This past February, my girls and I watched the DVD Our Friend, Martin (thanks again to Christina for the heads up). In this movie, the main character, a black teenager named Miles, travels back in time and befriends a young Martin Luther King, Jr. The past and the present collide right up […]
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)
Well, it’s a wrap. Today marks the last day of our 32 Days of Black History celebration, and I’ve been mulling over how to end. As I’ve wondered, Donna Summer’s “Last Dance” started playing in my head. But the last post will not be a music post, that much I know, even […]
My review of Jump at the Sun,and an interview with author Kim McLarin.
I’m in the revision phase of a creative nonfiction essay currently under consideration–keep your fingers crossed–for inclusion in an upcoming anthology. My essay is about trying to raise healthy and health-conscious kids while also sharing with them the food and cooking traditions from my Southern roots. From time to time, we’ve tried what […]
“We invented the blues; Europeans invented psychoanalysis. You invent what you need.”
–Albert Murray, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary and jazz critic
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, […]
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, […]
