An excerpt from this article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/12/14/campus-rape-uva-crisis-rolling-stone-politics-column/20397277/ Americans have been living through an enormously sensationalized college rape hoax, but as the evidence accumulates it’s becoming clear that the entire thing was just a bunch of media hype and political opportunism. No, I’m not talking about the Rolling Stone’s lurid and now-exploded fraternity gang-rape story. Whatever the…
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An excerpt: DENVER — LATELY, people have been bombarded with the notion that universities and colleges are hotbeds of sexual violence. Parents fear that sending their teenagers to school is equivalent to shipping them off to be sexually victimized. But the truth is, young women who don’t go to college are more likely to be…
Read moreBroadway comes to Frenchmen Street for HBO filming of ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’
As the Tony Awards have already recognized, Audra McDonald is stunning in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” which re-creates a late-1950s performance by Billie Holiday at a small Philadelphia club. Thursday (Dec. 18) afternoon in the former Café Brasil, an audience of about 50 – some privately invited, some paid actors – got…
Read moreDefining nearly all sex as rape
An excerpt from this article: http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/defining-nearly-all-sex-as-rape/article/2557530 California’s “yes means yes” law turns the idea of sexual consent upside down. Suddenly, nearly all sex is rape, unless no person involved reports it as such. Consent, under the California law that is spreading to other American universities, is required to be “ongoing throughout a sexual activity and…
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Here are some highlights from the last show I was in a few months ago. I had so much fun playing this show. I can’t wait for the movie to be released. Yessir!!! We are shooting a movie of the show in New Orleans in a few weeks in New Orleans. Stay tuned!
Read moreWhat do Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Bill Cosby and this man have in common? “Responsi-damn-bility.”
I’ll tell you what Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Bill Cosby, Frederick Wilson II and Clayton Craddock all have in common….the message of taking personal responsibility for your actions. Or, as my man in the video below said, “responsi-damn-bility.” I hope more people can hear this message, again, because it seems to have been repeated…
Read moreCameo – Cameosis (Live 1980)
Easily one of my all-time favorite bands. It’s too bad I never had the chance to see this version of the band. I might have seen them at a P-Funk show back in ’77 or ’78 but barely remember it. I did see them in the late 90’s in NYC at Tramps. I had a…
Read moreErin Pizzey Speaks at the Domestic Violence 2014 Symposium in Toronto
The Interview: Joni Mitchell
After reading this interview, I’m a bigger fan of hers. I’ve liked her music and voice, but her outlook on producing, the 70’s, producing, performing, feminism, empowerment and life in general is great. In a rare and wide-ranging interview spanning 90 minutes, singer-songwriter-artist Joni Mitchell spoke from her home in Los Angeles. Her latest project,…
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Jason — until recently a student at an Ivy League school under Title IX investigation that has faced intense public criticism for the way it handles sexual assault cases — met Vanessa for the first time late at night at his fraternity house last March. Jason was drunk and doesn’t remember much, but he remembers…
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