Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/23/study-of-remains-of-the-pueblo-reveals-causes%E2%80%94and-possible-cures%E2%80%94for-diabetes-epidemic-130651 The future health of Natives may lie in the scatological remains of the past?a vanguard study of ancient excrement has offered fresh new ways of thinking about the prevalence of diabetes among NativeContinue reading
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Eisa’s Blog Entries from 2006-2018
Native Cry Outreach has new PSA Aimed at Native Americans Considering Suicide
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/08/06/watch-native-cry-outreach-alliances-gripping-psa-for-natives-contemplating-suicide-127501 Native Cry Outreach Alliance, an organization dedicated to suicide prevention within the Native American community, has produced a gripping new public service announcement (PSA) aimed at Natives who are considering taking their ownContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Super Sophomore Tyler Bray Leads the Tennessee Volunteers”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/09/23/super-sophomore-tyler-bray-leads-the-tennessee-volunteers-55170 Autumn is here and with the change of the leaves and the season comes college football, and with college football comes talk of the Heisman. Who is on your Heisman watch? Is itContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Q&A with Nascar Driver AJ Russell”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/10/30/qa-with-cherokee-nascar-driver-a-j-russell-59418 A.J. Russell, a member of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma, and a pioneering NASCAR driver, has always had racing pumping in his blood. At the age of 7, living in Clovis California, heContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Why Jacoby Ellsbury Should be the American League MVP”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/10/08/why-jacoby-ellsbury-should-be-the-american-league-mvp-56841 Jacoby MaCabe Ellsbury, the first Native American of Navajo descent to reach the Major Leagues and member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, is one of those rare athletes who are good atContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “US Sacred Power Co-Founder Embarks on Nascar Venture”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/11/17/u-s-sacred-power-co-founder-david-melton-embarks-on-nascar-venture-62716 ?Using the strengths of the Father to protect the gifts of the Mother? is the philosophy of Sacred Power Corporation, the largest Native-owned-and-operated renewable-energy systems integration and manufacturing firm in the U.S. SacredContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “The Hope Segun Foundation Targets Native Youth with Outreach Program”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/11/21/the-hope-segun-foundation-targets-native-youth-with-outreach-program-63040 The Hope Segun Foundation has recently launched an outreach program that targets Native American youth. The foundation is named after its founder, Hope Segun, a 6ft 11in Nigerian who came to the UnitedContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Montana Senator Sheds Light on Chippewa Cree’s Plain Green Loans”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/27/montana-senator-sheds-light-on-chippewa-crees-plain-green-loans-74957 Because of growing restrictions on payday loans, banks and payday lenders are teaming up with American Indian businesses. Indian country offers a loophole, sovereign immunity, that shields companies from the U.S. government?s mandatedContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Canada, US, and New Zealand Indigenous Groups to Start an Aborignal-Owned Chartered Bank in Canada”
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/07/26/canada-u-s-and-new-zealand-indigenous-groups-to-start-an-aboriginal-owned-chartered-bank-in-canada-125660 A document historic in the realm of Native American and First Nations finance was signed in Winnipeg, Canada on July 17. The Aboriginal financial institution Tribal Wi-Chi-Way-Win Capital Corporation (TWCC), is leading aContinue reading
ICTMN.com: Young Lakota Activist Campaigns to Make Plan B Available, Affordable to Native Women
This post originally appeared on IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com. A 26-Year-Old Lakota Activist Campaigns to Make Plan B Available, Affordable to Native WomenBy Eisa Ulen July 12, 2012 Sunny Clifford, a 26-year-old Pine Ridge Tribal park ranger, hasContinue reading
Guest Blog from Ralph Richardson (my husband): “Top 25 African American Films of all Time”
This post from 2012 originally appeared on TheDefendersOnline.com. By Ralph Richardson While I was organizing and agonizing over this very important list of Top 25 African American films of all time, I used some parametersContinue reading
Guest Blog Written by Ralph Richardson (my husband) – “Legendary Footprints: The Apollo Walk of Fame”
This post originally appeared on TheDefendersOnline.com. Legendary Footprints: The Apollo Walk of Fame Posted By The Editors | June 2nd, 2010 | Category: LDF Voices | No Comments » Print This Post By Ralph RichardsonContinue reading
Our Public Farewell: We Love you, Erica Kennedy. Always.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eisa-ulen/eisa-ulen-remembers-her-friend-erica-kennedy_b_1644717.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices This article originally ran on TheHuffingtonPost.com. Eisa Ulen Remembers Her Friend, Erica KennedyPosted: 07/03/2012 12:35 am I do not want to write in the past tense. I must use the past tense notContinue reading
Our Black Rock Roots and Wings
By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, published in The Defenders Online, November 18th, 2009 Rock and Roll is falsely thought of as white music—and not just by white people. Black folk have tended to identify Rock andContinue reading
Two Hearts. One Heartbeat: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Rate Higher Among Native Americans
Link: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/09/05/fetal-alcohol-syndrome-rate-higher-among-american-indians-48085 A mother rouses from sleep, cradles her newborn infant and yawns. She then gets up and carries the baby, all soft and not quite ready to wail for food, into the kitchen. SheContinue reading
Hollyhood: Real Life in La La Land
By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, originally published on TheDefendersOnline.com As we digest and debate the results of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards—including the racial aspects of various wins and nominations—Hollywood insider Valerie Joyner’s debut novel, Hollyhood,Continue reading
The Black Book at 35: Still Rich, Relevant, and Revealing
By Eisa Nefertari Ulen – Published in The Defenders Online, February 9th, 2010 In the early 1970s, during the height of the Black Arts Movement, a group of scholars decided to document the African-American experience.Continue reading
Review of Tara Betts’ Arc & Hue
By Eisa Nefertari Ulen, published in The Defenders Online, February 23rd, 2010 In her debut collection of poetry, Arc & Hue, Tara Betts articulates deeply-felt human emotion in a lyrical, beautiful way. Betts is aContinue reading