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
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Eisa’s Blog Entries from 2006-2018
My Friend, the Fashion Diva!
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
Guest Blog: Filmmaker and Author Bridgett Davis on the 10th Year Anniversary of her Film, “Naked Acts”
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLlc9-RvXZ4 NAKED ACTS 10 YEARS LATER When my film Naked Acts premiered at the Thalia Theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan 10 years ago, it felt bold and daring to debut aContinue reading
Guest Blog: “Buy a Book by Somebody Black and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month”
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
Check out the new NAACP Legal Defense Fund Blog
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
Fort Greene Celebrates Obama Victory
Yes, we did! On Lafayette and on DeKalb – we spread love. It’s the Brooklyn way. 1 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbJWJsbqXo0&feature=related 1 minute video (with cop): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrzma0xcacc&feature=related 3 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8fZTdkaN3A&feature=related 2 minute video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKHXa8IIG_c&feature=related 10Continue reading
Yes, We Did!
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
Voting Today
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
Post-Obama Discussion at Brooklyn College
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
Sarah Palin Punked by Canadian DJs
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGRHUht6fg&feature=related The day before the most important election of our lifetime, and I know I’m supposed to blog something incredibly deep and meaningful, but I couldn’t pull off anything better than this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eGRHUht6fg&feature=related. PleaseContinue reading
LGBT and African American Californians Battle in Wake of Prop 8 Decision
Link: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96916812 Please listen to this 16 minute “News & Notes” Bloggers’ Roundtable by clicking the link above. From NPR.org.: News & Notes , November 12, 2008 · On today’s bloggers’ roundtable: President-elect Barack ObamaContinue reading
Wassup? Charles Stone III and Crew Revisit that Ubiquitous Question…
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE … and get a slightly different answer 8 years later. Please click the link above, which Michaela angela Davis sent to me, and check out one of the best shorts this year.
Democrats Abroad
Link: http://blip.tv/file/1338283 With the McCain campaign’s renewed racialism ripping old scars on the American psyche, it might be nice to view this video by clicking the link above. My uncle sent it to me, and,Continue reading
Recent Brooklyn Democratic Congressional Candidate Kevin Powell on the NYC Term Limits Controversy
The following statement comes from writer Kevin Powell: We Want Democracy, Mayor BloombergBy Kevin Powell In a political year where millions of new voters are going to the polls because they believe in democracy, becauseContinue reading
Best Video: McCain and War, and War, and War…
From: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/9/9/591906/- View video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w Comment(s) Comment(s) § nana said on : 10/31/08 @ 19:47 This video should run nationally!
Race, Media, and Politics: Omar Wasow Moderated Panel at the Time Warner Politics 2008 Summit
Yesterday I attended Day Two of the Time Warner Politics 2-day Summit. I eagerly looked forward to attending the “Race, Politics, and Media” panel, as I had been dissatisfied with the discourse on race thatContinue reading
Donna Brazile is Not Going to the Back of the Bus
Link: http://jezebel.com/5059945/donna-brazile-is-not-going-to-the-back-of-the-bus Gwen Ifill, Campbell Brown, and Sister Brazille…. women I love to see, hear, work, engage, and represent. Enjoy this short, powerful video author Bridgett Davis sent to me: http://jezebel.com/5059945/donna-brazile-is-not-going-to-the-back-of-the-bus. Go, Obama. Go!
Call the Feds! Time to Curb the McCain Campaign
Thinly veiled hate speech communicated through code has stoked the worst of American racism and violence at McCain town halls this week. Word choices like “dangerously unprepared,” “domestic terrorist Bill Ayers,” “radical,” and “risky” inContinue reading