NYC has everything. One minute you’re in a comfy apartment in Park Slope snuggled up with a friend’s 8-day-old daughter, drunk on her new baby smell, monopolizing all her time; the next minute, you’re popping champagne in celebration of a good girlfriend’s forty-something birthday at Boucarou, a restaurant/lounge where West Africa meets the East […]
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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 […]
My contribution to the Women’s History Month Blog Carnival hosted by Tami and Heart is up. Take a read.
My latest column is up over at AntiRacistParent. It’s a review of Sesame Street: Old School, Volumes 1 and 2. Enjoy!
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 […]
This week, we welcome guest blogger Dark Star to our 32 Days of Black History celebration. At DarkStarSpoutsOff, he gives you his straight-no-chaser views about politics, media, and popular culture, particularly as they relate to black folks. Twice (and counting), Dark Star has been invited to share his views on NPR’s Blogger […]
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 […]
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed
to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for
this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men. — Shirley Chisholm
A few year back, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shola Lynch, independent filmmaker […]
…or, you can head over to Yvette’s place and check out her tribute to the High Priest of High Heels. She’s compiled a playlist of His Royal Purpleness-related covers and collaborations. Etta James did “Purple Rain”? Who knew?
And whilst over there, dig if you will a 2nd playlist of Post-Purple Rain favorites.
Back when Purple Rain […]
