There are few music personalities as colorful, wild, outrageous, and, well, funky as George Clinton. The man who gave the world Parliament and Funkandelic, and has made generations of listeners get up and shake it, is coming to New York City, and we want you to be there. On Monday, Clinton will appear at the Museum Of The Moving Image to present a screening of the 1994 HBO special "Cosmic Slop." It's a controversial triptych directed by Reginald Hudlin, Warrington Hudlin, and Kevin Rodney Sullivan. Based on the short story "The Space Traders" by Derrick Bell, it imagines a future where extraterrestrials promise the United States untold riches...if they hand over all the black people in the country. The screening will be followed by a talk with Clinton, who just released the memoir "Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?," along with a book signing.
- 10/24/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Never in the history of our nation has a hug been so controversial. Barney the Dinosaur would be ashamed, and so is Ed Schultz, who continued to hammer Sean Hannity for pushing the controversy that President Obama has ties to the late, controversial professor Derrick Bell. Professor Charles Ogletree, who had the tape Hannity played on his show, came on The Ed Show today to not only defend himself and Bell, but also accuse the president's most ardent detractors of reaching too much to try and find something to go after him with.
- 3/15/2012
- by Josh Feldman
- Mediaite - TV
The late Professor Derrick Bell, who was the first black tenured professor at Harvard Law School, has become collateral damage in a failed conservative attempt to discredit President Obama. Smeared by conservative websites, and figures like Sarah Palin, as "radical" and "racist," and unable to speak in his own defense, Prof. Bell's legacy now rests with those who knew him. On Monday night's The Ed Show, the late professor's widow Janet Dewart Bell responded to these attacks on her deceased husband.
- 3/13/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
The back-and-forth between CNN's Soledad O'Brien and Breitbart.com Chief Editor Joel Pollak continued on this morning's Starting Point, as O'Brien sought to dispel misinformation about the late Professor Derrick Bell and Critical Race Theory, which have been the subject of smears by the Big sites. After a tough interview with O'Brien last week, Pollak's Big sites went on a vengeful tirade against the CNN anchor, posting a flurry of articles seeking to discredit her, and promoting their warped vision of Prof. Bell.
- 3/12/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
As host of the program to debut the full tape of President Obama hugging Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell, Sean Hannity has been at the forefront of the attack on the President for his association with a professor he considers radical. On his program last night, he had Erik Rush-- who broke the Jeremiah Wright story-- argue the point that a pattern had emerged, and on his left Sally Kohn, who had been Bell's student and argued that hugging someone doesn't mean all their opinions transfer to you.
- 3/10/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
The news cycle took a very sharp turn this week as the focus of national attention shifted from Rush Limbaugh to a video of President Obama in his college days praising and hugging Harvard Law Professor Derrick Bell. On last night's O'Reilly Factor, Geraldo Rivera finally weighed in, making the case to Bill O'Reilly that the tape is not a huge deal for two main reasons: it was unfair to "try to make Derrick Bell's shoes fit Barack Obama," and making Bell out to be a radical in the first place was a shaky argument.
- 3/10/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
In a sadly ironic move, Breitbart.com satellite site Big Journalism, which recently (and tragically) lost founder Andrew Breitbart, has decided to exact revenge for a tough interview by attacking CNN's Soledad O'Brien on the basis of tweets that she sent the day Professor Derrick Bell died. More poetically, in trying to impugn O'Brien's journalistic integrity, they made the most basic of embarrassing mistakes, misspelling the name of Breitbart.com Editor-in-chief Joel Pollak, referencing a "Joel Pollack."...
- 3/9/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Sean Hannity revealed his exclusive, ground-breaking video this week of Barack Obama speaking at a protest for controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell. Even though the video was already released by Buzzfeed earlier, Hannity promised an uncut, unedited glimpse of Obama's radical ties to Professor Bell.
This ultimately turned out to be a few extra seconds of video in which Obama and Bell hugged on stage. Or, as Jon Stewart put it on Thursday night, "a terrorist chest bump."
However, Obama isn't the only one with a controversial past. Stewart unearthed a Daily Show "Super Top Double Exclusive +1," which revealed Hannity's own radical connections to the likes of convicted perjurer Oliver North, convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, boxing promoter Don King (who was convicted of second degree murder in 1966) and, most bizarrely, rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who in a fiery rant during a 2007 concert called Obama a "piece of...
This ultimately turned out to be a few extra seconds of video in which Obama and Bell hugged on stage. Or, as Jon Stewart put it on Thursday night, "a terrorist chest bump."
However, Obama isn't the only one with a controversial past. Stewart unearthed a Daily Show "Super Top Double Exclusive +1," which revealed Hannity's own radical connections to the likes of convicted perjurer Oliver North, convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, boxing promoter Don King (who was convicted of second degree murder in 1966) and, most bizarrely, rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who in a fiery rant during a 2007 concert called Obama a "piece of...
- 3/9/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Sean Hannity revealed his exclusive, ground-breaking video this week of Barack Obama speaking at a protest for controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell. Even though the video was already released by Buzzfeed earlier, Hannity promised an uncut, unedited glimpse of Obama's radical ties to Professor Bell.
This ultimately turned out to be a few extra seconds of video in which Obama and Bell hugged on stage. Or, as Jon Stewart put it on Thursday night, "a terrorist chest bump."
However, Obama isn't the only one with a controversial past. Stewart unearthed a Daily Show "Super Top Double Exclusive +1," which revealed Hannity's own radical connections to the likes of convicted perjurer Oliver North, convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, boxing promoter Don King (who was convicted of second degree murder in 1966) and, most bizarrely, rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who in a fiery rant during a 2007 concert called Obama a "piece of...
This ultimately turned out to be a few extra seconds of video in which Obama and Bell hugged on stage. Or, as Jon Stewart put it on Thursday night, "a terrorist chest bump."
However, Obama isn't the only one with a controversial past. Stewart unearthed a Daily Show "Super Top Double Exclusive +1," which revealed Hannity's own radical connections to the likes of convicted perjurer Oliver North, convicted Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy, boxing promoter Don King (who was convicted of second degree murder in 1966) and, most bizarrely, rock guitarist Ted Nugent, who in a fiery rant during a 2007 concert called Obama a "piece of...
- 3/9/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Aol TV.
Tonight, Daily Show host Jon Stewart promised to show viewers a tape that "they" don't want you to see, a tape that will reveal the "real" Sean Hannity, a tape that will blow all our [bleep]ing minds. Stewart just didn't see what was so radical, really, about the footage of a young Barack Obama introducing, then hugging, controversial Harvard professor Derrick Bell that Hannity had aired on his show to so much fanfare.
- 3/9/2012
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
The video of President Obama praising-- and later, hugging-- Professor Derrick Bell during his days at Harvard Law School has taken over most of today's headlines, the evidence fully released tonight on Hannity. On tonight's Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell took the positive side of that video, noting that most students of President Obama's stature on campus "sped away from controversy wherever it might erupt," and interviewing a fellow student protester on campus.
- 3/8/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
The news cycle took a radical shift this morning away from birth control and Republicans and towards racial issues and President Obama with the release of videos showing President Obama praising Professor Derrick Bell at a protest, widely considered to be the father of critical race theory. The possession of the video has already been a point of contention, as Buzzfeed released a clip of the video before Breitbart.com did-- and now, PBS notes that the video appeared in a Frontline special four years ago.
- 3/8/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
YouTube Derrick Bell
The tributes and appreciations are coming in for law professor Derrick Bell, who passed away from carcinoid cancer at 80 years old in Manhattan this week.
Bell was a proponent of critical race theory, a school of thought that, among other things, seeks to examine the way racism factors into the law. He was also the author of a number of classic books, including “Faces at the Bottom of the Well.”
Bell, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., became the...
The tributes and appreciations are coming in for law professor Derrick Bell, who passed away from carcinoid cancer at 80 years old in Manhattan this week.
Bell was a proponent of critical race theory, a school of thought that, among other things, seeks to examine the way racism factors into the law. He was also the author of a number of classic books, including “Faces at the Bottom of the Well.”
Bell, born in Pittsburgh, Pa., became the...
- 10/7/2011
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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