Music Monitor - Fall 2005; Part I: Black-Jewish Relations
TOPICS/LINKS
: New York City transit strike, acting "thuggish," and Mayor Michael Bloomberg;
Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums; links to various music lyrics sites; Marcus A. Parker (The Product); Damian Marley; Stevie Wonder; Earth, Wind & Fire; Kindred; Raul Midon; Anthony Hamilton; Tracy Chapman; Floetry; Toni Braxton; LaToya London; Public Enemy; rap lyrics - Juelz Santana, Three 6 Mafia, Nelly; top Black record company executives; Simple to Remember (Jews in the Media/Hollywood); Jewish Journal; World Jewish Congress; Paul Porter (Industry Ears); Jimmy Iovine PBS Frontline interview; music sales continue to sag; India.Arie; oldies lyrics; Gamble & Huff's music catalog; Craig Horowitz' New York magazine article on the Anti-Defamation League, national director Abe Foxman, and anti-Semitism; BN-W's monitor of "Jewish Derogary Terms"; PBS special on Black-Jewish relations; FBI hate crimes report; Advertising Age's 50th Annual 100 Leading National Advertisers publication; Black and Jewish jokes; Radio Islam (Jewish Hegemony in the Music Business); White supremacist organization, National Alliance, puts out Who Rules America?; Paramount, DreamWorks SKG, and Steven Spielberg; Black Electorate interview with author Steven Silbiger (The Jewish Phenomenon); and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Rent; In the Mix; Syriana
TOPICS/LINKS: The Color Purple (Broadway play); Playbill; Broadway Box; Theatermania; New Federal Theatre; New York African Diaspora Film Festival (NYADFF); African Diaspora Video; Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy Leary; Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin; Creating Black Americans by Nell Painter; Bury That Sucka! A Scandalous Love Affair With the N-Word by H. Lewis Smith; Breaking Rank by Norm Stamper; Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America by Scott Poulson-Bryant; Jamie Foxx interview in the Oprah magazine; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Jarhead; Get Rich or Die Tryin'
TOPICS/LINKS
: Quincy Jones; Snoop Dogg; Sumner Redstone (aka Sumner Rothstein); N-word essays - Darryl James, Earl Ofari Hutchinson; Aaron McGruder; Reginald Hudlin; Prussian Blue (White nationalist teenage twin sisters); and more...
Film(s) Monitored: G
TOPICS/LINKS
: Rosa Parks' homegoing; Maya Angelou on the N-word; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Domino
TOPICS/LINKS
: Stevie Wonder; Damian Marley; Blacktino; Chinegro; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: The Gospel
TOPICS/LINKS: American Legacy magazine; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT); Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH); New-York Historical Society; Slavery in New York; Millions More Movement; adoption; marketing/publicity campaigns for Black films; and more...
Film(s) Monitored: Roll Bounce
TOPICS/LINKS: Drumstruck (Off Broadway play); Playbill; Broadway Box; Theatermania; director Malcolm D. Lee; "good" vs. "bad" hair; natural haircare; Big Malik; Nappturality; Dread Connection; Khamit Kinks; Sisterlocks; Motown Girl; Natural Hair Digest; Nappy Hair Affair; Happily Natural Day; Kinky-Curl; and more...
