[NB: There will be blemishes of profanity in this post. I apologise in advance!] I saw Seven Pounds tonight with a mate at the cinema. I know the film did not open to great reviews, but I could give an F really because I have always been a Will Smith fan. It opened last week [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The Concept of Black Stars
Posted in Life on January 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
‘Whirlwind’ is IN Tennis’ Hall of Fame
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t normally bring up super-personal info here but in this year of black firsts, it was brought to my attention that I should share this information about my grandfather… From the International Tennis Hall of Fame website: “NINE-TIME GRAND SLAM SINGLES CHAMPION MONICA SELES ELECTED TO INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME. Gimeno, Dell and Johnson [...]
Eastwood does the right thing in “Gran Torino”
Posted in AfroSpear, Culture, Justice, Life, Movies, Racism on January 25, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I went to see the new Clint Eastwood film “Gran Torino” and it was fantastic. At the end, as I sat there and watched the credits roll, I wondered if this was Clint’s response to Spike Lee and the controversy last year over the lack of African-American characters in his last two films on WWII: [...]
Milk & Black
Posted in Life, tagged Milk on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
[Cross-Posted @ Charcoal Ink] I went to see Milk today. It was a two hour microscopic view of the life of Harvey Milk, an American gay activist who was the first openly gay individual elected to office in California. It was well-made, stylistic and had a tour-de-force performance from Sean Penn*. I knew there were [...]
The Frantz Fanon Link in Skin Lightener Advertisements
Posted in Racism, tagged Beauty Advertisements, Frantz Fanon on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Cross-posted at Charcoal Ink) I was magazining it in Borders last week. And for this painful reason, I can’t get this advert out of my head. I was reading Black Beauty & Hair magazine. It’s a beauty mag for Black British women with tips on beauty etc. It has stacks of photos on tips for [...]
Pioneering Black British Tailor Awarded OBE By HM Queen
Posted in Black UK, News, tagged Andrew Ramroop, Savile Row, The Queen on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Voice, Britain’s leading black newspaper, has reported that Andrew Ramroop has been awarded an OBE by HM The Queen this year! Ramroop was born in Trinidad & Tobago and was the first black tailor shop on Savile Row, the iconic street in London that has created bespoke clothes for men for decades. Congrats to [...]
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