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norman kelley
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- Bio
- Norman Kelley is an independent journalist, author, and former segment radio producer at WBAI 99.5 FM Pacifica Radio.
He has written for Society, L A Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, The Nation, New York Press, Newsday, Word.com, The Black Star News, New Politics, Black Renaissance/Noir, and The Bedford Stuyvesant Current.
He is also the author of the "noir soul"/ mystery series that features "Nina Halligan" in Black Heat (Amistad), The Big Mango (Akashic Books), and A Phat Death (2003).
Norman Kelley was also a contributing writer to Brooklyn Noir (Akashic Books, 2004) and DC Noir (Akashic Books, 2006) and Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium (Random House 2000). He edited and contributed to R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music (Akashic Books, 2005; 2002).
MY RECENT POSTS
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March 29, 2012 11:52AM - Obama doesn't Care About
Christians? Sez Graham
February 21, 2012 04:58PM - Romney Fires Aide Who Brought
Him Back From Death
February 04, 2012 11:00PM - The Little Girls Understand:
Your Daughters & Porn
February 03, 2012 10:13PM - NBC's Chuck Todd vs. MSNBC's
Morning Joe
January 20, 2012 05:31PM
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March 29, 2012 02:24PM - “Hmm, the man's a law
professor by training. How
could he not
read? Oh, you
mean h…”
August 24, 2011 06:29PM - “Thanks, Dan!”
February 10, 2011 05:46PM - “That's for you to
determine, Stellaa.”
January 22, 2010 04:58PM - “Said Tom
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"Having
actually read The Audacity of
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The Charlie Project Needs Your Help!
Using Kickstarter crowdsource fundraising, The Charlie Project's goal is a 30-minute documentary film about Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly. "How Really Works: The Life and Times of Charlie Peter" is a story about a man, a magazine, and the media.
The Charlie Project nee… Read full post »
Obama doesn't Care About Christians? Sez Graham
According to Franklin Graham, Obama is more concerned about Muslims than Christians.
"All I know is under Obama, President Obama, the Muslims of the world, he seems to be more concerned about them than the Christians that are being murdered in the Muslim countries," he said.
Wel, I… Read full post »
Romney Fires Aide Who Brought Him Back From Death
Never let a good deed go unpunished. Romney, according to the Politico, canned a guy who assisted him in besting Newt Gingrich in the Florida debate.
Well, he did say that he liked to fire people. However, one would have thought he'd dispense with those whom provided him with b… Read full post »
The Little Girls Understand: Your Daughters & Porn
That's right, Mr and Ms. America, your female child may have a budding sexuality (we all know what insatiable beasts boys are) and they may be picking up bad habits from that $13 billion American industry: pornography.
What was once thought the provnance of the male libido is now being picked… Read full post »
NBC's Chuck Todd vs. MSNBC's Morning Joe
Contrast and compare NBC's Chuck Todd complaining about Stephen Colbert while MSNBC's "Morning Joe" team hosted him in South Carolina.
It's interesting how reporters like Todd, NBC's White House correspondent, allow politicians to get away with a bounty of lies and half truths, and then tak… Read full post »
The Epitome of Neo-racism: Newt Gingrich
Nothing better exemplifies what I have often called neo-racism than Charles Blow's take on Newt Gingrich's talking points in South Carolina:
They [Republicans] also underscore the fact that a clever politician like Gingrich, who understands this cleavage and knows how to exploit it in subtle a… Read full post »
Live From Niggerhead! Pussy-whipped Journalism
What can be said of American political culture, of current American journalism, when reporters are so politically correct that they can’t even use the title of the camp that Gov. Rick Perry’s family owned in legitimate news reports?
Rachel Maddow, while speaking to the ever lovely comed… Read full post »
The 99% Anthem: "This Land is Your Land"
The 99% movement needs to crystalize its ideas in a basic simple
song. I suggest an American classic: THIS LAND IS YOUR
LAND
words and music by Woody Guthrie
Chorus:
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream water… Read full post »
Predator Drone Strikes on Wall Street Banskters! Yowza!
The Rude Pundit's alternative to occupying Wall Street: Predator drone strikes on Wall Street financial executives who had their hands in undermining the economy. Of course, to avoid collateral damage to the other 99%, one would have to wait until the banksters and their ilk g… Read full post »
A Pot of Cain Calling a Kettle of Perry Black!
Wow, look at Mr. Herman "Blacks Are Brainwashed" Cain calling Rick "Niggerhead" Perry "insensitive" on a network that's so concerned about the welfare of its fellow Americans-- if they are in the correct tax bracket or have the right skin pigmentation, mind you.
You can tell it's election seas… Read full post »
The Post's "Niggerhead" article Is Missing the Photo
The Washington Post published a story that Gov. Rick Perry owns a piece of land that bears the name "Niggerhead."
The story appears "solid," so claims Media's Tommy Christopher, but look at the tail of end of the piece:
In the photos, it was to the left of the gate. It… Read full post »
Carl Bernstein on Hacking, Murdoch, and Journalism
Obama's Chutzpah Performance Before the CBC
Watching Obama telling the Black Congressional Caucus to stop its bellyachin' has got to be one of the greatest chutzpah performances of all time.
Here's a guy who even cratered his own accomplishments by being the master of pre-emptive compromise, yet he's going to get an attitude that black electe… Read full post »
Telling Obama to Politely Go Fuck Himself
I received an email from Obama for America asking me to organize for the man of steel in DC (a town he won't actively support for statehood).
This is what I wrote:
"Dear Jeremy Bird:
No. I will not organize for Mr. Obama. As president he's become a
liability… Read full post »
Presidential Book Monitoring: the New Book Burning
As bad as book burning is, presidential book monitoring, as practiced by the left and right, is just as odious. In the past few days Salon has featured either articles or postings regarding complaints by what Obama is and isn't reading on his vacation. He's battered because he isn't… Read full post »
"How Washington Really Works" A film about man & a magazine
This is a film I'm working on, which can be seen on YouTube:
"How Washington Really Works: The Life and Times of Charlie Peters" or
at the Charlie Project. Read full post »
Do You Notice That You're Black All the Time?
Interesting exchange, according to Slate.com, between NPR's Michel Martin and Tina Fey:
Tina Fey seemed a little uncomfortable last night. The comedian was on the third stop of a promotional tour for her new memoir, Bossypants, and NPR's Michel Martin was asking her about race. … Read full post »
Hillary Clinton Plugs Aljazeera: "Real News"
Mubarak: King of the Kleptocracies?
It's bad enough that Mubarak won't take his boot off his people's neck, but he also wears a very expensive one while doing so.
According to Juan Cole, he has a personal fortune of $70 billion dollars!
Referring to Wael Ghonim's reasons for wanting to unseat pharoah, Cole wrote:
He… Read full post »
Shocking Bankster Behavior Suprises Obama
If one read the September 6 edition of Newsweek, the "Obama's Old Deal" article, by Micheal Hirsh, may explain why Barack Obama, although the president of the United States, is not a leader. He was actually surprised that the banks after having their bacon saved went back to their old ways:… Read full post »
Politico's Kind of Affirmative Action
We generally know how mostly white the media is, right? Of course, they love to talk about race and make an issue of it when covering the political class and the masses.
But look at Politico's program of racial and gender diversity. Isn't Politico the new breed of journalism? How… Read full post »
This is How They Recruit for the GAY Agenda
Don't be surprised if you seen this as "Exhibit A" in how Same-Sexers brainwash children in accepting gay marriage.
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The "Al-Qaeda 7" versus the Gitmo 3 (aka dead terrorists)
It's intersting that the public may have heard of the "al-Qaeda 7" lawyers who work in the "Dept. of Jihad":
More Home-Grown Terrorism? Don't Bet on it
The recent Pentagon shooting will not be labelled as a terrorist attack on the government, just as the plane crash into an IRS building wasn't seen as such.
People like John Patrick Bedell aren't terrorist; they're just worked up Big Government extremism.
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