Me’Shell N’degeocello - Adam
Avisha Cohen Trio - Eleven Wives
Stefon Harris - The Lost Ones
Joshua Redman Elastic Band - Put It In Your Pocket

20 min.

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The Mimi & Flo Show is the web’s first Choose Your Own Adventure-style comedy webseries. It has been active since February 20th, 2007.

The premise is simple: 2 girls from the midwest struggling in New York City and trying to become successful. Full of hilarious hijinks and ridiculous situations. I have always been a fan of the Choose Your Own Adventure model because it gives the viewer a sense of involvement and control in the character’s life. Check out this introduction video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G6JmWCwXk4

A portion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech came full circle when Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama was declared the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States of America in early June of 2008. His meteoric rise to this position is largely based on his merits. It is also largely based on the American people’s confidence in his policies to make the United States a better place for themselves and for their children. Barack Obama was able to achieve all of this based on the content of his character and not the color of his skin.

To their credit, large portions of the American people have seemed to wade through racially motivated flare-ups ignited by cable news network background-prodding and political pundit analysis. Obama’s race has become an insignificant matter, turned invisible for some. He is simply an extraordinary man poised to do extraordinary things for his countrymen and the world. We have come a long way when race is not a part of the deciding factor on whether to vote someone into office. Yet, it is important to point out just how much his race does not play a role in the way he is viewed by much of his non-minority supporters. It is a clear invisibility that is more than overlooked- it is ignored. Unfortunately, this is a slight most minorities aren’t immune to. This invisibility comes with a fear that no matter how great his contributions are, negative perceptions of minorities in this country will never change.

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