Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2008 | 11 Comments »
The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing in the Seventies and Eighties
We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974…involved in the process of defining and clarifying our politics, while…doing political work within our own group and in coalition with other progressive organizations and movements…. [W]e see Black feminism [...]
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A construction worker who just so happens to be down on his luck discovers a pair of special sunglasses that allows him to see the world as it really is. People are being constantly bombarded by various media with subliminal messages such as conform, stay asleep, no imagination, submit to authority, marry and reproduce, consume, [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I found this excellent book about Black Britain in my university library. It tells the history of this microcosm in images. Here are a few images I have scanned if anyone is interested!
1) This was a young Shirley Bassey, who is now Dame Shirley Bassey and still going strong at 71 . One of the voices [...]
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Posted in African-Americans, AfroSphere, Black History, Blogging, Christianity, Crime, Culture, Education, Golf, History, Holocaust, Justice, Law, Life, News, Politics, Racism, Religion, Sports, Tiger Woods on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
They always operated within the realm of darkness. Whether it was under the cover of the darkness of night or during a bright sunny day under the darkness of hate… their ultimate goal was to spread the darkness of fear.
They would seize upon their Black prey like a pack of hyenas with an insatiable thirst for blood. His only crime: being a [...]
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A Day of Hope for the Child in America - by Eddie Griffin, BASG
It wasn’t just the blustering winds and frigid temperature that had my eyes watering as we rolled down Main Street. It was the children, those little innocent spectators waving and cheering on the sideline- and about the youngsters who strutted ahead of [...]
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“Think of it as a [Monopoly] game. The rules are the same for everyone, but the hard fact is that you weren’t allowed to play for a while. Now you can play, but because you’re bitter about being excluded you [want] the rules slanted in your favor.” – H.R. in a response to theblacksentinel
The quotation [...]
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Posted in African-Americans, AfroSphere, Blogroll, Golf, History, Life, News, Racism, Sports, Tiger Woods on January 18, 2008 | 11 Comments »
“We knew that image would grab attention, but I didn’t anticipate the enormity of it,” Dave Seanor, vice president and editor of the weekly magazine, said from the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. “There’s been a huge, negative reaction,” he said. “I’ve gotten so many e-mails. It’s a little overwhelming.”
Read article here.
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Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I love this political season because so many people are having race-vs-gender types of conversations. Although of late it has turned ugly and mean-spirited as if somehow not talking about race and gender make it all just magically go away like in a fairy-tale…but I digress.
I would add that I am fine with folks voting their gender [...]
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Posted in African-Americans, BET, Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Life, Martin Luther King, News, racist exploitation, tagged Dr. King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., MLK on January 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today is Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior’s seventy ninth birthday. Just in time for the latest political spat between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It seems that Ms. Clinton is being taken to task because she had the audacity to suggest that Doctor King’s dream for a united America started to become real when [...]
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Are we angels or devils
Being Human
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