Monday Video Roundup

February 18th, 2013 by Arturo

Oprah and Beyonce: I haven’t gotten a chance to watch the new Beyonce documentary, Life Is But A Dream, but the Twitter chatter surrounding her interview with Oprah Winfrey was interesting to watch. (To say nothing of the pushback Jezebel got when it suggested Beyonce was selling herself short when she gushed about her relationship with husband Jay-Z.)

Beyonce | Next Chapter (FULL EPISODE) by Ashley_Miller_3

From people knocking Winfrey for not bringing more out of Beyonce in the interview to others suggesting Beyonce was intentionally omitting race, the reaction so far seems to be mixed. Your take, Racializens?

Melissa Harris-Perry on Obama’s Chicago speech: Speaking of Twitter, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry invited some criticism of her own when she remarked that President Barack Obama’s mentioning of parenthood during his recent gun violence speech in Chicago put us “smack in the middle of the president’s daddy issues.”

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Bonus: Kai Davis and Safiya Washington take on Hipster Racism

Friend of the blog Rania Khalek shared this on Sunday and it’s well worth checking out: Davis (left) and Washington’s (right) performance from last year’s semifinals at the Brave New Voices festival last year, in which the duo, part of the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement, break it all the way down on hipster racism. Just sit back and enjoy.

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  • http://www.cocojams.com Azizi Powell

    Here’s a link to a post that I edited about the Harlem Shake:
    http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-origins-several-examples-of-harlem.htmlThe Harlem Shake (Origins, Old School Examples, & Internet Meme)

    It’s often written online that the modern day (1980s, 2001) Harlem Shake was inspired by an Ethiopian traditional dance called the Eskista. But while those two dances resemble each other, I think it’s more likely that some people made up that story because they recognized the similarities between the shoulder movements of the Eskista and the shoulder movements of the Harlem Shake (which was first known as “the albee”). Actually, Al B, the alleged originator of the Harlem Shake , circulated two stories about how he made up that dance: 1. This was how alcholics moved. & 2. This was how Egyptian mummies moved when they danced.

    That said, I agree that besides the name of the “dances”, the “new Harlem Shake” has nothing really to do with the old Harlem Shake, or the 2006 Chicken Noodle Soup dance that was based on that early African American originated dance.

  • JANE LANE

    I saw that Twin Peaks Harlem Sake video and was wondering where the Harlem Shake was, but I thought maybe there was something new I hadn’t seen yet. Good to know there wasn’t.