Mamalicious!

G8 leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis!
(hat tip to TAO, my brother from another mother)

 I’m so lame.  Tapestries of Hope has been on my to-blog list for a minute, but I hadn’t gotten around to it because it deserves much more than a rush job, and that’s where I am these days.  But Amy Jussel at ShapingYouth has done the damn thing–and done it right.  Here’s an excerpt from […]

from Yahoo! News
by Justin Cole […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

For the first time in forever, I treated myself to a Saturday matinee courtesy of Netflix.  Just watched Ousmane Sembene’s “Black Girl” (1966), and “Borom Sarret (The Wagoner)” (1963). Both films are meditations on post-colonial reality in Africa: Surprise! Independence didn’t magically herald financial and social stability. If you don’t know about the Senegalese […]

My brother from a different mother, Tambay, posted this, and I have yet to recover:
FROM AFRICANARTISTS.BLOGSPOT.COM
Kristian von Hornsleth Buys Ugandans for Livestock
Danish Artist buys Africans
This morning I received an email from an artist from Uganda called, Eria Sane Nsubuga, who seemed fascinated by an artistic project, which took place last summer, 2007, in a small […]

A few weeks ago, I came across a blog post in which the writer was making some socially-conscious New Year’s resolutions, and one of them was something along the lines of, “Stop thinking and talking about Africa as if it were a monolith.” She committed to addressing the concerns of individual African countries […]