOTE: W.E.B. Du Bois
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, -- a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his face.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
"The Souls of Black Folk"
A.C. McClurg & Company
1903
QUOTE: X-Clan
Abra Cadabra
Allah Baby Professor
All hail Funkin' Lesson
Sweet tongue, grand writer of scrolls
Now behold, let the legend unfold
Born in the Cosmos
Where no time and space do exist
Live in the midst of the chaos
Mortals labeled me as illogical, mythological.
They couldn't comprehend when I brought The Word
A stick called Verb, a Black steel nerve
Teachin' those actors and actresses
Who write a couple lines on what Black is
Really?
Then they labeled me a sin
When a brother just speaks what's within
I guess I'm blacker than the shadow in the darkest alley
That they're always scared to go in
Boo!
X-Clan
"Funkin' Lesson"
To the East, Blackwards
4th & Broadway
1989
QUOTE: Ralph Ellison
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination -- indeed, everything and anything except me.
Nor is my invisibility exactly a matter of a biochemical accident to my epidermis. That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality. I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves. Then too, you're constantly being bumped against by those of poor vision. Or again, you often doubt if you really exist. You wonder whether you aren't simply a phantom in other people's minds. Say, a figure in a nightmare which the sleeper tries with all his strength to destroy. It's when you feel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back. And, let me confess, you feel that way most of the time. You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're a part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them recognize you. And, alas, it's seldom successful.
Ralph Ellison
"Invisible Man"
Random House
1952
QUOTE: Sun Ra
How do you know I'm real? I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist -- in this society. If you did, your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real. If you were, you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we're both -- myths. I do not come to you as the reality, I come to you as the myth, because that's what Black people are -- myths. I came from a dream that the Black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a present sent to you by your ancestors.
Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount (Sun Ra)
"Space Is The Place"
Rhapsody Films
1974
QUOTE: Nina Simone
As I became more knowledgeable I came to my own conclusions about separatism. In the white man's world the Black man would always lose out, so the idea of a separate black nation, whether it was in America or in Africa, made sense. But I didn't believe that there was any basic difference between the races -- whoever is on top uses whatever means they can to keep the other down, and if Black America was on top they'd use race as a way of oppressing whites in exactly the way they themselves were oppressed. Anyone who has power only has it at the expense of someone else, and to take that power away from them you have to use force, because they'll never give it up from choice. That is what I came to believe, and it was a big step forward in my political thinking because I realised that what we were really fighting for was the creation of a new society. When I had started out in the movement all I wanted were my rights under the constitution, but the more I thought about it the more I realised that no matter what the president or the supreme court might say, the only way we could get true equality was if America changed completely, top to bottom. And this change had to start with my own people, with Black revolution.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (Nina Simone)
"I Put A Spell On You:
The Autobiography of Nina Simone"
Pantheon Books
1992
QUOTE: James Baldwin
Negro speech is vivid largely because it is private. It is a kind of emotional shorthand -- or sleight-of-hand -- by means of which Negroes express, not only their relationship to each other, but their judgment of the white world. And, as the white world takes over this vocabulary -- without the faintest notion of what it really means -- the vocabulary is forced to change. The same thing is true of Negro music, which has had to become more and more complex in order to continue to express any of the private or collective experience.
James Baldwin
"Sermons and Blues"
New York Times Book Review
March 29, 1959
QUOTE: Arthur Jafa
The very proposition of an authentic Black cinema, a cinema as rich in its power and alienation as Black music, instills dread and anticipation in the hearts of those who want to consign Black creativity to the realm of 'freak n!@@&r shit,' as if it were no more the result of profound intellectual activity than the clotting of blood.
Arthur Jafa
"La Venus Negra"
Artforum
January 1992
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