The Speech from Document Films on Vimeo. On the night of Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress – a rarity for any sitting president – we dragged an old tv into the waiting room to show the assembled patients and staff Obama’s speech and get their reactions. Here Robert Taylor and Sheon Slaughter, [...]
Let These Voices Be Heard (The Speech)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 20. Oct, 2009 in class and poverty, economic policy, friends, health, human rights, politics, video
Jay Smooth Nails It
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Nov, 2008 in election, politics, race and racism
The Sting of Victory
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 14. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, civil rights movement, election, friends, glbt, politics, race and racism
By Amanda Cary As a lifelong New Englander, I spent the final days of this election season in California. On the evening of November 5, after searching every newsstand for a newspaper to remember the historic day that came before, I finally found a copy of the San Jose Mercury Times. The two headlines read: [...]
Eyes on the Prize
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 10. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, election, friends, glbt, human rights, podcast, politics, race and racism, Weblogs, women and feminism
This is Nicole. She is one of the many talented photographers whose work I follow on flickr. The same night that the country voted for a Black president, majorities of voters voted against gay families and the rights of gay people in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. Nicole is angry and so am I. We [...]
Election Night in Chicago
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 09. Nov, 2008 in election, friends
By Rebecca Thal We were way back in the crowd, on a patch of the lawn where it was possible to see the jumbotron only from tiptoe, and completely impossible to see the stage. So, when my flexed toes finally gave out, while Barack Obama’s words resonated around us, I kept myself occupied by looking [...]
It’s a New Day
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 08. Nov, 2008 in election, Music, race and racism
Have you seen the new one from will.i.am yet?
Barack Obama for the Generations
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 07. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, class and poverty, election, friends, hungry blues, john due, labor movement, politics, race and racism, southwest ms, women and feminism
Our election of Barack Obama to be President of the United States of America has been filling me with overwhelming emotions. As it has been doing for so many people. It has been hard to put any of this into words. For me it begins with my being a child of the Civil Rights Movement. [...]
President Barack Obama
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 05. Nov, 2008 in breaking news, election, Music, podcast, race and racism
Redesign
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 02. Nov, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, family, liberal party of new york, nyc politics, Paul Greenberg 101, photo, race and racism, situations and predicaments, southwest ms
You may have noticed that Hungry Blues has changed its look. After more than two and a half years with my heavily modified versions of Scott Wallick’s VeryPlainTxt theme, I’ve been feeling the urge to change up the look of my site. When I came across Lucian E. Marin’s Journalist theme a little over a [...]
Our Votes Don’t All Need to Be Counted if the Election Isn’t Close
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 31. Oct, 2008 in election, race and racism, voting rights
That’s pretty much the New York Times analysis. Provisional ballots will also come into play if a huge turnout causes long lines in Ohio, leading lawyers to ask the courts to keep polls open late. When polls are kept open after hours, the ballots cast must be provisional. Problems with the ballots will not affect [...]
McCain’s Self-Immolating Campaign
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 11. Oct, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, friends, politics, race and racism, Weblogs
For an elaboration on why the McCain/Palin hate mongering is a losing strategy see Abby’s post. I feel like McCain is doing a great job appealing to the bottom 16th percentile…. And “shoring up” the bottom 16th percentile isn’t going to win him any elections. There’s just not enough population there. Let me tell you [...]
“Uppity,” That’s Racist for “Kill”
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Sep, 2008 in breaking news, civil rights movement, election, race and racism, southwest ms
US Representative Lynn Westmoreland, a Republican from Georgia, made a very bald appeal to racists to unite against Obama. This wasn’t a private statement caught on a mic he didn’t realize was on. This was a statement for the record, to reporters, in the halls of the United States Congress. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential [...]
Did Martin Die in Vain?
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 04. Apr, 2008 in civil rights movement, election, friends, marsha joyner, politics, race and racism, women and feminism
By Marsha Joyner Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? [...]
When Is McCain Going to Denounce Anti-Semites in His Campaign?
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 29. Feb, 2008 in antisemitism, politics, race and racism, Weblogs
A lack of time and nothing more to add lead me to give you this one whole cloth, by dnA over at his excellent blog, Too Sense. Anger over anti-Semitism on the American Right, when coming from the Goyim, has only to do with the fact that the vast majority of American Jews are white. [...]
Dick Gregory: Bill Clinton is NOT Black
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 24. Feb, 2008 in civil rights, election, nola, race and racism, Weblogs
Great clip from yesterday’s State of the Black Union footage in NOLA (via Baratunde): If you know some of my other work, you’ll know why I love Gregory’s quote from way back: “If these Mississippi white Klansmen, who do not know how to plan crimes, who are ignorant, illiterate bastards, can completely baffle our FBI, [...]
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anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
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