David Mills' Blog
Undercoverblackman.blogspot.com
WHY THIS David Mills (a TV writer with The Wire and NYPD Blue to his credit) updates Undercover Black Man with remarkably candid interviews from his '80s newspaper days, with everyone from Oprah to Eldridge Cleaver. Popular recurring feature: ''Misidentified Black Person,'' which reprimands TV and newspaper outlets for running incorrect pictures of black people (example: a picture of Serena Williams ID'd as Beyoncé).
HE'S PROUDEST OF '''The N----r Top 10.' I sat around with three good friends, all of us black men in our 40s, to determine the most significant uses of the N-word in pop culture history, from Richard Pryor to Lenny Bruce to the Last Poets.''
KEEPING IT REAL Baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson hosted a radio show! UBM links to Robinson interviewing legend Satchel Paige.
SECRET AMBITION ''To create an Encyclopedia Funkadelica — the world's most comprehensive resource on George Clinton and P-Funk.''
