Wed, 28 January 2009 I'll let you have the bling bling Obama hoodies and pretzels, but hot sauce, its going to far. Why is everybody questioning Obama's race. Pick a gene that you like and run with it, that part of him is just like you. Then we can all be happy. africanamericanpodcast.libsyn.com/rss  Direct download: 090125Controversies_of_the_race_of_our_new_President_WHY_and_No_More_Jive_Talk.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:45 PM |
Wed, 28 January 2009 
12 Hours of Hope - I left the house at 230am and arrived back home 12 joyous hours later.
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Mon, 19 January 2009  I was a part of history yesterday. I arrived at the Smithsonian Metro stop and got up onto the Mall in DC, not too far from the base of the Washington Monument just as Jack Black was addressing the audience. People were just hanging around as if nothing was going on, but I could see a migration of part of the audience towards the Lincoln Memorial which was where the stage was. I found this live blog on USAToday's site, it breaks down everything that happened when it happened. The crowd went beserko everytime they showed Barack Obama in the audience. We Were One, it was so beautiful seeing the racial make-up off the crowd. All ages and colors, coming together for one common cause.   I found these pictures on Flickr, awesome. Start at the bottom, we missed alot in that first hour, but it started right on time, Denzel was on while I was at my car, its all good, just glad I went. Nobody really paying attention anyway until Barack spoke. I'm just happy to say I went. Update at 5:35 p.m. ET: Before we go, though, we should note that the crowd was estimated at 400,000 and that there's a USA TODAY staff story about the concert here. Update at 4:26 p.m. ET. The concert has concluded. The Obamas and Bidens are on stage shaking hands and thanking the performers. Thanks for reading along. Scroll down to the bottom and read "up" if you missed anything or just want to see how it all played out. Update at 4:24 p.m. ET. Beyonce: Show closer? Beyonce is on to sing America the Beautiful. And it looks like most of the performers are joining her on stage. Update at 4:17 p.m. ET.This Land is Your Land: Springsteen, with folk legend Pete Seeger, is back to sing Woody Guthrie's This Land is Your Land. Update at 4:16 p.m. ET. Obama asks nation to do what's right "when the moment is hard." At the conclusion of his remarks, the president-elect said:
(Photo of the president-elect by H. Darr Beiser of USA TODAY.) Update at 4:13 p.m. ET. Obama says it won't be easy. From the remarks the president-elect is making right now:
Update at 4:09 p.m. ET. Obama: The president-elect is stepping to the microphone. Huge roar. His staff just released the text of his remarks, as prepared for delivery. It's posted here. Update at 4:08 p.m. ET: Challenger, a bald eagle from the American Eagle Foundation, has been brought on.  Update at 4:02 p.m. ET: Let freedom ring!As U2 finishes Pride, Bono shouts "let freedom ring!" and tells Obama that it's an honor for "four boys from Dublin" to sing for him. That leads the band into City of Blinding Lights, a song often heard at Obama rallies last year and known for it's crowd-pleasing "oh, you look so beautiful tonight" line. (Photo: U2's The Edge -- on guitar -- and Bono. By Justin Sullivan of Getty Images.) Update at 3:58 p.m. ET: U2! Samuel L. Jackson speaks of Martin Luther King Jr. and the speech he gave at the Lincoln Memorial and that leads to Irish rockers U2 -- arguably the world's biggest band -- playing their tribute to Dr. King Pride (In the Name of Love). Fans may recall that this isn't the first time U2's lead singer, Bono, has performed at the memorial. He was there at the turn of millennium concert. Update at 3:54 p.m. ET: Things just got even cooler. Actor Samuel L. Jackson is at the microphone, reminding the crowd of what Rosa Parks did when she refused to go to the back of the bus. Update at 3:52 p.m. ET: As Higher Ground continues, the Obama and Biden families are on their feet to clap along -- and it looks like Malia is taking some more pictures.  (Photo of Sasha, left, and Malia by Mandel Ngan of AFP/Getty Images. Correction: Earlier we reversed the girl's identifications.) Update at 3:50 p.m. ET: Actors Ashley Judd and Forest Whitaker are on to talk about the importance of poets, writers and other artists in our society. That leads to Usher and Shakira taking the stage -- with Stevie Wonder on keyboards -- to perform Higher Ground. Update at 3:42 p.m. ET: Nope, Brooks did just two minutes of American Pie and now he's got the crowd jumping along to the Isley Brothers' Shout! Update at 3:40 p.m. ET: Talk of preserving the land and environment leads to country's Garth Brooks coming on to sing Don McLean's American Pie. Question: Will he do all eight and a half minutes? Update at 3:38 p.m. ET: Actors Jack Black and Rosario Dawson are paying tribute to president Theodore Roosevelt and his efforts to protect the nation's lands. Update at 3:34 p.m. ET: The normally non-political golf great Tiger Woods is talking about a subject he takes very personally -- the military. His father served in the Special Forces. "I am a son of a man who dedicated his life to his country, his family and the military," Woods says, "and I am better for it." He introduces the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club, which is on stage with opera singer Renee Fleming to perform Rodgers & Hammerstein's You'll Never Walk Alone. Update at 3:28 p.m. ET. A mix of musical genres: Will.i.am, Herbie Hancock and Sheryl Crow are doing Bob Marley's One Love (Let's Get Together). Update at 3:27 p.m. ET: Actors/comedians Kal Penn and George Lopez are talking about the nation's diversity. And it looks like Malia Obama just took a few snapshots from her vantage point. Update at 3:23 p.m. ET: Josh Groban and Heather Headley are singing My Country, 'tis of Thee. Update at 3:20 p.m. ET:Queen Latifah is talking about the great American artists who have performed at the mall, including opera's Marian Anderson -- an African-American invited by then first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to sing there at a time when she could not perform in many places across the nation because of her race. Update at 3:19 p.m. ET: The backdrop behind John Mellencamp has opened up to reveal a choir that's now backing him up on Pink Houses. Update at 3:15 p.m. ET. Heartland time: John Mellencamp is on to sing Pink Houses. It looks like the crowd is into it. Update at 3:14 p.m. ET: Biden is at the microphone, talking about the dignity of work. The memorials in Washington, he says, were "all built, stone by stone, by American men and women. And let me tell you, we owe them." Update at 3:08 p.m. ET: A bipartisan moment. Actress Marisa Tomei quotes from Republican president Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address. That leads to James Taylor, who's performing Shower the People with singers John Legend and Jennifer Nettles. Update at 3:05 p.m. ET: Tom Hanks is continuing the tribute to Lincoln. "Lincoln was a quiet man," Hanks says, "but when he spoke of democracy this is what he said -- 'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.' " Update at 3 p.m. ET: Actor Tom Hanks is paying tribute to Abraham Lincoln.  Update at 2:57 p.m. ET: Singers Bettye LaVette and Jon Bon Jovi are doing A Change is Gonna Come.(Photo, right: By Jason Reed of Reuters.) Update at 2:53 p.m. ET: Funny men Steve Carell and Jamie Foxx are on. Foxx does a bit of an Obama impersonation when he uses words said by the president-elect on election night to put the election of the nation's first African-American president in perspective: "If there's anyone who still doubts that America is not a place where all things are possible, tonight is your answer," Foxx says in his Obama voice -- to laughter from the crowd and the president elect. Update at 2:50 p.m. ET: John F. Kennedy's "ask not" Inaugural Address gets its due with a video clip (introduced by Martin Luther King III), and then Mary J. Blige comes on to sing Lean On Me. Update at 2:46 p.m. ET: A standing ovation for the Boss from the president-elect and Michelle Obama. Now, actress Laura Linney is introducing a video about president Franklin Roosevelt.  Update at 2:40 p.m. ET: BRUCE! ... As in Bruce Springsteen. ... Backed by a choir, he's playing a song used often by Obama's presidential campaign -- The Rising.(Photo of Springsteen by Mandel Ngan of AFP/Getty Images.) Update at 2:38 p.m. ET: Actor Denzel Washington is at the podium. "We are all in this together," he says, which is why the name of the ceremony is just "three simple words ... we are one." Update at 2:36 p.m. ET: Everybody's up for the National Anthem. Update at 2:34 p.m. ET: The Bidens and Obamas are on stage. Looks like they're sitting in a protected (and maybe heated?) booth just below where the stage has been set up on the Memorial  (Photo of the president-elect and Michelle Obama arriving at the concert by H. Darr Beiser of USA TODAY.) Direct download: Live_at_the_We_Are_One_Barack_Obama_Inauguration_Concert_Jan_18_2009_at_the_Lincoln_Memorial_-_Girl600.com_Podcast.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:30 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 16 January 2009
Janis Krums took this photo. @jkrums on Twitter. It was the first picture taken at the sight, with an iPhone no less! (Flickr.com Description)
I decided to record a show while driving thru Washington DC. Look out for potholes!!!!
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Fri, 16 January 2009  WTOP radio has been so negative everyday about the inauguration, that I have decided to go. You can listen yourself on iTunes radio or on their website. The worse coverage seems to go on during the morning rush. Here's why, we have to listen to them to get Traffic and Weather together on the 8's. They do good traffic coverage and I'm actually addicted to the station's new coverage. 
This morning I learned that I should bring my own toilet tissue, oh and the metro rail system may collapse under the strain of so many riders. Then, the Question of the Day is whether or not the all of the negative press is scaring you away from the inauguration. Oh, then one commentator, talks about how he hopes the Jumbotrons don't freeze and break down and how bad that would be if we all went down there and the screens didn't work. Oh, in the same sentence came a little positive information. You can listen to the Swearing In on a handheld radio. On what station, you ask? WTOP, of course. Are you going to DC on Jan 20th? Show 1 of 2009.
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