R.I.P.

Don Cornelius

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Happy MLK Day

Harry Bellafonte

Sing Your Song > H E R E

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Back Stateside

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Power Cubed

Lamar's always a great listen.

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Spell Check!

Here's some video of this years' Super Saturday.

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Happy America Day

The many sides of America.

I'm proud to be a part of them all.

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"no baking soda volcano?"

Last Week i had the giddy pleasure to get a table at this year's Super Saturday youth science event in Harlem.

Here are some shots from the inspiring day:

Shapes, shapes, shapes.

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Last Week's Interestings // 137

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The Color Purple

Blacks & purple: popular culture's big inside joke...

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correcto

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QUOTABLE '36'

"...having a black face is high-risk / high reward."

- Jean-Claude

When I Grow Up

Last Week, i had the absolute honor to finally shake hands with the man named Melvin Van Peebles.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center held a screening for his multi-industry-altering film, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song followed by a proper Q&A.

W-w-w-whut?!

Here's the trailer for How To Eat Your Watermelon In White Company (and Enjoy It), a documentary about Melvin and his offensively prolific & varied creative output:

Im struggling to not write EVERYTHING I KNOW about this man & his work [ it's just good blogging etiquette ] so i'll wrap this up with two fun facts:

01) Melvin wrote this:

02) His hustle's like this:

Melvin Van Peebles' wiki > H E R E

yessir,

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Nigger, Who?

James Baldwin > H E R E

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