Updating: Two Half-Hour Shows to Air Over Weekend
BET News announced Friday that two specials on entertainer James Brown, who died on Christmas, will air over the weekend. The Web site of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, meanwhile, plans to video stream live coverage of Brown’s funeral at 1 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday. BET.com’s Webcast of the funeral remains online. And on YouTube, viewers posted Brown’s classic performances of “Prisoner of Love,” “Please, Please, Please” and “Out of Sight” on “The T.A.M.I. Show” (1965).
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On BET Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time, “Soul Brother #1: Remembering James Brown,” will include footage and retrospectives from political activist the Rev. Al Sharpton, actress Rosie Perez, R&B singers Omarion and Full Force, cultural critics Nelson George and Harry Allen, funk bassist and singer Bootsy Collins and others, the network said.
The half-hour special re-airs on Sunday at 2 a.m. Eastern and Pacific; 9 a.m. Sunday Eastern and Pacific, and Monday at 11:30 p.m. Eastern and Pacific.
On Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern and Pacific, “The Godfather of Soul: Celebrating the Life of James Brown” will recap the public memorial and celebration in Augusta, Ga., with BET News correspondent Andre Showell. This half-hour re-airs on Monday at 11 p.m. Eastern and Pacific, the network said.
BET executives in charge are Reginald Hudlin, president of entertainment; Stephen Hill, executive vice president of music and entertainment; Byron Phillips, executive vice president of entertainment and Keith Brown, vice president of news. Executive producers are Selwyn Hinds and Greg Branch (“Soul Brother #1: Remembering James Brown”) and Pamela Gentry (“The Godfather Of Soul: Celebrating The Life of James Brown.”)
- Funeral program (PDF)
- Aerial view of James Brown funeral cortege at New York’s Apollo Theater; mourners pay respects (CBS Newspath, go to 12/28/06)
- Sermon by the Rev. Al Sharpton at New York’s Apollo Theater (WCBS-TV videocast)
- James Brown videos on YouTube
- Classic performances of “Prisoner of Love,” “Please, Please, Please” and “Out of Sight” on “The T.A.M.I. Show” (1965)
- Betty Bayé, Louisville Courier-Journal: Brown gave fans plenty of reasons to sing “I feel good – and proud”
- Cary Clack, San Antonio Express-News: Godfather of Soul Made Us All Feel Good
- Roy Peter Clark, Poynter Institute: Gerald Ford and James Brown: Brothers in Funk
- Editorial, Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent: Brown’s passion heads list of accomplishments
- Editorial, Charlotte Observer: James Brown, unforgettable!
- Editorial, Denver Post: James Brown, 1933-2006
- Editorial, Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun: No one was funkier
- Editorial, Orange County (Calif.) Register: Say it loud: James Brown leaves a joyous musical legacy
- Editorial, Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer: A stop for James Brown
- Editorial, Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle: Godfather’s legacy
- Editorial, San Antonio Express-News: Till the end, fire burned in the ‘Godfather of Soul’
- Editorial, Savannah (Ga.) Morning News: Georgia’s Soul Man
- Editorial, Seattle Times: The amazing Mr. Please Please Please
- Editorial, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal: James Brown
- Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News: Brown’s act? You had to be there
- Frank Harris III, Hartford Courant: Good God, Get Ready!
- Bob Herbert, New York Times: Lessons Never Learned
- Mike King, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: GODFATHER OF SOUL: JAMES BROWN: 1933-2006: Musical blast opened eyes
- Brian Lewis, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader: Man of the year? How about James Brown? [Added Dec. 31]
- Roland S. Martin, Creators Syndicate: James Brown Never Sold His Soul for a Few Pieces of Silver
- Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune: Godfather of soul, and of our goal
- Les Payne, Newsday: A man of soul, black and proud [Added Dec. 31]
- Bob Ray Sanders, Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A heartfelt apology to two I wronged
- Chris Stevenson, politicalaffairs.net: Racism, civil rights and equality
- Sherrel Wheeler Stewart, BlackAmericaWeb.com: Industry Veterans Recall James Brownâ??s Passion for Controlling His Own Financial Destiny
- Angela Tuck, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Brown, Ford deaths test AJC’s print, online ability [Added Dec. 31]
- Jesse Walker, Reason magazine: Father of Funk: The life and afterlife of James Brown
- Adrienne Washington, Washington Times: Farewell to two heroes of one ‘colored child’
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South Asians Cover Saddam Hussein Execution
[Added Dec. 30] “With wall-to-wall coverage on the cable networks and on the Internet of the execution of Saddam Hussein . . . I thought I’d note what I consider to be an unusual aspect of the coverage,” writes the South Asian Journalists Association’s Sree Sreenivasan, via e-mail and on the SAJA blog.
“On at least three major U.S. media outlets, the story is being told, in a major part, by South Asian journalists. I can’t think of a precedent for this.” He said:
- CNN’s Aneesh Raman was the first to announce to a U.S. audience that Saddam had been executed, quoting Arab TV (according to TVNewser.com and DrudgeReport.com).
- The lead story in the Washington Post is by Baghdad correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan.
- The lead story on Time.com is by Baghdad correspondent Aparisim ‘Bobby’ Ghosh.
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Ford Signed Bill Benefiting Indian Health
“Every president has made important contributions that are found only in footnotes. The asterisk might cite a difficult decision, the launching of an innovative federal program or a signature that made a congressional act the law of the land,” Mark Trahant, editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, writes in his column for Sunday publication.
” . . . The bill that finally passed Congress was the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. [Richard] Nixon was no longer president, and many in [Gerald R.] Ford’s Cabinet urged a veto because it would cost $1.6 billion over five years. But at the White House, Brad Patterson, who had worked on many of those issues with Nixon, told the president that this bill was important. ‘And our counterarguments won the day; the legislation was signed by President Ford.’
“I recently hosted a television program looking at 30 years since that act with many of the key players . . . ‘Living History: A Conversation about American Indian Policy,'” wrote Trahant, who is also board chairman of the Maynard Institute.
“One beneficiary of the law, the Seattle Indian Health Board, still operates a clinic for an urban population that’s often forgotten. This is a living legacy from another time. But there is another footnote to this history —a sign of the times — because the Indian Health Care Improvement Act expired a few years ago.
“Congress has yet to reach a bipartisan deal to renew the law. That’s a lousy impasse for such innovative legislation.
“I like the first asterisk better: Ford’s name written on a piece of legislation crafted by Democrats and Republicans. It’s a reminder that we’re a better country when politicians work together to solve problems.”
- Host Farai Chideya, economist Julianne Malveaux, lobbyist Ron Christie, Walter Fields, CEO, North Star Network, “News & Notes” roundtable, National Public Radio: Ford’s legacy
- Wil Haygood, Washington Post: The Homegrown Decency of Gerald Ford
- Bob Herbert, New York Times: Lessons Never Learned
- Earl Ofari Hutchinson, syndicated: Gerald Ford: The Conflicted President on Civil Rights
- Jerry Large, Seattle Times: Presidents can leave their mark on a person
- Bob Ray Sanders, Fort Worth Star-Telegram: A heartfelt apology to two I wronged
- Angela Tuck, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Brown, Ford deaths test AJC’s print, online ability [Added Dec. 31]
Adrienne Washington, Washington Times: Farewell to two heroes of one ‘colored child’