Undercover Black Man

Bet you don’t know who Jackie Shane is. I didn’t know... until Toronto-based music writer David Dacks (an occasional commenter here at UBM...

Been writing for the past few weeks, so I haven’t gone to the movies... or even felt like going to the movies. Which means I haven’t seen “G...

Today provided a double dose of right-wing black brainiacs from the Reagan era. Prof. Walter E. Williams was substitute host on “The Rush L...

Jesse Lee Peterson , the favorite Negro of right-wing talkers such as Sean Hannity, made a career out of hating on Jesse Jackson. Now he’s m...

The so-called “birther” movement – an Obama Derangement Disorder in which people believe Barack Obama was born in Africa (not Hawaii) and t...

On Gayle King ’s satellite radio show today (via the “Oprah Radio” channel), Henry Louis Gates said he’s not ready to put the Cambridge cop ...

You know it wasn’t all love today for MJ. In Right-Wing Talk Radio Land, some professional provocateurs sank their teeth into the dead body ...

You might be all Michaeled out by now... but here’s a talk-radio artifact I must pass along. Because I’m still that much of a P-Funk freak. ...

There’s a generation of African-American culture writers – journalists, critics, authors – who owe their professional success to hip-hop. Th...

Ever heard of Alex Jones ? He’s a right-wing conspiracy nut who believes that “global elites” orchestrated 9/11. He also produced a video ca...

Couple of weeks ago, Elvis Mitchell interviewed screenwriter Jenny Lumet on his radio show. She’s the granddaughter of Lena Horne, the daug...

TV producer Steven Bochco – the man who used to sign my paychecks – was the guest last week on Elvis Mitchell’s radio show, “The Treatment....

Guess who said that on the radio today? (Easiest. Question. Ever.) Who else but America’s favorite clown, Rush Limbaugh? Good thing I have a...

Or maybe he’s sniffing glue. Or else he is so convinced that Barack Obama will be our next president, he can only lash out with impotent ra...

Prof. Ronald L. Mallett is a physicist at the University of Connecticut. And one of his areas of study is time travel. Which makes him the ...

Last Friday night on KFI, my favorite L.A. talk-radio station, prominent black conservative Ward Connerly chatted with Joe Hicks , KFI’s to...

Lookit, I enjoyed and respected Tim Russert’s work like most TV news junkies. And I made known my shock and sadness when Mr. Russert died l...

This afternoon on Jersey City’s WFMU, there’ll be a three-hour celebration of the year 1988. Included in the discussion will be culture blog...

On Rush Limbaugh’s show this morning, a black female caller – Lisa from Atlanta – jumped in Rush’s shit for something he said yesterday. (I ...

First, let me thank photographer Wolfgang Borrs for allowing me to use this portrait of filmmaker Charles Burnett . Burnett is a longtime h...