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- Ernest Hardy
- My work has appeared in LA Weekly, LA Times, NY Times, Vibe, Rolling Stone, Millennium Film Journal, Flaunt, and more. I contributed to the reference books "1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die" and "Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide," and have written liner notes for "Chuck D Presents: Louder Than a Bomb;" box-set "Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America," as well as anthologies by Curtis Mayfield, Chet Baker, Luther Vandross, the Jacksons and Teddy Pendergrass. A Sundance Fellow, I've sat as a juror for the Sundance Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Los Angeles Outfest, and co-programmed the FUSION Film Festival in LA. Blood Beats Vol. 1, my collection of criticism (interviews / reviews / essays), was published by Red Bone Press in April 2006; it won the PEN/Beyond Margins award in 2007. Blood Beats Vol. 2 was published February 2008. I'm co-editor of the literary anthology War Diaries, which will be published by APLA in summer 2009. I've lectured or appeared on panels at Princeton, Columbia, DePaul, USC and more.
4 comments:
Fly!!!
Odd that you should post this the same day this story broke:
http://www.slate.com/id/2227090/
Actually, Soulbrotha, I was perhaps too minimalist for my own good. I posted that clip precisely because the Slate story had broken and it seemed that the controversy was all over the net. I wanted to post that clip and just have it stand on its own. But as I wrote on Facebook when the controversy broke, and as this very old clip shows, the "Roxanne Gets Her Degree on the Label's Dime" story was already old news a few weeks ago when it was "broken" by the Daily News and then blogged & tweeted about all over the place. I'm still very curious what made it "newsworthy" after Roxanne herself had been working the lie-myth-lie for so many years. I see now I should have probably written at least a few words instead of just posting up the clip.
Ok. I thought that might have been the case because you don miss a (blood) beat! :)
I have to tell you that this really pissed me off. I was so proud of her when I first saw that clip a year ago. Damn, Roxanne.
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