Chris Rock
Sunday, February 13th, 2011
Found Objects, No.10: “Africa” jokes
There’s something about American comedians and Africa. You’re not sure whether they’re laughing at us or with us. African-Americans comedians, in particular, always return to the subject. There’s an essay in there somewhere. I swear I once saw a notice for a talk at Columbia’s Institute for African-American Studies or NYU’s Africana Studies, on this
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
“There’s a Place in Brooklyn Where Black People Live, and It’s Nice”
Comedian Chris Rock speaking about Fort Greene, my neighborhood in Brooklyn–now heavily gentrified–in a new feature-length documentary, “”A Walk Through Fort Greene,” about the black arts movement there from the mid 1980s through the 90s. Word of...
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To Be Young, Angry and Black
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The Prisoner and his Pin-up Girl
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