Saturday, June 30, 2012

Beauty and the Beat

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After seeing this on Facebook and watching it twice, I showed it to Boxer, who said, "Show it again" and then, "You gotta p...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Have You Heard About The Slaughter?

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What if the U.S. military shot to death and disappeared the bodies of more than one thousand Black soldiers at an Army camp in southwes...
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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Born to Fight

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 The daily demand of In-Your-Face Women is continuing to kick my ass. I'm not complaining, you understand. At least, not most of the...
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

A New Perspective on the Motor City

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I write a lot about the negative effects of five hundred years of aggressive White oppression against people of color.  Here's a stun...
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Momentum for Racial Healing

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A couple of months ago, I took one of my fairly frequent trips down to New Orleans to meet with Southern University Law School Professor A...
Monday, April 23, 2012

The Phoenix Will Rise

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“If you cannot remember or imagine what it is to lie down finally and wait for an end – that or deliverance; if you cannot consciously ...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Release the Angola 3 Now!!

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I will be in class today. I will be talking about religion as a social institution and the sociology of gender. I will be holding office...
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Monday, April 16, 2012

By Way of Explanation

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I have, from time to time, over the six years since I began writing this blog, been less available to it than usual. When this happens, it...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Are African-Americans Citizens Or Not?

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"We refuse to believe this country, so powerful to defend its citizens abroad, is unable to protect its citizens at home." ~I...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Amnesty International Demands That Louisiana Do The Right Thing For The Angola 3!

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The following is the text of a mass email Amnesty International sent out this week. If you didn't receive it or didn't as yet sig...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Skolnik: From Martin to Martin (Hoodies Up On the Mountaintop)

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The following was posted today by Michael Skolnik at Global Grind . Please read and pass it on. The echo of Martin's last words ring ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

How to Get Away With Murder and Other Things the Killing of Unarmed Black Teen Trayvon Martin Teaches Us

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This post by Max Read appeared originally at gawker.com . If you'd like to follow its embedded links, you may find it there. If you...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Technology R Us (Whites, That Is)

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Hope and Hopelessness

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Shuffling around my kitchen this morning before the break of day, I was thinking about a couple of young Black men I spoke with this week...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

It's Not Just Too Short, Y'all. It's Too Little.

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I've been posting on this blog for more than six years now and, as best I can remember, I've never taken on the topic of woman hatin...
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Friday, March 02, 2012

Esperanza Spalding: Black Gold

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

On Being Black and Gay

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Six years ago, when I started this blog, I decided to focus it on the socially-constructed, political notion of "race." Consequen...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I Double Dog Dare Ya!

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Last night and the night before, I watched two separate documentaries that took the top of my head off. So you know you're gonna hear a...
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The Framing of Kevin Cooper

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If I read in its entirety every email I get about issues around the globe, I would have to quit my day job and get paid just to read.  I do ...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

How I Feel

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Just in case you're unclear about it..