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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Giving Clyde Stubblefield His Due
Glad to see the man who came up with, among others, the “Funky Drummer” beat and essentially the basis for a whole canon of classic hip hop — “Fight the Power,” “Paid in Full,” “Shadrach,” “Mama Said Knock You Out,” … Continue reading
Random Dancing: Paris Metro
Love this video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwfXj9JVXrI
New Series: Lebron James back to Naismith: A History of Race in Basketball
To learn more about my e-book, The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, from James Naismith to LeBron James, click here. It includes this essay plus much more. LeBron James Back to James Naismith: A History of Race and Basketball … Continue reading
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Tagged African American basketball history, Edwin Henderson, James Naismith, race and basketball, YMCA
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Martin Luther King Jr. on What We Say and What We Do
“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On the one hand, we proudly … Continue reading
The Holy Grail of Basketball Movies
I’m embarrassed to admit that I only today learned of the existence of the 1981 classic “The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island.” To be honest, I skipped the rest of the clips on YouTube to go straight to the end, … Continue reading
Some Random Music: “A Little Bit of Sympathy” by the Robin Trower Band
I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time I hear the Black Keys, I think first of Bad Company and then the Robin Trower band, which doesn’t get the love it deserves. Trower shredded in the best Hendrix … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Keys, James Dewar, Little Bit of Sympathy, Reg Isidore, Robim Trower Band, Robin Trower
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What happens when you search for “Lonnie Shelton” on YouTube
I’m working on a piece right now that had me searching for video of the old SuperSonics legend. The clip below is the first thing that turned up. It’s not for everyone, but I found myself helpless under the assault … Continue reading
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Tagged Gus Williams, Jack Sikma, Lonnie Shelton, Paul Olden, Seattle SuperSonics
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“Basketball and Books” panel at Berkeley
Here’s video from a Feb. 10 “Basketball and Books” panel I did at UC Berkeley’s Journalism School with George Dohrmann, author of “Play Their Hearts Out,” and Tim Keown, who wrote “Skyline.” The general gist was about how writing about … Continue reading
Isaiah Thomas v. Arizona
I’d be remiss to leave this one off the blog. Really, no comment necessary. This one’s going to be remembered for a long time: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGP6nBiub8
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“You Gotta Move” by Fred McDowell
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtlVSedpIRU You got to move/You got to move You got to move, child/You got to move But when the Lord’Gets ready You got to move You may be high/You may be low You may be rich, child/You may be poor … Continue reading
Some Random Music: “Hard Times” by Baby Huey
This song’s been covered in a great version by Curtis Mayfield, more recently by John Legend and the Roots, and sampled in over a dozen hip hop songs (Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest, Ghostface Killah, etc.), but the original … Continue reading
On the Flight to the Exurbs
The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that Oakland’s black population dropped around 25 percent over the last decade, from 139,000 to 106,000, according to U.S. Census data: African Americans have been moving in large numbers from urban areas to the … Continue reading
Interview with Hudson Taylor: Enlisting Athletes to Fight Homophobia
As I was writing The Hustle, I grappled with the question of whether sports can be an effective vehicle for social change. In some cases, such as with Jackie Robinson’s integration of baseball, changes on the field presage greater shifts … Continue reading
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Tagged Athlete Ally, Charles Barkley, homophobia, Hudson Taylor, Human Rights Campaign, LGBT, Maryland, Scott Fujita, Steve Nash, Wrestler, Wrestling
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Cornel West on Engaged Citizenship: The Socratic and Prophetic Traditions, the Blues, and Democracy
Damian Joseph pointed me towards the YouTube video — linked here – of Cornel West speaking at Sonoma State University in 2004. The talk was given right after the release of West’s book Democracy Matters, just as the American military … Continue reading
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Tagged Blues, Citizen, Cornel West, Democracy, Prophetic, Socratic, Tragicomic
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“A broader story of race, class and modern American society”
Great review of “The Hustle” at OpenSalon. Book Review: Doug Merlino’s “The Hustle” By Jonathan Tjarks In the late 1980’s, an AAU basketball team of inner-city black kids and white kids from Lakeside Prep, Bill Gates’ alma mater, won the … Continue reading
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Seattle’s Roundball Race Experiment, Revisited
Nice interview about The Hustle in Gelf Magazine. If you’re in New York on Thursday, March 3, I’ll be at Gelf’s Varsity Letters reading series at 7:30pm at Le Poisson Rouge in the Village. Please stop by.
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