The Brooklyn-born beauty passed on Sunday at 92 years-old, commemorating a life marked by activism, triumph, and elegance during a time in America when the opportunities for black performers were virtually nonexistent.
“You wouldn’t be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you’d be asked to sign your autograph,” Horne said in a 1998 interview with [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Celebrating Lena Horne
May 10, 2010 – 2:13 pm
Will Lyricism Leave You Broke? Jay Smooth weighs in
May 6, 2010 – 10:12 am
This post is about two months late (write me up a late pass please), but will continue to be a relevant conversation as ringtone rap still gets top billing across the nation and the world.
“To be lyrical, or not to be lyrical?”
That’s the question that blogger Jay Smooth kicked out to the web world [...]
Comic Series Illustrates Ugandan Civil War
May 5, 2010 – 8:14 am
Aside from the high school adventures of Archie and Jughead, I’ve never been much of a comic book reader or enthusiast. Last summer, while on a flight to Fort Defiance, AZ, I read an article in the New York Times about a new series set in Uganda that explores the country’s gruesome and violent 16-year [...]
The Death of Privacy: How an Internet genius got us to bare it all
May 4, 2010 – 12:12 pm
The era of privacy is officially dead, and Joshua Harris, “the Warhol of the Web,” predicted it. This incredibly innovative, and equally twisted Grim Reaper was the subject of We Live In Public, a documentary released last year that eerily maps out our current relationship with the Internet—a decade before it all went down.
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