Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please give to provide relief and hope to the people of Haiti:
Doctors Without Borders
Oxfam America
Yéle Haiti
So tomorrow night, TechBoo and I get to celebrate another first together: Our first Chanukah party. What to bring? I’m leaning towards a bottle of wine and the jelly doughnuts (which, coincidentally, will come from the new kosher Dunkin’ Donuts that recently opened up nearby).
Saturday night, the celebrating continues with a birthday slumber party for [...]
More good news…Check out my interview with Talibah Mbonisi of WeParent here.
Finally, finally, finally…Today, I am coming out from under the ravages of the Great Flood of ‘09 and getting back to work on my book proposal. However, I’m taking a break from the action to post here.
On one my favorite message boards, AALBC.com, one of my favorite sister-friends, Yvette, shared the following on a “Black [...]
Around this time last year, a core group of us were two days into a 32-day-long celebration of Black History Month. Alas, no such celebration will be held at Mamalicious! this year. What with me teaching two classes, dealing with home restoration and remodeling after a flood, my little darlings, Frick and Frack, [...]
Over at the African-American Literature Book Club, I’m participating in a discussion about a lawsuit filed seeking to stop Obama from saying “so help me God” during his inauguration on Tuesday:
“Supporters of a strict interpretation of the separation of Church and State in the United States have filed a lawsuit seeking an end of the [...]
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!
Do yourself a favor and check out the newest addition to the Mamalicious! blogroll, AfroNetizen. The site’s founder and Chief Evangelist is Chris Rabb, a fellow Yalie. AfroNetizen is a great one-stop for progressive news and views by, about, and of interest to black folks.
For a long time, I’ve been drawn to tragic biographies. Ever since my senior year in high school when I worked shelving books in the media department of the main branch of the Jacksonville (FL) Public Library, I’ve been fascinated by turbulent life stories, those of celebrities in particular. As I shelved, I [...]
In my biased opinion, Mini-Me is a great little writer, but others think so as well. Recently, someone was admiring her work and asked me if I gave her writing instruction. I laughed because it reminded me of when Mini-Me walked before she was 10 months old and another mom asked me if [...]
