Archive for August, 2013
Saturday, August 10th, 2013
Sent [to D:F/M Colleagues]: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:17 AM
To: New York State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein [jdklein@senate.state.ny.us]
Temporary President and IDC Coalition Leader
I am a tenured assistant journalism professor at Hunter College and I am writing to ask you to put Healthy Workplace Bill (S3863) on the Senate Finance Committee agenda before the legislative session ends.
Editor
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Tags:Academic Bullying, CUNY, Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, workplace bullying
Posted in Blogroll, It Was One of Those Semesters, It's Been One of Those Semesters, Journalism, The Controversy Continues, Wooly Bully | Comments Closed
Friday, August 9th, 2013
THE BUTLER Screening
Will Forest Whitaker cop another Oscar? Will Director Lee Daniels cop his first Oscar? Will the screenwriter cop his first Oscar?
Editor’s Note: The original headline stating that THE BUTLER was opening August 9 was an OBVIOUS error.
Tags:American racism, Black Actresses/Actors, Black Directors, Black Films, Civil Rights Movement, HOLLYWOOD, OSCAR, THE BUTLER
Posted in Blogroll, Ethnic News, Journalism, News/Commentary/Opinion | Comments Closed
Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Am slowly nurturing twitter for the Big Offensive.
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
Disclaimer: Attention Black people and White people who use “nigger” in their conversations for solace, confidence or other reasons: Your time is running out … that’s how extraordinary this movie is.
Tags:Must See Movie of the Year
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Tuesday, August 6th, 2013
… But Not the NRA
[Journal Square, Jersey City, New Jersey]
Tags:assault rifles, guns, machine guns, NRA, Police, weapons
Posted in Journalism, Photo Journalism | Comments Closed
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Osama Abdel-Khale, Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the United Nations
Osama Abdel-Khalek took heavy hits at the Africa Roundtable – EGYPT IN CRISIS at Global Information Network yesterday when he said the Egyptian Military Coup wasn’t a coup. He described “it” as a popular uprising.
Many in the audience and everyone on the panel harshly disagreed.
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Tags:African News, Egyptian crisis, human rights, Tahrir Square, The Arab Spring
Posted in Blogroll, Ethnic News, Journalism, State of Journalism | Comments Closed
THE BUTLER Opens Next Friday, August 16, in New York City: But Will It Cop
Friday, August 9th, 2013THE BUTLER Screening
Will Forest Whitaker cop another Oscar? Will Director Lee Daniels cop his first Oscar? Will the screenwriter cop his first Oscar?
Editor’s Note: The original headline stating that THE BUTLER was opening August 9 was an OBVIOUS error.
Tags:American racism, Black Actresses/Actors, Black Directors, Black Films, Civil Rights Movement, HOLLYWOOD, OSCAR, THE BUTLER
Posted in Blogroll, Ethnic News, Journalism, News/Commentary/Opinion | Comments Closed