Several folk have sent this LA Times link to me, but in case you missed it, seems Deborah Gregory was cheated out of major money because of a back-end contract for her Cheetah Girls series.Continue reading

ASPIRING WRITER EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP ?Call for Entries? The nation?s largest reading group for Black women The Go On Girl! Book Club, Inc. invites you to write your way to $500! Founded in 1990, The GoContinue reading

Linda Villarosa reported on the launch of ringShout: A Place for Black Books on TheDailyVoice.com. In “Books in da Hood,” Villarosa explores the proliferation of street lit and asks what constitutes literary work. Bridgett DavisContinue reading

Mr. Kirkland is one of our finest principals, and he continues the tradition launched by his amazing activist predecessor, former MS 113 principal Ms. Colbert, by sending a group of 13-year-olds on a college tourContinue reading

Si, se puede! http://www.dipdive.com/ Thanks, Rosie and Sharon, for sending this to me. 🙂

The Indo-American Arts Council is offering support to playwrights. Click on the link to download the application. Thanks to Linda Duggins for sending this info. Good luck! PLAYWRIGHTS’ WEEK 2008DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO MARCHContinue reading

Michael Chabon calls it like it is (a Phobocracy!) on WashingtonPost.com.Thanks to Bridgett Davis for sending this to me. And, sent to me by Dr. Brenda Greene, from MC Talib Kweli: It is the lastContinue reading

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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