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Michael Jackson
In 1970, at the 2nd edition of NAACP Image Awards, Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 receive the NAACP Image award forBest Singing Group of the Yearfrom the National Association For The Advancement Of Black People, a distinction they will also win the following year, as well as in 1972, 1980 and 1981.
In 1971, for their playing two benefit concerts for the re-election campaign for Mayor Richard Hatcher, January 31is declared "Jackson Five Day”in Gary, Indiana, the group receiving the Keys To The City as well. As part of the homecoming, a plaque is placed at the University of Indiana, stating that the Jackson 5 give "Hope To The Young”.Their Congressman then presents them with the flag from the top of the State Capital.
On September 20, 1971, the Jackson Five receive commendations for “contributions to American youth”. The Congressional Record reads that “despite their fantastic commercial success, members of the Jackson Five are continuing their education […]”, and more such complimentary assertions.In 1972, Michael Jackson - together with the Jackson 5 - is given the U.S. Congress "Special Recommendation For Positive Role Models" award.
In 1972, Michael Jackson wins "Best Original Song"in a movie for his song, "Ben", at the Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton H
Time for Something Different
Michael Jackson’s “definitive” biographers have all failed to excavate the human being from the mythology and misinformation built up over the decades.
MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson by Steve Knopper. Scribner. 448 pages.
“Who dares judge the inexpressible expense another pays for his life?”
— James Baldwin
“I bind my soul to my work.”
— Michael Jackson
DO WE NEED a new biography of Michael Jackson? What can a worthwhile biography of Jackson — one worth publishing and worth reading — hope to accomplish, after all that’s been said already?
Steve Knopper has offered a new entry in the long line of “definitive” (as the back cover proclaims) Jackson biographies. Knopper’s MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson follows predecessors going as far back as the 1980s, and does little to reinterpret an already familiar narrative. Like Randall Sullivan and J. Randy Taraborrelli, his closest models, Knopper hovers close to tabloid “journalism” and gossip television, while making much of the trappings of research. (Footnotes and endnotes! An index!) He shows little inclination to think critically about either his material or his own purposes. MJ not only covers the same events and relationships Sullivan and Taraborrelli covered, but it quotes mostly the same sources and takes a similar tone.
Knopper identifies himself on the jacket flap as the author of a book on changes in the music industry and several articles in the corporate press, and as “a contributing editor to Rolling Stone.” Anyone familiar with Sullivan’s 2012 Untouchable will likely pause there. Yes, Knopper is the second Jackson biographer in only three years to have come out of Rolling Stone, a publication whose historical neglect of black music has been long noted and whose decades-long hostility toward Jackson, in particular, has begun to be called out. Given the overlap, and the fact that Knopper’s book is not much dif Thanks for joining us this summer as we revisited some of the 200,000 memorable lives featured in The New York Times’s archive. We wandered back into a fatal Alaskan odyssey and over the rainbow. We heard the echoes of shots that reverberated in America and around the world. We mingled with criminals, leaders, protesters, artists and athletes, many who forever changed their professions. We relived the first steps on the moon and the speech that divided India and Pakistan. And we asked Anderson Cooper, Cory Booker, Dominique Dawes, Tom Brokaw and David H. Petraeus whom from our archives they would dine with, and why. You can find more fascinating New York Times obituaries, year round, here and on our Twitter feed. Click here for the continuing feature “Notable Deaths of 2016”, and if you want to revisit some of the most momentous obituaries to have appeared in The Times, you might look for “The Book of the Dead,” a compilation of obituaries dating back to the newspaper’s founding in 1851. It will be available for preorder and will appear on store shelves in October. We welcome your feedback about Not Forgotten here. We hope you enjoyed it. —-Shreeya Sinha She died young. She died violently. She was a global celebrity in the broadest sense, a woman of startling charisma who became famous when she married the heir to the English throne and even more famous when she divorced him and embarked on a life of her own. But the sudden death of Diana, the Princess of Wales, alongside her lover in a fiery car crash in a Paris tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997, elevated her into something else entirely: a symbol of a nation’s emotional and generational conflicts, a blank slate on which an entire people — and to some extent, the world at large — could project their own fears, prejudices and passions. Britain went a littl Long May He Reign: Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop’
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This book can serve multiple purposes. For those who are avid tabloid readers, this book will definitely be a rich source of information you will be able to inject in future conversations about Michael Jackson. For intense fans, this book is an amazing look into who their idol was.
But for those of us who are concerned with the bigger picture of how a fairy tale can go so wrong, this book provides us with great insight into the relationship between an entertainer and his public, and how the two can feed each other negatively until both collapse.
Michael Jackson collapsed in an obvious way; and, upon reflection, it’s easy to see how the American and Canadian cultures have also collapsed. When more teenagers know about the relationship status of their favourite actors and singers than they do about the status of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, you know something is wrong.
It is largely due to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s strong hand that this book doesn’t read as a tabloid, but rather as an exploration of how Michael Jackson’s relationship with his family, with fame, and with his fans affected him. While Boteach does express admiration for Jackson and acknowledges his massive contribution to pop culture and music, Rabbi Boteach never slips into a sappy form of adoration, neither elevating Michael Jackson to a deity nor abasing him as Satan’