• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Site Directory
  • Home
  • Alex’s Lounge
  • P.O.U. Health and Fitness
  • POU Comments of the Week
  • P.O.U. Daily Link Sweep
Pragmatic Obots Unite

Pragmatic Obots Unite

Shooting down firebaggers & teabaggers one truth at a time...

Roots

Tuesday Open Thread: Historic Pop Culture Moments

May 22, 2018 by Miranda 296 Comments

Good Morning POU! Did you know, By the eighth and final night of "Roots," movie theaters in many cities didn't even try to compete. They simply closed their doors. Eighty million viewers watched that last two-hour episode. Its 51.1 rating and 71 Nielsen share were a record that will likely never be matched. Mayors in more than 30 cities declared it "Roots" … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Historic Pop Culture Moments

Tuesday Open Thread: Historic Pop Culture Moments

October 13, 2015 by Miranda 303 Comments

Good Morning POU! Did you know, By the eighth and final night of "Roots," movie theaters in many cities didn't even try to compete. They simply closed their doors. Eighty million viewers watched that last two-hour episode. Its 51.1 rating and 71 Nielsen share were a record that will likely never be matched. Mayors in more than 30 cities declared it "Roots" … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: Historic Pop Culture Moments

Thursday Evening Thread: Television History – Roots

January 23, 2014 by Miranda 118 Comments

On this day in 1977, ABC0TV began televising the Roots mini-series. This series would go on to be the most watched mini-series in history.  The mini-series was based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, entitled Roots: The Saga of an American Family.  Roots received 37 Emmy Award nominations and won nine. It won also a Golden Globe and a Peabody Award.  It received unprecedented Nielsen … [Read more...] about Thursday Evening Thread: Television History – Roots

Sunday Open Thread: Many Rains Ago

July 29, 2012 by Miranda 109 Comments

Good Morning Obots! Pbomb's topic last week made me think of this artist and this song which would bring me to tears as a very young child. I had no idea what the song was even about at the time, but I would tear up and cry just listening to it. It's the last song on the soundtrack for "Roots", produced by Quincy Jones and performed by South African jazz artist Letta … [Read more...] about Sunday Open Thread: Many Rains Ago

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • People
  • Recent
  • Popular

Top Commenters

  • GreenLadyHere13
     · 222141 posts
  • Alma98
     · 206743 posts
  • rikyrah
     · 182508 posts
  • nellcote
     · 100692 posts

Recent Comments

  • conlakappa

    She was complaining again about ... something.

    Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts · 1 hour ago

  • conlakappa

    Proof her social media intern is even dumber than she is. No doubt, she'll somehow cry victim.

    Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts · 1 hour ago

  • nellcote

    lol. idiot
    https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1946689336231293214

    Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts · 1 hour ago

  • nellcote

    lol
    https://x.com/NotHoodlum/status/1946677358015951170

    Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts · 1 hour ago

Most Discussed

  • Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts

    145 comments · 1 hour ago

  • Friday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts

    127 comments · 1 day ago

  • Thursday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts

    185 comments · 1 day ago

  • Wednesday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts

    118 comments · 3 days ago

Powered by Disqus

Twitter

Tweets by @PragObots

Recent Posts

  • Saturday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts
  • Friday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts
  • Thursday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts
  • Wednesday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts
  • Tuesday Open Thread: Black Owned Resorts

Tags

#HTGAWM #TGIT African American History African History Black History Civil Rights Movement Divas Forward Friday Open Thread Funk Grammy Winners Great Bands Hip-Hop How To Get Away With Murder Jazz Kerry Washington Legends Monday Open Thread Motown Records NFL Obama Biden 2012 Olivia Pope Open Thread P.O.U. Sunday Jazz Brunch POU Weekly NFL Picks President Barack H. Obama President Barack Obama President Obama R&B racism Rap Saturday Open Thread Scandal Shondaland Shonda Rhimes slavery Songwriters Soul Sports Sunday Open Thread Thursday Open Thread Tuesday Open Thread Video Viola Davis Wednesday Open Thread

Footer

A-F

  • African American Pundit
  • Afrospear
  • All About Race
  • Angry Black Lady Chronicles
  • AverageBro.com
  • Black Politics on the Web
  • Blacks 4 Barack
  • Blue Wave News
  • Brown Man Thinking Hard
  • Crooks and Liars
  • Democracy Now!
  • Democrats for Progress
  • Eclectablog
  • Extreme Liberal's Blog
  • FactCheck.org
  • Field Negro
  • FiveThirtyEight

G-S

  • GrannyStandingforTruth
  • Hello, Negro
  • Jack & Jill Politics
  • Latino Politico
  • Margaret and Helen
  • Melissa Harris Perry
  • Michelle Obama Watch
  • Mirror On America
  • Momma, here come that woman again!
  • New Black Woman
  • Obama Foodorama
  • Obama for America 2012
  • Positively Barack
  • Raving Black Lunatic
  • Sheryl Kaye's Blog
  • Sojourner's Place
  • Stuff White People Do

T-Z

  • Talking Points Memo
  • The Black Snob Feed
  • The Field
  • The Hill
  • The Mudflats
  • The Obama Diary
  • The only adult in the room
  • The Peoples View
  • The Reid Report
  • The Rude Pundit
  • The Starting Five
  • ThinkProgress
  • This Week in Blackness
  • Tim Wise
  • Uppity Negro Network
  • What About Our Daughters
  • White House Blog
  • Womanist Musings

Copyright © 2025 · Log in