Fridays are music days here at the 32 Days of Black History celebration, and because I’m sick–it’s viral, not bacterial and therefore must run its course–today, I’m totally going to cheat and be lame and just encourage everyone to buy e. badu’s latest, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). Here’s the first track off [...]
Fridays are music days here at the 32 Days of Black History celebration, and because I’m sick–it’s viral, not bacterial and therefore must run its course–today, I’m totally going to cheat and be lame and just encourage everyone to buy e. badu’s latest, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). Here’s the first track off [...]
Courtesy of my fellow 32 Days of Black History celebrant, Yvette: A Trip to Family; A Trip Through Time Deesha and I are honored to welcome yet another guest blogger to our 32 Days of Black History project. Originally from Chicago, Frances Dumas-Hines received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. She received [...]
Plus: I finished (and thoroughly enjoyed) Mat Johnson’s Incognegro… Minus: …but I can’t write my review of it, because I am the sickest I have been possibly ever in my life. Certainly the sickest in recent memory. I never get sick, but here I am: hacking cough, nasal drama, headache, fuzzy-brained. And yet, this is [...]
“[Lewis] said Wednesday afternoon he had called former President Clinton and Sen. Clinton but had not reached them.” Uh…and you won’t. Ever. Civil Rights Leader Switches to Obama Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, D-N.Y., waves as she and Rep. John Lewis,… By BEN EVANS, AP WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support [...]
Today our 32 Days of Black History celebration features a Q&A Yvette and I conducted with Troy Johnson, the founder and webmaster of AALBC.com LLC (The African American Literarture Book Club). I have mixed feelings about Troy. Sure his CV is impressive (see bio below), he is a True Friend to black writers, and through [...]
Today our 32 Days of Black History celebration features a Q&A Yvette and I conducted with Troy Johnson, the founder and webmaster of AALBC.com LLC (The African American Literarture Book Club). I have mixed feelings about Troy. Sure his CV is impressive (see bio below), he is a True Friend to black writers, and through [...]
This week, we welcome guest blogger Dark Star to our 32 Days of Black History celebration. At DarkStarSpoutsOff, he gives you his straight-no-chaser views about politics, media, and popular culture, particularly as they relate to black folks. Twice (and counting), Dark Star has been invited to share his views on NPR’s Blogger Roundtable. Today, he [...]
This is a question Mini-Me posed when she was about 2 or 3 years old. She asked the same question regarding her baby sister, who is adopted, when we brought her home a few years later. On both occasions, I turned to a book to help my little person make sense of this crazy, slippery [...]
This is a question Mini-Me posed when she was about 2 or 3 years old. She asked the same question regarding her baby sister, who is adopted, when we brought her home a few years later. On both occasions, I turned to a book to help my little person make sense of this crazy, slippery [...]