Yvette and I are happy to welcome today’s 32 Days of Black History blogathon guest blogger Laina Dawes. Laina is a writer and music critic from Toronto, Canada. Yvette first “cyber met” Laina when she began reading her columns in the Race, Ethnicity & Culture section (which she heads) for Blogher.com. Laina’s writings appear in […]
Shamelessly, I will continue to big up give shout outs to plug feature my friends here periodically during the 32 Days of Black History celebration. What can I say? I have a busy, happenin’ group of friends.
One such friend is Chris Ivey, a Pittsburgh-based filmmaker who is pissing […]
So Tami tagged me for the Three Pieces of Writing Advice meme. I’m honored; I haven’t been tagged since elementary school! Here goes…
I really do believe there’s nothing new under the sun, and writing advice is no exception. Any advice I have for other writers is advice that has been given […]
So, I’m committed to blogging for 32 Days in celebration of Black History Month, and today is one of those days where I’m just barely making it under the midnight-wire. I had a busy day, to say the least. I’m in DC where my 20-Year Congressional Page Reunion is taking place. When […]
…but, no, I didn’t write it.
Just as it dawned on me to post this (the author invited folks to pass it on), it dawned on me that I post more of other people’s words here than I do my own. As a writer, that seems…weird. But, when I think about it, if I’m not posting […]
Women’s History Month Blog Carnival
What Tami Said and Women’s Space are partnering to host a blog carnival to encourage a dialogue between all women committed to gender equality.
Dates: March 1 through March 31
Theme: Come Together–Healing Tensions among Women Working for Equality
We are accepting essays, poetry, photographic essays, art, You Tube presentations, short fiction […]
Mini-Me is home from school today (start of the long President’s Day weekend/vaca), but for Baby Girl it was business as usual–preschool. So…I’m twisting Mini-Me’s locs, and we are watching Le Mozart Noir based on Christina’s recommendation. The film introduces my budding violinist to Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Joseph de Bologne, a swashbuckling […]
It’s Friday, music day, at the 32 Days of Black History blogathon celebration. Word has that Yvette over at Six Impossible Things…is bringing you the whole funk and nothin’ but the funk today. Go see listen.
A few weeks ago, I started taking a zumba class (I’m loving it, btw), and aside […]
Thanks, Deb
From the LA Times…
For Marion Jones, the beatings will continue
The ex-Olympian lost her medals and will go to prison, but for some it’s not enough.
By Todd Balf
February 15, 2008
When track star Marion Jones surrenders March 11 to serve a six-month jail sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan near Austin, Texas, a parade of journalists […]
…so check out my fellow 32 Days… bloggers riffing on all this heart stuff.
Black Love Day was yesterday, but InkogNegro doesn’t want you to let that stop you from hugging on a Black person today.
Christina is hugged up with her boo, and she blesses us with an excerpt from her manuscript 69 Love Poems, […]
