Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Brotha Wolf Is Tired

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As my regular readers know, I sometimes get down off my soapbox just long enough to make room for another blogger to have his o...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Kamau Bell for President...?

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What with all the intensity of the debates and such, I thought it might be a good time to lighten things up a tad in the political arena. So...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

On This Day in History

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On October 9, 1990, the United States government began making $20,000 payments to Japanese-Americans who had suffered internment in concen...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

White History Month...?

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"One of the things that most afflicts this country is that White people don’t know who they are or where they come from. That’s w...
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Sunday, September 30, 2012

"Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal"

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I am re-posting here an interview Angola 3 News did with filmmakers Noelle Hanrahan and Steve Vittorio about their new documentary ...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Conference: "The Business of Incarceration in Louisiana: Do Prisoners Have Human Rights?"

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With one out of every 86 adults behind bars, the State of Louisiana has more people incarcerated per capita than any other societal group ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Skin Deep

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Saturday, September 08, 2012

A Letter to White Southern Women from Anne Braden

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As I mention from time to time, I've been studying the socially-constructed, political notion of "race" for fifty years no...
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

White Denial (cont'd)

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Monday, September 03, 2012

White Denial and a Culture of Stereotypes

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One topic I have to keep coming back to over and over, it seems, is the topic of White denial. What I mean by this is that many White pe...
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Saturday, September 01, 2012

Power to the Online People

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As many of you know, I live 45 miles north of New Orleans, so this has been a tough week. No lights. No air-conditioning. No internet. So ha...
Sunday, August 26, 2012

Discipline and Race: The Newest Jim Crow

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I read this in March, but it's beyond crucial information on the racialization of school discipline and was covered by Glen Ford at B...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

"Real" vs. "Casual Racism"

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I don't watch The Today Show or anything else early in the morning. I have other things to do. More than I can get done, as a rule. ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

The Danger of the Single Story

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A couple of months ago, I posted a YouTube video about life in the 'hood. It was produced by talented young Black actors, writers, di...
Saturday, August 18, 2012

Standing Up To Bullies In Church

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It's always fun to see what new application of the same old story manages to hit the radar here in this part of the woods. Recen...
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

To Rage Or Not To Rage...?

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I've been thinking a lot lately about the level of my passion. When I teach. When I speak. When I blog. When I'm on F...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Pretty Is As Pretty Does

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If I just can't get here the way I need to on top of what I am being "forced" to write at In-Your-Face Women  these days,...
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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...