I discovered Chris Chambers’s blog via the blogroll of some blogger we both read. Could you resist a blog called, “Nat Turner’s Revenge”? I couldn’t, so I clicked. Since then, I’ve enjoyed Chris’s commentary on politics, history, and sports (Yep, sports. I’ll say it again–if the writing is engaging, I’ll read […]
Guess who’s invited to participate in a panel discussion about “The State of Black America” at Duquesne University.
Me!
“Please join the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Black Student Union on February 19, 2008 in the Duquesne Room at 7:00PM as a panel of African American leaders from the City of Pittsburgh share their diverse […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
…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, […]
I’ve never been all that into Valentine’s Day. Even though Hallmark has a card for every conceivable relationship possible (”Happy Valentine’s Day to My Favorite Gynecologist!”), the day is mostly a celebration of romance–something that was, until recently, in fairly short supply in my life. My reactions to Valentine’s Day varied over the past two […]
[UPDATE: Feel free to turn your quiz in any time between now and the end of the month.]
Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge of Black history. The questions are based on biographies written by Mrs. Sunda’s 4th/5th grade Gifted Resource Class at Brisas Elementary in Chandler, Arizona* in 2004. (We have […]
