Last night, I sat on an AWP panel moderated by Dr. Brenda Greene called “The National Black Writers Conference: Creating a Historical Record in Black Letters.” Other panelists included Malaika Adero, Keith Gilyard, and RichardContinue reading

Thanks, Elise, for sending me this link. Click on VoteChooser.com and answer 10 easy multiple choice questions about issues like Iraq, immigration, and government spending. The quiz took me, literally, a minute and a half,Continue reading

Thanks, Zuhairah and Fanon, for sending this to me: Mos Def will narrate the 2007 American Black Film Festival Winner for Best Documentary, Prince Among Slaves. The program airs on Channel 13/WNET here in NewContinue reading

Read about Toni Morrison’s endorsement in The Detroit Free Press. Thank you to Zuhairah and Julia for sending this to me: Dear Senator Obama, This letter represents a first for me–a public endorsement of aContinue reading

Thanks to my husband for the LA Times piece, my former student Ryan Collazo for the NY Times article, and my sister-friend Sharon Pendana for Alternet.com. The media is all abuzz about Obama. Despite Friday’sContinue reading

Thanks to Julia Chance, who provided this link to a Washington Post article about the recent Karibu Bookstore chain closings. According to the article, co-owner Simba Sana says, “Karibu’s demise is a result of theContinue reading

On January 23rd, Audrey Edwards forwarded The Independent newspaper article to me, a racist satire full of nearly every stereotype imaginable, and I wrote about it on my blog that same day. Sheryl Huggins ofContinue reading

Shocking news below: January 22, 2008 Dear Karibu Customer, After 15 years of service within the Washington, DC metropolitan area, Karibu Books, a Black bookstore chain will be closing its doors. We sincerely thank eachContinue reading

Thank you, Audrey Edwards, for sending this article from The Independent. Called “Why I Should be Our Next President,” the “Low Tidings” piece says that Obama gives a speech where he declares: “We be, youContinue reading

Loved it. As my husband said, “It’s not personal, it’s the dozens.” It was like that scene in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, when Janie takes the floor in the public realm of theContinue reading

The Center For Black Literature at MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE presentswww.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc | nbwc@mec.cuny.edu | 718.270.4811 The Ninth National Black Writers Conference: Black Writers: Reading and Writingto Transform Their Lives and the World will offer panel discussions,Continue reading

TERRIE WILLIAMS -Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We?re Not Hurting Wednesday, 1/23, Barnes & Noble ? 82nd Street and Broadway, N.Y. N.Y., 7:00 pm Thursday, 1/24, Hue-Man Bookstore ? 2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd., Harlem,Continue reading

Many of you already read this much talked about piece William Jelani Cobb wrote for The Washington Post. If not, you can read it, and a personal note from him, below. Jelani was also onContinue reading

I’m honored to be on the Host Committee to raise funds for the United Negro College Fund. Please see the invite below, and please come party with a purpose! SHADES OF BLACK 2008 * NYC1stContinue reading

My good friend and Cosmo Girl! magazine Senior Editor Tara Roberts covered the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. She told me that she was shocked at how few reporters from major media actuallyContinue reading

As you can see below, not only will Max Rodriguez of QBR’s Harlem Book Fair and Shirley Jenkins of Solid Gold Travel work out the Harlem Book Fair in Bermuda conflict (that you read onContinue reading

Keli Goff, a political analyst and author who has made numerous appearances on CNN and FOX, posted an (as always) intelligent entry on her blog called “You Gotta Believe.” I think Keli is just terrific.Continue reading