A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post in which the writer was making some socially-conscious New Year’s resolutions, and one of them was something along the lines of, “Stop thinking and talking about Africa as if it were a monolith.” She committed to addressing the concerns of individual African countries […]
This Spring, GirlChild Press will release its second collection, Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta! The anthology includes a contribution by yours truly (a short story entitled, Bomani Jones), but I’d recommend it, even if it didn’t. Michelle Sewell, founder of GirlChild Press, would like to send preview copies of Just Like a Girl… to […]
For Christmas, Mini-Me, who is 9 years old, got a laptop. She is thrilled to be able to write her own stories whenever and wherever she wants without having to ask to use my laptop (99% of the time, the answer was “no.”). She’s also discovered the joys of IM. Her Friends […]
Compton, California. Home to assorted Crips and Bloods. The birthplace of NWA. Apparently the ideal place for Hillary Clinton to kiss-and-make-up with Black America for comments which discounted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s role in the civil rights movement. Of course, she didn’t come right out and say she was sorry […]
Kudos to Tech Boo, and especially to Kams the Great from 3BCfor the site make-over. Thanks a million, sis.
You know how babies aren’t exactly fun to look at when they are first born? Like, a-minute-old? Unless it’s your baby, in which case you declare her the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, but honestly, when you look back at the birth photos when she’s about three-and-a-half-years-old, you marvel […]
