eNewsletter List

Welcome to the BN-W eNewsletter distribution list!

Although this list runs from 2004 up to the present date, there are many informative links and a multitude of other “stuff” within many of the eNewsletters from the earlier issues to the recent ones.   So be sure to keep that in mind while browsing and reading material within the BN-W eNewsletters – and not base your selections strictly on how current the date is or is not.   Also remember that some links may be date/time sensitive (newspaper/magazine articles) and others have expired or no longer exist.   For those reasons, we’ve usually tried to provide some basic information about the link topics so you can do a search if necessary by using the BN-W Resource Directory.

We hope you enjoy the site - and most importantly - that you learn something new and useful.

Ban the N-Word (BN-W)

Film(s) Monitored:  Sex and the City; Get Smart; Wanted; Hancock; Meet Dave; The Dark Knight

TOPICS:   Jasiri X "Hancock" Black superhero analysis; CNN's Black In America special report; American Medical Association's admission and apology of racism and segregation in medicine for more than 100 years; JAMA report on "African American Physicians and Organized Medicine:  1846-1968:  Origins of a Racial Divide"; Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference 20th Anniversary; New Yorker magazine militant/terrorist cover of Barack and Michelle Obama; Cynthia McKinney, Rosa Clemente, and the Green Party; Jesse Jackson (FOX News), Whoopi Goldber/Sherri Shepherd (The View), and the N-word; Barack Obama and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) speech; Sumner Redstone, Shari Redstone, and Viacom (CBS, BET, MTV, Paramount); and more...

BN-W Fourth Year Anniversary

TOPICS:  Scholars John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, John G. Jackson, Joy DeGruy Leary, Adelaide Sanford, Ivan Van Sertima, Chancellor Williams; Sam Greenlee's film - "The Spook Who Sat By The Door"; KemMiou Video; H. Lewis Smith - Black America Under Siege: Without and Within; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Street Kings; Prom Night; Iron Man; Made of Honor; Redbelt

TOPICS:   Iron Man, 9/11, and the World Trade Center; Kemetamorphosis Conference at IKG Cultural Resource Center with Anthony Browder, Marimba Ani, Patricia Newton, and Nuraddan Mannan; Baruti Kafele; New York Police Department (NYPD) Stop & Frisk report and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) report on racial discrepancies in marijuana arrests in NYC; Barack Obama, bowling, and the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre in South Carolina; Hillary Clinton, West Virginia, blue-collar hard-working White Americans comment, "screw 'em" comment about working class Whites, Saturday Night Live skit (My Supporters Are Racists); Bill Clinton, insecure and scared White men comment; rape and torture victim Megan Williams of West Virginia; Obama, audio tape of the "bitter" remark, uppity Negro, and elitism; Bill Moyers on Clinton, Obama, Jeremiah Wright, John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham; Outfoxed video on Rupert Murdoch and FOX News; Alice Walker on politics, segregated libraries, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Barak H. Obama Sr. and his July 1965 essay - Problems Facing Our Socialism; Michelle Obama and her 1985 Princeton University thesis on Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community; Barbara Walters, protecting Star Jones, affair with a Black senator, and miscegenation; Israel's 60th anniversary celebration is Palestine's "nakba" - catastrophe; Israel and apartheid; Occupation 101 video; Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land video; Hillary Clinton, obliterating Iran, and Israeli's secret importation of Iranian oil; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Semi-Pro; College Road Trip; Never Back Down; Meet the Browns; Run, Fat Boy, Run; 21

TOPICS:   Theatre:  "Celia" (Celia Cruz), "Passing Strange," and Laurence Fishburne in "Thurgood" (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall); Jamese Lewis essay/speech - "Is the 'N-Word' Dead?"; Barack Obama and the race speech; Reverend Jeremiah Wright, 9/11, God Damn America, Edward Peck, and "coming home to roost"; Winter Soldier 2008 (Iraq and Afghanistan soldiers speak out); Iraq invasion/occupation - 4000 Americans soldiers killed, 1,000,000 Iraqis killed; Dick Cheney and the "So!" remark; John McCain and Reverends John Hagee, Rod Parsley, and Jerry Falwell; Harriet A. Washington, Margaret Sanger, Freedom Rider Margaret Kimberley, and Medical Apartheid; Joe Madison, Chris Matthews, Pat Robertson on Hardball; former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, the prostitution ring scandal, Tawana Brawley, and Alton Maddox; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  The Bucket List; First Sunday; Mad Money; How She Move; Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins; Jumper; Vantage Point

TOPICS:  BN-W eNewsletters/Resource Directory; Academy Award African copied statuette - Ptah; Broadway's Black version of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"; National Geographic's cover story about "The Black Pharaohs" and Anthony Browder's "Lies That Won't Go Away" analysis of some its falsehoods; Joy DeGruy Leary's "Like It Is" interview with Gil Noble; Israeli Lev Leviev, diamonds, Israeli settlements in Palestine, and human rights abuses in Africa; PBS Frontline Special: The Diamond Empire; the Israel, South Africa, United States diamond/apartheid connection; and more...

Film(s) Monitored:  Fred Claus; This Christmas; August Rush; The Perfect Holiday; I Am Legend; The Great Debaters

TOPICS:  Ptah and the origins of the Academy Awards "Oscar" statuette; Rameses II, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and the left foot forward and sitting on a square concepts; tekhens, obelisks, Central Park, and the Washington Monument; Ida B. Wells Barnett and the Lynch Law in America; CNN Investigative Special - The Noose: An American Nightmare; Kwanzaa site; Auntie Landra's Library; Cafe Urban; Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and the "race card" accusation by her fans; Bill and Hillary Clinton and the crack/powder cocaine jail sentences; Kemba Smith; Deborah Small; the Sentencing Project; New York Police Department (NYPD) and the Rand 2006 Stop & Frisk Report; Pew Research Center reports on Blacks; Amy Winehouse and Rehab; Anti-Defamation League's Survey on attitudes about Jews; Israeli/Palestinian Annapolis, Maryland peace summit; and more...