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11.28.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUESTS: Baratunde Thurston, Dr. Christopher Bell, AfroNerd, Field Negro
Co-Hosts: Rod Amis & Christina Shideler
28 November, 2007 Wednesday) 03:00 p.m. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
BARATUNDE THURSTON: From the moment he greets the crowd, Baratunde is unforgettable. "My full name is Baratunde Rafiq Thurston. Baratunde is a Nigerian name meaning 'one with no nickname.' Rafiq is an Arabic name meaning 'really, no nickname.' And Thurston is a British name meaning 'property of Massa Thurston.' It's ok if you weren't expecting that last one. Neither were we."
From here, this Harvard Philosophy graduate takes his audiences on a journey through the absurd world of American politics, media and pop culture, having turned his astute political awareness into a rising career in sharp and entertaining comedy where nothing is sacred.
When so many Americans get their news from Fox, when someone like Ann Coulter can get published, and when a black man with an afro still can't walk down the street without white people touching it, it's time to call on this comedian, author and self-described "vigilante pundit."
Baratunde has been nominated for the Bill Hicks Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, featured in the New York Underground Comedy Festival and declared a Champion of the First Amendment by Iowa State University. He has appeared in media outlets such as C-SPAN, The Washington Times, public radio and Fox News Boston. He performs regularly in New York and Boston and is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Thank You Congressional Pages, For Being So Damn Sexy.
If you are a fan of Al Franken, Jon Stewart or the Bill of Rights, you will love Baratunde Thurston. He is not just an alternative to mainstream media. He's an antidote.
DR. CHRISTOPHER BELL: Says of himself: I will introduce myself by saying; I am a Black man, a poet, an essayist, an educationist, a novelist, a retired army Major, a Doctor of Education (ED.D.), and a Unitarian Universalist.
In a longer version of an introduction, I'd say to you that I am Christopher C. Bell, Jr., a Black man, and I was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, when racial segregation was the law of the land. How much I was hurt by the racial discrimination I faced as a young man, I don't really know, but I do know it didn't help me. In any event, I dodged most teen-age hazards that befell many young Black men of my day and went off to college, Virginia State University. I graduated with a degree in chemistry and a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S Army, and with no idea as to what I wanted to be or do as my life's work.
While in the army, I served in France (twice), Korea (twice), Germany, Vietnam, and Ethiopia. My military assignments opened to me vistas of sensitivity to and awareness of other cultures that jarred my "Made in America Mind." And so, in my early twenties I began stepping to a cadence that was different from most of my colleagues, but not so different as to cause me concern. I was moved to try to write. I did so partly to not to lose available spare time and to clear my mind. My writings were attempts at fiction (novels) and poetry.
After military retirement, I earned a Doctorate (ED.D.) from Boston University's Graduate School of Education. I served in the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, DC., and as a Program Coordinator in the District of Columbia Public School System. In the District of Columbia schools, I became an educationist: a front line observer and student of the relationship between high school student behavior, school's academic structures and the community cultural ecology. And all the while I kept studying, and writing, and rewriting.
"FIELD NEGRO": Wayne Merton Donahue Bennett was born in Jamaica, West Indies to Doctors Harold and Merle Bennett and he is the younger of two children. His sister is Doctor V. Melody Bennett-Gayle a Fulbright Scholar and renowned Jamaican educator.
Mr. Bennett attended the prestigious West Indies Academy where he studied political science and history. After high school, he received both an athletic and an academic scholarship to attend various colleges in the United States. He chose to attend Oakwood College, a Seventh Day Adventist liberal arts college in Alabama.
Mr. Bennett went on to graduate with honors and received a Bachelors Degree in business and political science from Oakwood College. While in college he helped to start the Extended Education Center for child abuse and neglect which was the first of its kind in the state of Alabama.
Mr. Bennett went on to attend Southern University School of Law in Baton Rouge Louisiana. And while there, he was mentored by civil rights icon Dr. Jessie Stone Jr., who saw him obtain a Jurist Doctorate Degree with honors while participating in various law school activities. Mr. Bennett was co-editor of the school's paper "The Public Defender", and was a member of the law school's award winning moot court team. Mr. Bennett was also Vice President of the Student Bar Association. While in law school, Mr. Bennett also participated in the comparative law program with the Norman Manley school of Law in Kingston Jamaica.
After law school, Mr. Bennett attended the Louisiana Poli tical Training Institute, and lobbied on behalf of urban affairs in Louisiana while working for the law firm of Clayton and Associates in Port Allen, Louisiana.
Mr. Bennett arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993 to work as a prosecutor in domestic relations.
After just a few years he started working as a court administrator in the Domestic Relations Section of Philadelphia Family Court, Mr. Bennett managed the client services unit of the courts. His job there was to create easier access to the courts for the public at large, and to improve the court's community outreach efforts. He was also charged with coordinating and implementing cooperative agreements between the courts and various public agencies and charities.
Mr. Bennett currently serves as the court's Special Master in support. His job is to work with the court's enforcement compliance units to collect the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of outstanding arrears owed to custodial parents.
Mr. Bennett has written and published various articles on child support and children's issues. His writings and letters have appeared in publications such as USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, and The Philadelphia Tribune.
Mr. Bennett is currently involved with various community groups such as Philadelphia Reads, Boys and Girls Club of Philadelphia, and the Police Athletic League. He also presently serves as a volunteer attorney for the Democratic City Committee.
Mr. Bennett currently serves on various boards, and is a member of the Domestic Relations Association of Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Bar Association, The Mid Atlantic Courts' Management Council, and The American Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Bennett has a private legal practice where he specializes in criminal matters.
Mr. Bennett's current passion is blogging; where he blogs under his alter ego, the "Field Negro".
AFRONERD: Is also a Blogger who says his mission it to "debunk the ghetto-ized" image of African-Americans and defend the Black bourgeoisie. He is also a Host here at BlogTalkRadio.com.
11.19.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUEST: Tom Parish
19 November, 2007 (Monday) 10:00 a.m. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
TOM PARISH: Tom Parish founded a specialist social media advisory consultancy, Tom Parish Inc., more than 2 years ago for corporations considering the use of social media systems and related business strategies. It advises boards on how to design flexible strategic approaches, manage the social media process and create benchmarks. Social media includes consumer-generated media, business blogs, multi-media (audio and video) used in viral marketing and RSS technology for easily distributing all forms of media globally on portable and non-portable devices.
Tom began working with the Internet in its infancy while employed by a spin-off from MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1983. (Tom graduated from TAMU with a BSEE in 1976). He has been intimately involved with the intertwined evolution of the web and business in the last two decades. During his multi-year tenure at the Micro Electronics and Computer Technology (MCC) consortium, he continued his research, developing marketing support strategies for pre-competitive technology in holographic storage, fuzzy logic and neural network systems. Tom authored an article in Popular Science on the future of holographic storage. In addition to his 13 years as a highly respected engineer and engineering manager, Tom also has 12 years as a top performer in sales at high-tech companies.
11.12.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUEST: Robert Jensen
012 November, 2007 (Monday) 10:00 a.m. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
ROBERT JENSEN: Robert Jensen is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. At UT, Jensen teaches courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He also is director of the Senior Fellows Program, the honors program of the College of Communication.
In his research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men's violence. In more recent work, he has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism.
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In addition to teaching and research, Jensen writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics, and race have appeared in papers around the country. He also is involved in a number of activist groups working against U.S. military and economic domination of the rest of the world.
Jensen is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002); co-author with Gail Dines and Ann Russo of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998); and co-editor with David S. Allen of Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (New York University Press, 1995).
11.09.07 BLOGTALKRADIO
GUEST: Robin "roblimo" Miller
09 November, 2007 (Friday) 10:00 a.m. CST
LISTENER CALL-IN: 646-595-3863
ROBIN "roblimo" MILLER: Robin Miller is best known as Editor-in-Chief at SourceForge, Inc. pubishers of Slashdot.org, Linux.com, Newforge.com, and ITManagersJournal.com.
He has written for Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Time New Media, Online Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, and many other Web sites, newspapers, and magazines.
He is one of the creators of modern interactive journalism and has served as an Internet business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many Internet entrepreneurs. He is the author of "The Online Rules of Successful Companies" (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2002), "Point & Click Linux" (Prentice Hall, 2004), and "Point & Click OpenOffice.org" (Prentice Hall, 2005).
Before becoming a full-time writer and editor, Miller operated a small limousine service in the Baltimore/Washington area an d wrote freelance part-time. "I never intended to make writing and editing a full-time profession," he says. "It was purely accidental. There are many talented editors and writers out of work who could easily replace me."
Perhaps this is true, but we feel he is being too modest. Few journalists have covered Linux and Open Source as long or as deeply as Miller, and none have done more research on how software entrepreneurs can use Open Source and Free Software to build profitable businesses.
When speaking, Miller believes in complete interactivity. If you want to interrupt and ask him to focus more on a particular topic, he says, "Go right ahead. Dialogs are always better than monologs." He has spoken to both small groups around conference tables and in large halls to as many as 2000 people, both directly in English and, through translators, to speakers of at least half a dozen other languages.
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