Best joke I've heard over the past few years is one phrase:

"Colin Powell-- The Other White Meat."

As the educated or middle class has become integrated, whatever
movement there was is significantly diluted.

Most recently, the work of Malik Raheem in New Orleans shows
what long term activism is about: community building and
infrastructure in the form of clinics and other services.

Angela Davis is a professor some place. So is Ishmael Reed.

But it takes someone like Dyson who is a "power talker" in the
sense of old line pre-television smoothe politicians who gives
an actual boots on the ground message to those of us in the
under class. And, I count myself as one of them.

Everything I know about Jack Kerouac I learned from Steve Allen.
Steve Allen made a documentary about him. What is more interesting
to me is the fact that John Cassavetes old tv show called
Johnny Staccato has been recently made into a film festival.
I don't know if dvd production of that will take place, but
it's certainly more signifcant than The Dick Van Dyke Show.

I think this thread is about nostalgia. I really have no nostalgia
for 'the good old days.' But in those old days there are
a few things worth remembering which I call my "personal oral
history." I mainly talk about that.

If I recall correctly, "This Is Madness" was the last composition
by the Last Poets as a group. "This Is Madness" was about bad drug trips. That just about says it all.