Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Vision on February 2010

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A young man I know, who has taught me much in the last couple of years as he sought, himself, to learn, wrote this recently and gave me perm...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Oil in Haiti? What a Surprise. Not!

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A friend of mine in Haiti sent me the link to this article by Jerry Mazza a few days ago. It suggests that Haiti has as much oil as Venezu...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same

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An acquaintance of mine that I've only seen a couple of times, but who occasionally sends me interesting information, sent me a link thi...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Nazaury Delgado: The Phoenix Rises

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One of the beauties of the struggle is that we often get to see, glimmering through the ugliness, the stunning magnificence of the human spi...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Faubourg Treme': the Untold Story of New Orleans

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"Faubourg Treme': The Untold Story of Black New Orleans" has been out since 2008 and appeared on PBS as early as January o...
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Monday, February 01, 2010

Once Social Change Begins...

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"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the p...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

My Answer to "An Honest Heartfelt Inquiry"

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Last night, an anonymous commentator on this post wrote: After reading this I must admit, I feel that I've for a long time been, well, ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Prom Night in Mississippi

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It isn't often that I watch a movie twice. I don't mean to disparage filmmakers. I do own films that I've seen many times for on...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Mr. Wendal, et al (of us?)

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As things get worse and worse in our communities (and unemployment just got worse in 43 states out of 50 ), more and more of us become incre...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010

To Kill or Not To Kill -- THAT Is The Question

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The United States is one of the few countries left in the world that executes people. In fact, more than 92% of the world's executions i...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Tamara K. Nopper: To White Anti-Racists

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As you know, I rarely print a whole essay or post by somebody else and would not, frankly, have done it here except that I couldn't esta...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Ya basta! It is enough!

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A friend of mine, watching a special on Martin Luther King, Jr. the other day with her oldest grandson, was startled when he turned to her a...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Help for Haiti

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For the past two days, I've been thinking about how to send some financial help to Haiti. There are many organizations scrambling for fu...
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Things Gonna Change

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Things are, as John Lee Hooker tells us here with the help of Carlos Santana, gonna change. And when they do, what are we going to be able t...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Tout moun se noun. (All people are human beings.)

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The boys and young men in Port-au-Prince that I have come to think of as my sons are quiet now. I don't know what...or how...to think. I...
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Sunday, January 10, 2010

A Call to Action

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Sometime last fall, I was making my rounds of the blogosphere (something I've been embarrassingly remiss in doing over the past year), a...
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