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1 month ago | 
altaonline.com | Ishmael Reed
From the collapse of Black media to tokenism in publishing, Ishmael Reed explains why he writes—and why challenging America’s narrow narrative still matters.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
elpais.com | Ishmael Reed
“Últimamente, los periodistas se preguntan qué van a decir sus jefes si son demasiado duros con alguien próximo a Trump. (...) ¿Se enfadarán con ellos, porque están preocupados por cómo esos medios sobrevivirán en un entorno empresarial bajo el nuevo presidente? El problema con la prensa tradicional es que ya no hay una separación entre los reporteros y la gente que lleva el negocio”. Don Lemon, exlocutor de la CNN.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
The headline of my novel, Mumbo Jumbo, is that something about Black Culture causes mass hysteria in America, whether it be Ragtime’s animal dances, Rock and Roll, which Zora Neale Hurston cited in 1942, or Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, against which Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia campaigned. The current cultural Bogeyman is something called Woke, which is invoked by those with difficulty defining the concept.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ishmael Reed
2 hours agoSerena Williams breaks silence on skin bleaching claimsSerena Williams is speaking out on rumors about her bleaching her skin. The tennis star has been accused of looking lighter in recent photos. Serena …12 hours agoYou Won't Believe the Reason L.A. Airplane Karen Gave For Her Viral Racist BehaviorThe woman in the video has been identified as 64-year-old Arlene Bunch. Last month, an airplane Karen was caught on camera on a United Airlines …
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
To woo Generation Z, The New York Times has become an adjunct to Ticketmaster in promoting Hip Hop. As a result, Hip Hoppers have been elevated over traditional Civil Rights spokespersons. This is the newspaper that offered accused predator P’Diddy as a role model.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed: I’ve been reading these jazz biographies, where aspiring jazz musicians go to a concert and they see some great performer, and they either want an instrument like the one they have, or they want to imitate them. Now, when you were a child, did you ever go to some concert where you saw a great dancer and that inspired you? Carla Blank: Oh, absolutely. Of course, Martha Graham. She was a great influence on my life and on my development as a dancer.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
ilgiornale.it | Ishmael Reed
«Per prima parlò la moglie. È un'idea mia e del mio tesoro. Con le notizie che arrivano da Wuhan, abbiamo pensato di leggere dei classici della letteratura che riguardassero le epidemie del passato il Decameron del Boccaccio, insieme a Chaucer, Shakespeare e Defoe e approfittarne per fare conoscenza. Rivolgendosi al compagno, domandò: Tesoro, volevi dire qualcosa anche tu?
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
I had a cordial exchange with a Times columnist. The exchange ended when I asked her whether the Times would ever provide a platform for Black intellectuals to respond to her and her Neo-Con colleague’s constant sniping at Black individuals and institutions. Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, and Nicholas Kristof’s tirades against liberalism always feature an anecdote about a Black individual or institution messing up.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
To be a Trump Republican is to live in a horror film. Fears abound. The fear of immigrants, the fear of Woke (a euphemism for Black culture), a fear of books, a fear of cat ladies, a fear of being replaced, a fear of George Soros, and now Anthropophagophobia, the fear of being eaten. In two books that are required reading for far-righters–The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce, a physicist who used the pen name Andrew Macdonald, and Unhumans by Jack Posobiec–Blacks commit cannibalism.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Ishmael Reed
“Trump is arguably the first bona fide media-created presidential nominee. Although he subsequently tapped a political nerve, journalists fueled his launch.” This was the conclusion of The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, a Harvard Kennedy School research center that wrote about the 2016 contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The media are fueling his candidacy again.
