Thursday, December 31, 2009

Taking a Moment to Reflect

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As the old year slips away and the new one slides into place, let's consider this painting by Goya and this line attributed to Rebecca A...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

Masks

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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." -James Baldwin I got an email this week...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ronald Darensburg, R.I.P.

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I've pretty much accepted that some White people call me a "race traitor." I don't hear it as often as I hear "she ha...
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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Change, huh? Say Goodnight, Gracie.

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Since hearing that Obama has decided to send an additional 30,000 troops into Afghanistan, I've been thinking about what I could do to e...
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Friday, December 04, 2009

Remembering a Prince and the Ones Who Took Him From Us

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When Lawrence Hill Books sent me a copy of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther b...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

One Love

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Sometimes we think love only has to do with big red lips on a movie screen or particular body parts. Most of us have been socialized -- at l...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

For the Men at J.B. Evans Correctional Center

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I know I'm supposed to be thinking warm, fuzzy thoughts tonight as I look forward to sitting around a table full of food tomorrow with p...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Readin', Writin', 'Rithmetic and Racism

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As some of My Faithful Readers know, one of the things I think a lot about and have focused on fairly continually since I arrived in Louisia...
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

I Got the Blues

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I've been ranting about the socially-constructed, political notion of race in four of my classes over the past week and talking about ra...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

The Bride and Groom Jump the Broom...Anyway

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I tend not to rat myself out too often on this blog. My identity, what I look like, my specific location, my place of employment, whatever -...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Leonard Peltier is Obama's Political Prisoner Now

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For my third post this week, I'm reproducing Native American activist Leonard Peltier's letter of response after his "parole...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Time to learn sign language?

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A couple of days ago, I posted a piece by Jim Ridgeway on private soldiers killing U.S. citizens in New Orleans without consequence. Today, ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Hidden History of Katrina

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In the interest of priming the pump, as it were, after a few months of spending virtually all of my time elsewhere, I'm going to post so...
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