bloggin' with mr. j

last weekend, tavis smiley hosted his foundation's national youth summit, and c-span (my favorite channel) aired an excellent program from the summit on "black youth and the media." dr. cornel west (princeton professor) and aaron mcgruder (the boondocks creator) discussed issues facing teenagers in this media saturated time. newspapers and news programs ignored this event, but, luckily, it was recorded by c-span digitally. at the c-span site, under most watched video, click on tavis smiley. after the first two minutes, skip to 11:30 in the time bar for the introduction of mcgruder. smiley introduces professor west around 41:00. a panel with the two and the teenager who helped organize the summit starts around 1:11:00.