Van Jones was one of my Community Organizer Hall of Famers. Still is. Van Jones spoke at Netroots Nation Friday morning in Las Vegas. Jones was another Obama administration casualty of “gotcha” right wing media. He resigned from his post as White House Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation [...]
A few of my readers are aware that the blogroll on this site has been shrinking. Since launching eclectique|916 I removed two links from my Sites, Sounds, and Bytes roll and placed them on a line-by-line “editorial merit” basis. I still read them, but rather than take the whole bunch, I’ll pull out [...]
If you’re in DC, October 4, there’s a free showing of the documentary COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS, an exploration of the creative and legal ramifications of music sampling in Hip-Hop. Executive producer and writer for the documentary Kembrew McLeod will be part of the Q&A.
WHERE: Georgetown University Intercultural Center (ICC) Auditorium
WHEN: Sunday, October [...]
Dylan Favre is #1 on today’s Google Trends. His hotness rate is “On Fire.”
Favre is a high school senior at St. Stanislaus in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. As of last week, he has thrown 102 touchdown passes and is heading to break the state record of 104. The Clarion Ledger [...]
Message from Thomas Sayers Ellis. See you September 30th
TOWARDS A MORE CIVIL UNION - JIM LEACH, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
“In our society we rightly identify hate words with racial, ethnic, and gender slurs. What are we therefore to make of the usage or what more aptly might be described as [...]
From my sister.
And be sure to check out the Pew Research Center for People and the Press’ report on how the public evaluates the acuracy of the news media.
The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views [...]
Yesterday, I had a two hour lunch meeting with Bomani Armah, aka “D’Mite.” He’s also known as the “Mr. Read a Book,” a crunk music video that made him nortorious on CNN and with the lit’rate set. We covered a lot of territory about books, music, role models, freelancing, parenting, culture, creativity, and media. [...]
May Day! May Day!Undercover Blackman published his last post today. Undercover Blackman was the blog created by Emmy award-winning writer and producer David Mills (”Homocide…, “The Corner,” “NYPD Blues,” “King Pin”). The archives is still live. There are classics. Relive the longest Democratic campaign in history - 2008. Check [...]
For someone like me who grew up in D.C. neighborhoods, Capitol Hill was like another world, an island unto itself. That was called “Washington,” we lived in “D.C.” The feeling from the Hill seemed to be mutual and the divide has widened over the years.
My sister once described official Washington as [...]
Everybody’s got a story. About a week into living on planet earth, you can count yourself among the many who have a past. And definitely by the time you learn to talk, think, eat and sleep on your own watch, you’ve got a perspective.
My friend Amy Hendrick, a talented photographer, cool [...]
