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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!                      

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.

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.

“Generosity without orthodoxy is nothing, but orthodoxy without generosity is worse than nothing.”   ~Hans Frei  (quoted in Brian D. McLaren’s  A Generous Orthodoxy )

The year: 1989. The place: Yale, The Afro-American Cultural Center (bka “The House”) Me, a freshman, not dancing, just holding up the wall as the song below plays. The album it’s from, along with “Poison” (BBD, “Never trust a big butt and a smile…”), was the soundtrack to my freshman year: Question: Did we really [...]

The difference between MySpace and Facebook: MySpace: You are likely to encounter your 8th grade boyfriend whom you haven’t seen in 20 years, exchange a grand total of 2 messages which amount to “Hey, there!”, and all is well until his barely literate wife sends you hate mail insisting you stay away from her man.  [...]

The difference between MySpace and Facebook: MySpace: You are likely to encounter your 8th grade boyfriend whom you haven’t seen in 20 years, exchange a grand total of 2 messages which amount to “Hey, there!”, and all is well until his barely literate wife sends you hate mail insisting you stay away from her man.  [...]

I went out on a first (and last) date once with a cop.  It was an online thing, and based on his picture, I wasn’t all that enthused.  But I went…and then interacting with him face to face, I was even less enthused. It wasn’t just that I wasn’t attracted to him.  There was also [...]

I went out on a first (and last) date once with a cop.  It was an online thing, and based on his picture, I wasn’t all that enthused.  But I went…and then interacting with him face to face, I was even less enthused. It wasn’t just that I wasn’t attracted to him.  There was also [...]