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 of […]
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 her doctorate […]
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, […]
“[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 for […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christina has a wonderful, wonderful interview with An Artist You Need to Know, Christiane D. Leach (Pittsburgh…worldwide). Read it…now!
Here at the 32 Days of Black History blogathon, we’ve designated Sundays as “Black to the Future” days. In these entries, we will shine our spotlight on black folks you should know (but may not), folks you’re going to be hearing about in the future (if you haven’t already).
Today’s spotlight illuminates my fellow Yalie, Kersten […]
Please check out my interview with writer Kim McLarin over at LiteraryMama. In it, she discusses the themes in her most recent novel, Jump at the Sun (about a successful black woman who contemplates abandoning her children) as well as why she writes, how being a black, female writer informs how she sees the […]
