I led a discussion with gifted photographer and filmmaker Nsenga Knight. Her exhibition, “As The Veil Turns: Female Pioneers of the American Muslim Community,” will remain up at Harriet’s Alter Ego, 293 Flatbush between StContinue reading

Many thanks to young journalist Leslie Ann Murray, who wrote a New York Amsterdam News article about me for their Black New Yorkers series. Check out the December 6th – December 12th Am News toContinue reading

Everything that appears below was submitted to the NYABJ listserv on December 2, 2007. (I had to remove his links and provide the hyper-links below.) I know Gary and have met his wife, as IContinue reading

Thank you, Kevin Powell, for sending this important news of filmmaker St. Clair Bourne’s home-going. Please visit Bourne’s site, and read the NY Times obituary. I remember watching a group of 8th graders view Bourne’sContinue reading

I felt slightly disappointed by this NBC Nightly News series. “African American Women and Where They Stand” did not – could not? – offer the level of in-depth analysis and fresh perspective I anticipated. ClearlyContinue reading

Thanks to Joyce Davis of Powerflow Media for Spreading the word on this series, which begins tonight on the NBC Nightly News. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS” SPECIAL FIVE-PART SERIES “AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN: WHERE THEYContinue reading

This morning (at 6:00 am, so I know you missed it!), Fox 5 New York’s “Street Talk” program hosted a discussion of the B-word that featured Essence magazine Executive Editor Vanessa Bush and radio personalityContinue reading

I was so dismayed to hear another symbol of hate, a swastika, was posted on a Columbia University professor’s door. Seething rage within average Americans has fed the Hate Crimes fire. What distinguishes this generationContinue reading

Check out Chris Chambers in a six minute discussion of street fiction recorded by The Back List’s Felicia Pride at The Capital Book Fest. He likens street fiction to twinkies, and talks about Nick Chiles’Continue reading

America failed after 9-11. The media failed because Thinking Journalists were silenced by the corporate interests now controlling the news. Thinking Journalists have mortgages and family obligations and Thinking Journalists aren’t getting any younger, soContinue reading

Dre Oba of The Shield magazine sent this to me. Some of you may have seen it on the Internet already. Either way, please spread the word: Subject: Blackout – November 2, 2007 Date: Mon,Continue reading

As reported today by EUR: JUANITA BYNUM PAYS $32K PROPERTY TAXES: Televangelist says she’ll turn the property into a spa for women. Prophetess Juanita Bynum, 40, says she has paid the back taxes on theContinue reading

The open letters keep coming in… I must admit, I had never heard of Juanita Bynum before the recent news she’s made as a victim of domestic abuse. Black Voices reported she was “beat upContinue reading

Karen Grigsby Bates interviews Terry McMillan, Susan McHenry of Black Issues Book Review (“the industry’s Bible for Black publishing news”), Calvin Reid of Publisher’s Weekly, and Troy Johnson of AALBC.com about the proliferation of streetContinue reading

Thanks to Linda Duggins for sending this Amy Alexander article to me: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071029/alexander Terry McMillan vs. Ghetto Lit Amy Alexander Almost two years have passed since writer Nick Chiles published a New York Times op-edContinue reading

Stacey Patton, author of the powerful memoir That Mean Old Yesterday, wrote a concise New York Times article about what she perceives as the failures of the Montclair, New Jersey Historical Society to preserve theContinue reading