Yevette Richards Jordan Breaks it Down in a letter to NPR: Dear Mr Bolton, I heard your NPR discussion on the Reid story and I really disagree with your assessment. First, the Republican argument ofContinue reading

I joined Anthony Bradley of The Institute and Michael D. Cobb Bowen of The Conservative Brotherhood on today’s Bloggers’ Roundtable. Farai Chideya of NPR’s News and Notes moderates. Please listen to this 16 minute segment,Continue reading

“Depression is not a crime — it’s an illness.” – Terrie M. Williams Terrie M. Williams and Stay Strong: Healing Starts With Us (HSWU) Present“The Open Book” on BroadwayA Screening on What Depression Looks Like,Continue reading

gaza a great miracle happened here a festival of lights a casting of lead upon children an army feasting on epiphany i know nothing under the sun over the wall no one mentionssome must dieContinue reading

Activist poet and dear friend Suheir Hammad has sent a list of links to help us try to make sense of things. Please click around, and please provide other links, from any perspective on thisContinue reading

Carleen Brice has taken her campaign from the blogosphere to the mainstream press. Read her Washington Post article on marketing, race, and books by Black authors. And spread the word on the Black writers youContinue reading

Link: http://www.kmbc.com/video/17768384/index.html Click on this KMBC TV Kansas City report. A middle class African American college student returned a pair of shoes after finding another pair at a lower price. He discovered a racial slurContinue reading

The following comes from Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant: December 15, 2008“I thought I had a handle on my life—-then it broke off.” That’s what Thomasina “Tee” Hodges, the main character in our new book,Continue reading

Link: http://www.tayarijones.com/blog/archives/2008/12/rip_pinkie_gord.html This tribute has been sent to ChickenBones. Jerry Angle of Song: Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923-2008) I am listening to Nia Long deliver the words of ?I Am Looking at Music,? a poem byContinue reading

Link: http://www.ravinstyle.com/profilefall02site.html Check out my college friend Aisha Steiner Salmon looking amazing and promoting her work as Director of The Rockhouse Foundation on RavinStyle.com: http://www.ravinstyle.com/profilefall02site.html. Love it! 🙂 Comment(s) § Jane said on : 12/02/08Continue reading

Link: http://welcomewhitefolks.blogspot.com/ Everything below comes from guest blogger Carleen Brice: ***** December is National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month. Say what? Yep, in December, blackContinue reading

Link: http://thedefendersonline.org/ From Makeba to Obama to Annette Gordon-Reed, 2008 winner of the National Book Award for nonfiction, this new blog covers the politics, arts, history, and activism of the community. Click the link aboveContinue reading

Last Night: My husband Ralph and I headed to an MTV Election Party over in Alphabet City hosted by a group of Gen X-ers, friends of ours like Pam Pickens, LaRon Batchelor, and Kevin Powell.Continue reading

The Wolfe Institute For Information: (718) 951-5847 depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/wolfe/ The Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities,in cooperation with ERIS, the Center for Diversity, the Office of Affirmative Action, the Department of Political Science, Africana Studies,Continue reading

My husband and I went to our polling place here in Brooklyn at about 8:00. The line was orderly, straight, and moving… s-l-o-w-l-y. Moving, though. As we entered the school, about an hour later, weContinue reading