Writing on her brother site, The Secret Council of American Negroes, The Black Snob takes a tongue-in-cheek jab at the situation some marriage-minded-but-single black women face (“Reviving the Brand.”)
“Hey, Mom! We’ve got Obama and Clinton FIGHTING!”
Say what?
Mini-Me, age 9, and a friend (also 9) are in the next room playing computer games. Last I checked, the game was Club Penguin. So of course, this little announcement from my budding Don King warranted an investigation.
Seems MM and friend ventured onto an […]
2 grown-ups
2 states
240 miles apart
1 airline plus
Unlimited cell phone minutes
plus 2 trusting hearts
Equal a 2nd chance at love
1 Spring Break
5 daughters
4, 9, 9, 11, 11
3 biological
1 adopted
1 borrowed
all loved
1 mini-van, also borrowed,
swapped with 1 ex, mine
Numerous people asking, “How DO you do it????
Zero bitterness?”
Zero interest in doing anything but what’s best for
2 of those daughters, […]
My latest column is up over at AntiRacistParent. It’s a review of Sesame Street: Old School, Volumes 1 and 2. Enjoy!
I’m working on a critical essay about black women/motherhood/mommy memoir writing for a magazine, and I’m looking for books by black women that deal with mothering and/or the family-paid work balancing act women do. So far, I have:
“I’m Every Woman…” by Lonnae O’Neal Parker
“Rising Up Singing…” an anthology of black women writers on motherhood, […]
Finally–after a long wait–my copy of PoemMemoirStory (PMS) #8, a literary journal out of the University of Alabama, arrived in the mail today! #8 is a special black women writers’ issue, guest edited by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, AND I’M IN IT! More accurately, my short story “Bomani Jones” is in it.
Happiness!
This is my […]
First (for me at least), there was Stuff White People Like.
Then I discovered, Stuff Black People Like, a site that’s still under construction (but clink on “Stuff Black People Like Blog” on the left side of the page to access).
And now, via my Yale Black Alum Network e-list, comes…
Stuff Educated Black People Like
I’m […]
In this country, “American” means “white.” Everybody else has to hyphenate.
–Toni Morrison
What’s the big deal?
Just choose.
It’s not even worth mentioning
this contrived “dilemma”–
this expectation that you would
wrap yourself in a flag
that was not sewn with you in mind,
a flag flown over a country where this slip-knot–
really, seriously, it’s just a slip-knot–
was wrapped around the necks of
men, women, and children
who look like you–What dilemma?
Just choose.
Especially if you are […]
Trailer for “Girls Rock!”
Opens March 7th.
In case you missed it, check out Guest Blogger Laina Dawes thoughts on black rock and Black History Month here.
(Thanks, Dawn)
