The Yoruba have a word–tutu–for cool. Robert Farris Thompson describes it in his book Flash of the Spirit: “As we become noble, fully realizing the spark of creative goodness God endowed us with, we find the confidence to cope with all kinds of situations. This is Ashe. This is character. This is mystic coolness. All […]
Last month Kevin-Prince Boateng, the AC Milan midfielder and Ghana international, promised that if his team won Italy’s Serie A, he would perform a Michael Jackson dance routine in full costume in front of the club’s thousands of fans. This weekend the club did just that and post-match Boateng kept his promise. Then an Italian […]
Photographer Henry Leutwyler‘s images of artifacts from Michael Jackson’s Neverland estate–the place where Jackson lived and chose to “model his private life on Peter Pan and the Lost Boys“–is worth checking out online. (It’s also on display if you are in L.A.)
A busy week on the personal front (more on that another time) so that means a lot of stuff gets the speed blog treatment. * First up, a link to the “Parts of Africa” hip hop mix: Fourteen tracks including music by Abass Abass, Da Brains and Daara J. [Link]
Jesse Jackson, whose brand of black politics has quickly become outdated with the emergence of Barack Obama, was in the news recently after he was crowned a prince in Cote d’Ivoire. Because the Agne had crown the recently deceased (murdered?) Michael Jackson in 1992, much of the coverage of the event, like the one above, […]
