Why Not Adopt a Black Child? by Deesha Philyaw “We have many clients seeking to adopt, but none of them are waiting for a Black child.” The woman’s voice on the phone was at once unsettling, moving, and life-changing. A caseworker at a local Christian adoption agency, she had received a call from a Black [...]
Please do yourself a favor and check out the latest addition to my blogroll, For Harriet. The site’s tagline says it all: Celebrating the fullness of black womanhood. The content is smart, thoughtful, and edifying. I don’t come away from it feeling like, “Heard it all before…” or “We need to do better…” I come [...]
Love this. I don’t know the source, but I got it from my brilliant Tweep dumilewis. Get more of Dr. Lewis here.
A Palin post-script: Back Home in Alaska, Palin Finds Cold Comfort
A Palin post-script: Back Home in Alaska, Palin Finds Cold Comfort
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 [...]
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 [...]
In my recent book/reading post, I neglected to mention one of the books I’m currently reading, A Thousand Splendid Suns. This book came highly recommended from a few sources, but I hesitated to pick it up because I was not a fan of The Kite Runner. Thankfully, I received it as a Christmas gift from [...]
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!
Elizabeth Alexander, prize-winning poet and professor of African-American Studies at Yale, will read a poem at Obama’s inauguration! Congrats to her!