After Obama’s thrilling speech, one of the finest speeches in American history, a speech New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof compared to Kennedy’s speech on Catholicism and called “a symphony,” a speech theContinue reading

Please listen to my NPR “News & Notes” discussion of Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Obama’s speech on race with media assassin Harry Allen, Eric Brown of the Detroit News, and host Farai Chideya. HarryContinue reading

My good friend and Cosmo Girl! magazine Senior Editor Tara Roberts wrote an op-ed piece for TheRoot.com on why she supports Hillary. In it, she asks why race trumps gender and freely imagines a worldContinue reading

Today Barack Obama gave one of the most important speeches in American history. My sense is that Obama is carrying us forward, to a better place, one devoid of racialist thinking. Just stunning. We won’tContinue reading

On Wednesday, March 12th I joined Guardian journalist Gary Younge and BET Vice President of News and Public Affairs Keith Brown in a discussion of Obama and the media. Dr. Noel Anderson organized and moderatedContinue reading

Omar Wasow offers a fresh perspective on the Spitzer Sex Scandal media blitz. Read his short article on TheRoot.com, where he identifies Jack Johnson as the first victim of the Mann Law now being usedContinue reading

The finest show in American television history ended last night. HBO’s The Wire expressed life in Baltimore City this B-more girl and proud Westernite can testify is our truth. Props to David Simon for knowingContinue reading

Sheena swings through the jungle again, this time in the Margaret B. Jones memoir, Love & Consequences. Jones’ book explores the real-life experiences of a part white, part Native American girl taken in by aContinue reading

Anthony Bradley sent this YouTube video to me, which purports to expose inherent racism at Planned Parenthood. In it, a white male calls to donate to the organization and specifically requests that his cash donationContinue reading

For those folk who feel this presidential race is only about white women and Black men, read on. This race is, absolutely, about a Black woman. Indeed, it is about all Black women. For proof,Continue reading

Dedicated to the Centennial of Richard Wright The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY MARCH 28th – MARCH 30th, 2008 Registration ends March 15, 2008 Phone: 718.270.4811 Website: www.mec.cuny.edu/nbwc Email address: nbwc@mec.cuny.eduContinue reading

Thanks, Marcia Mayne of Date with a Book for sending me this discussion between Randall Kennedy and John McWhorter on Black Sellouts. Thanks, Rob Fields, Bridgett Davis, and Stacey Patton, for sending me StuffWhitePeopleLike.com. Funny!Continue reading

I’ve never visited this campus personally, but I did receive this appeal and thought I would share it with the world: Dear Friends and Colleagues: As you may already know I am the Principal ofContinue reading

My friend in college, Yunus, once told me there was a town in Japan named Kuma Moto, which, in his family’s home language of Swahili, means “hot vagina.” Don’t know if this translation is accurateContinue reading

Sofia Quintero recently commented on my blog post entitled “There’s a Conversation Going on About Black Books” and mentioned this project. These sisters are reaching our youth with their writing and their activism. Please seeContinue reading

Eric Brown of The Detroit News, Jasmyne Cannick, and I sat at NPR’s Bloggers’ Roundtable yesterday. Listen to the 16 minute audio discussion of two topics of interest: Tavis Smiley’s recent invitation to Barack ObamaContinue reading

Thanks to Imani Wilson for telling me about this fellowship: ANNOUNCING NEW WRITING FELLOWSHIPS The Leon Levy Center for Biography at the Graduate Center, CUNY invites applications for writing fellowships for the academic year beginningContinue reading