http://truittoneal.com Radio Personality and Multimedia Guru Truitt O'Neal Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:29:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 2008-2009 truittao@gmail.com (Truitt O'Neal) truittao@gmail.com (Truitt O'Neal) 1440 http://truittoneal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/podlogo144x144.jpg http://truittoneal.com 144 144 Media Specialist Exposed Truitt O'Neal Truitt O'Neal truittao@gmail.com no no http://truittoneal.com/2009/04/29/ernie-barnes-passes-on/ http://truittoneal.com/2009/04/29/ernie-barnes-passes-on/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:37:40 +0000 Truitt O'Neal http://650997463 Posted in Tru Life

Ernie Barnes, a one-time professional football player who became one of the nation’s foremost African American artists, has died after a brief illness, his personal assistant said today. He was 70. Barnes, best known for a unique figurative style of painting exemplified by his celebrated “Sugar Shack” dance scene, died Monday night at Cedars Sinai [...]

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Research wise, The Black Smurfs (original French title Les Schtroumpfs Noirs) is the first collection of the original French-language Smurfs comic series created by Belgian artist Peyo, first published in 1963. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoon made for NBC’s Saturday Morning Cartoon line-up, the black Smurfs were changed to purple one’s in order to soften any [...]

]]> http://truittoneal.com/2009/04/29/the-black-smurf-controversy/feed/ 15 http://truittoneal.com/2009/04/01/tru-life-a-passing/ http://truittoneal.com/2009/04/01/tru-life-a-passing/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:33:29 +0000 Truitt O'Neal http://truittoneal.com/?p=1135 Posted in Tru Life

So today was an especially hard day for me. In the past 6 months I have experienced 3 loses. One a childhood friend whom I had known since I was born. The other a cousin who was beloved by the entire family. Today they buried a woman who I respected and admired for her success [...]

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Kooley High is back with another classic mixtape free of charge for the masses. The new project, Kooley Is High, is mixed by K-Salaam.  February 2009 many of those true hip-hop heads here in the Tar Heel state made the drive out to Cary to see the Carolina premeir of the documentary “One Day” which [...]

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for 30 years under apartheid, died after a concert in Italy. She was 76.In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world – jazz maestros Nina [...]

]]> http://truittoneal.com/2008/11/10/south-african-icon-miriam-makeba-dies/feed/ 0 0:03:01 Posted in Tru LifeTru Sounds JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for 30 years under apartheid, died after a concert in I[...] Posted in Tru LifeTru Sounds JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for 30 years under apartheid, died after a concert in Italy. She was 76.In her dazzling career, Makeba performed with musical legends from around the world – jazz maestros Nina Simone and Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon – and sang for world leaders such as John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela.She was also the first African woman to win a Grammy award.The Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno, near the southern city of Naples, said Makeba died of a heart attack early today. Town Mayor Francesco Nuzzo said Makeba collapsed late Sunday at the end of a concert against organized crime, which has been blamed for the local massacre in September of six immigrants from Ghana. Makeba had not looked well as she visited an immigrant aid center in Castel Volturno early Sunday afternoon, the mayor said. The death of “Mama Africa,” as she was known, plunged South Africa into shock and mourning. “One of the greatest songstresses of our time has ceased to sing,” Foreign Affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said in a statement. “Throughout her life, Mama Makeba communicated a positive message to the world about the struggle of the people of South Africa and the certainty of victory over the dark forces of apartheid and colonialism through the art of song.” Makeba wrote in her 1987 memoirs that friends and relatives who first encouraged her to perform compared her voice to that of a nightingale. With her distinctive style combining jazz with folk with South African township rhythms, she was often called “The Empress of African Song.” She first started singing in Sophiatown, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Johannesburg that was a cultural hotspot in the 1950s before its black residents were forcibly removed by the apartheid government. She then teamed up with South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela – later her first husband – and her rise to international prominence started when she starred in the anti-apartheid documentary Come Back, Africa in 1959. When she tried to fly home for her mother’s funeral the following year, she discovered her passport had been revoked. It was 30 years before she was allowed to return. In 1963, Makeba appeared before the U.N. Special Committee on Apartheid to call for an international boycott of South Africa. The South African government responded by banning her records, including hits like Pata Pata, The Click Song (Qongqothwane in Xhosa), and Malaika. Makeba received the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording in 1966 together with Belafonte for An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. The album dealt with the political plight of black South Africans under apartheid. Thanks to her close relationship with Belafonte, she received star status in the United States and performed for President Kennedy at his birthday party in 1962. But she fell briefly out of favor when she married black power activist Stokely Carmichael and moved to Guinea in the late 1960s. Besides working with Simone and Gillespie, she also appeared with Paul Simon at his “Graceland” concert in Zimbabwe in 1987. After three decades abroad, Makeba was invited back to South Africa by Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon, shortly after his release from prison in 1990 as white racist rule crumbled. “It was like a revival,” she said about going home. “My music having been banned for so long, that people still felt the same way about me was too much for me. I just went home and I cried.” She insisted that her songs were not deliberately political. “I’m not a political singer,” she insisted in an interview with Britain’s Guardian newspaper earlier this year. “I don’t know what the word means. People think I cons[...] Truitt O'Neal no no http://truittoneal.com/2008/10/31/tru-life-this-just-looks-soooo-right/ http://truittoneal.com/2008/10/31/tru-life-this-just-looks-soooo-right/#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:46:36 +0000 Truitt O'Neal http://truittoneal.com/?p=581 Posted in Tru Life

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It’s been nearly 2 years since I created the first TruittONeal.com website and now I’m happy to say that the new site is even better. Along with the redesign comes the decision to merge BigTru.Com into this new site. After September 1, 2008, the old BigTru.Com site will no longer be. In the upcoming weeks [...]

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