HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL COSBY

The American comedian, actor, author, television producer, educator, musician and activist celebrated his 73rd birthday today!

~♥Shené

RUSSELL SIMMONS OPEN LETTER TO BILL COSBY

Did you know Bill Cosby is releasing a rap album titled Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency, which focuses on issues pertaining to today's youth. In a post on Global Grind, Russell Simmons wrote an open letter to Bill Cosby titled, Bill Cosby, The Face of Intolerance?


Here's an excerpt:
There are a lot of great entertainers who do great things. Bill Cosby is one of them. He has always used his voice to right what he thought was wrong. However, I believe that too often Mr. Cosby has wrongly placed the blame.

Bill Cosby is an example of someone from the older generation who has consistently blamed the poets and asked suffering community members to bare the full burden of guilt for the struggles that they endure. It is certainly not that he and the rest of the elders don't care, because they do. In fact, their intentions are pure and good. All the things they say are actually true. What they don’t understand is that the young people who they criticize did not create their own realities. They did not create the crumbling education system that we school them in. They did not create the drug epidemic and drug wars that have resulted in a dysfunctional family structure. They did not create the health care crisis that does not treat them. They did not create the culture of violence that they fall victim to.

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~♥Shené

UPDATED: Live BILL COSBY Virtual Town Hall

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OCT 19th
7-8:30 PM EDT / 4-5:30 PST

More info:
Cosby and the Cosnarati Band will kick off the project with a virtual town hall meeting in New York City. Presented in association with Ustream, the town hall starts at 7pm EDT (4pm PDT) on urban radio station web sites across the country as well as billcosby.com and http://www.facebook.com/billcosby.

Tackling such social issues as self-respect, peer pressure, abuse and education, this innovative, online town hall will invite concerned, conscious citizens to voice their opinions and share their proposed solutions to the crisis we need to confront now, collectively and individually. To ask your question now via Twitter which may be addressed by Mr. Cosby and the band during the town hall, click here http://ustream.tv/BillCosby.

A highlight of the 90-minute event will include a first time ever performance by Cosnarati specifically for the town hall event of a few songs from the record. The songs will be available at digital retailers on Oct. 20, to be followed by the album's Nov. 24 physical and digital release.