I got an email from fellow LiteraryMama, Elrena Evans about her latest writing and publishing endeavors, including the release of Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life which she co-edited with another wonderful LiteraryMama, Caroline Grant.
In addition to checking out their blogs (which feature giveaways!), you can also enjoy the trailer they created […]
No Child Left Behind: Doomed to Fail?
…Add to the mix the fact that much of the promised funding failed to materialize and many early critics insisted that No Child Left Behind was nothing more than a cynical plan to destroy American faith in public education and open the way to vouchers and school choice.
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The teacher’s defense of his actions leave me speechless.
Teacher suspended for using racial epithet
What do you get when you cross presenting your girl-children with role models and icons who look like them, with home decorating?
The Sheroes Project.
Motivated by Maj. Kimbrell and by the desire to decorate BabyGirl’s new Big Girl bedroom, I’ve decided to collect images, preferably but not exclusively black and white, of black sheroes to frame, […]
Courtesy of my dear friend and dueling laptops partner extraordinaire, below are some summer opportunities for writers of color.
I attended Hurston Wright last summer, and it was the best. Kick-started my determination to finish my novel, connected with some great emerging writers (who are way too quiet, wouldn’t you agree? Or maybe they […]
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 […]
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, […]
Earlier this month, InkogNegro commanded asked those of us on his blogroll to ponder and answer a handful of questions. Of the questions listed, I’ve chosen this one:
How do we persuade our children to firmly understand the need for thorough knowledge of English, […]
