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Everything's wittier when posted in Twitter
August's austere and lonely offices
Multi-tab pileup incapacitates browsers, takes days to untangle
A ghetto-fabulous conceptualism — based on reality and the intricacies of daily life.
Inside the country club and outside the baseline
I feel victorious that what I sacrificed myself for is now right in name.
Mes cousins jamais nés hantent les nuits des Duvalier
Steve Gilliard
'If you look at the African-American audience, there is room for several networks'
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout: square biz
So many causes lie in how we treat one another
'The symphony is like a big ship, and it takes a while to turn it around.'
They know that a Republican appointed me, but they still don’t know what I am.
Rounding the bases on a thoroughbred bay
In preservation, you don't have the luxury of time.
Tells us a great deal, but not everything that we would like to know.
We come in many different shades. But then again, how many white people are really white.
Either wish me well, go to hell or ...
Measuring Mahoning County
Standing in front of people and asking them to like you
You can't get a white actor to play Idi Amin. You can't get a white actor to play Ray Charles.
Surveyed 1,590 black, white and Hispanic youth nationwide between the ages of 15 and 25
A moral compass for America, always pointing us in the direction of truth
There was a time
That's the other side of being in the driver's seat.
Saddened but hopeful at the same time, just like we are.
There's no mourning, no lament. It's all about thanksgiving, joy, anticipation.
Has handled hundreds of services, mainly for African Americans in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond.
There was certainly some short-term political calculation in being photographed among smiling black faces.
More prevalent than they were 30 years ago, and the bond among them remains strong.
Portable heating fires are more deadly than others
Going to focus on the Fifth Congressional District.
Just look at the black people if you're unsure whether to laugh.
Has been providing that room for poets of African American descent
But of course most American media do not say "Malawi"; they just say "Africa."
Shown a flair for seizing opportunities and making the most of them
Nobody noted the significance, but it stared us all in the face
'We've seen the Republican Party use black people to get our votes and disappear.'
Fortunately, the founding fathers’ concept is constantly being updated and revised.
Not going to make anybody write home and say 'Wow, we need to vote Republican.'
Dialing "M" for miscegenation
One of those things one learns over time, I guess
As long as there are people in grass skirts beating drums, the audience is supposed to understand that it's Africa.
Someone who might not be 'black' in the sense of an African or African American, but who certainly was not white.
Comfort ourselves, look back with a less impassioned eye and exalt our commonality.
Celebrated in the same ’hood for her ambition and love of luxury.
Keenly aware of how little access even the great icons of Black America had to mass media.
I just couldn't manage to make the line "This toilet paper is so soft" sound inner-city.
"Plus, we tend to just accept life and live with whatever we might be going through."
Scholars don't embrace the concept that the equipment that a DJ uses is a musical instrument.
Too often choose to go it alone because they're shut out of other routes to the top.
Africa: our genocides tend to happen away from television cameras
I'm going to end up going out of state. And once that happens I'm going to just change my identity.
It's not terrorism that is holding people hostage -- it's fear.
The 2006 Black Weblog Awards
How these new Latino immigrants situate themselves vis-à-vis black Americans.
We said, ‘Wow, she’s really funny.’ And she happened to be black.
They didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on them.
A full-service delivery system to identify, prepare, and carry black muscle to 'market.'
Offended by someone who appears to be a contradiction.
'A lot of the value in having a mayor who's African-American is symbolic.'
To reveal that race, far from being a special or marginal concern, was a central facet of the American story.
The connection between black viewers and black contestants was particularly strong.
People are egocentric. They assume others experience stimuli the same way they do.
"So many of us are struggling to make it day by day."
Sexualizing a larger black body signalled the end of her Idol fantasy.
'Ladies, when you wear this silver fox-trimmed silver brocade jacket, you will never be mistaken for the maid.'
'Lorna is not simply giving you this easy image of the body.'
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.
Either we'll all become "Americans," or you and I will be searching for a terminology that suits us.
"In America, which I love from the depths of my heart and soul, when you look like me, you're black."
43.3 percent of black men and 41.9 percent of black women have never been married.
Who reads this site?
92 black men for every 100 single women in their 20's of the same race or ethnicity.
"They told me, 'This can't be your passport. There are no blacks in Argentina.'"
Remains the foundation stone on which we must build the future.
Each and every one of them must become the intellectual and spiritual leader they have been looking for.
'I love this country, but how do you love someone or something that doesn't respond to your best interests?'
There are no more 27-year-old left-handed guitar players from Seattle.
2008? My head is not there yet. I'm right here in 2005.
"We're not all black anymore. Didn't you get the memo?"
A workable Wilsonian democracy, pt. 3.
Not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.
Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
I will slap your name out the phone book and call Ma Bell and tell her I did it.
Find the individual bloggers and activists who are concerned.
The link between conspiracy theories and oppression is as old as racial conflict.
'You can think of it as the birthplace of African-American librarianship'
Pushing the discussion down to the personal, to the visceral.
For all too many Americans they are the "Other," unlike us.
Consumed most of eastern New Orleans, the hub of the city's black professional class.
It's a racism of nuance. Every Frenchman would immediately say, 'One of my closest friends is black.'
Tell them that getting New Orleans' people back is just as important as getting its buildings rebuilt.
'When I see these displaced people, wandering in a daze, I do go back to our roots, to the auction block.'
To pay your way and your homeboy's way and sometimes your cousin's way.
The question of race puts them right back in the main channel of discontent in this country.
Be prepared to bring the real world into the classroom.
'Because I'm also an American, I am a Southerner and I am an African American. And yeah, I care about how this comes out.'
But now that the aid is pouring in, vital as it is, do not confuse charity with justice.
Nobody knows how many now lie in the waters of flooded New Orleans.
'New Orleans is ready to be rebuilt. Let's start right here.'
Really calls for reflection that is deeper than mere recrimination.
'We are a population in this country of black people, but do we feel like a community?'
'We had nothing before the hurricane. Now we got less than nothing.'
Now I know how Halle Berry felt at that Oscars podium.
That was Kanye West, not Cornel West -- Kanye West.
'We dance at funerals, and now we have to dance at our own funeral.'
'When you look at who is left behind, it is very disturbing to me.'
'In New Orleans it's really the reverse, that water flows away from money.'
'But it does go to show you that racism ain't everywhere.'
"What I wouldn't pay to hear a Fox anchor ask, 'Say, Bob, why are these African-Americans so poor to begin with?'"
'It don't matter what color you are. I hope I'm not being naive. I truly don't think I am.'
Which leads me to wonder why black-oriented magazines are not filling in the gap.
They assume there is only one form of language that is correct or proper.
'They know, but they believe: It's not going to happen to me. It happens. Human issues happen.'
Ceci, ce n'est pas un poste.
'The main message is self-love, and that people need to appreciate their uniqueness in a constantly shifting culture.'
We are not stereotypes and will not be bound by them.
'This is an acknowledgment of an entire area of the world and a heritage and multiple countries. This is not a racial thing.'
On nature, stature and nomenclature.
'We're writing about things on a little deeper level.'
'A generation of individuals who, in their mind, are very far removed from the civil rights movement.'
'If you want to reach the black family, you really need to connect with women.'
And I've never seen a child in the U.S. nearly as hungry as the ones I saw in Niger. Not close.
'The young girls and boys who constantly take jazz every day and night are absolutely becoming bad, and some criminals.'
'They are heirs of a common experience. They're part of the broader American story.'
There is more to marketing to black consumers than just community relations.
Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
John H. Johnson, 1918-2005.
'To know there are other folks of color that are involved in something you enjoy is great.'
'To imply that there aren't enough nonwhite authors in S.F. would just mean ... well, one hadn't read enough of it.'
'If we Africans are to develop, we must want to get our hands dirty.'
But we should all be concerned with one word. A small one: Even.
Either take it for granted, look at it as part of something larger or ignore it altogether.
'If I can just complexify things, that'd be good. I've got to keep eroding that stone of monolithism.'
'They want to go places that tell them more about blacks than slavery. They want to hear about the progress they made after slavery.'
'They're black, and we're black, too. Why should we fight over a street name?'
'Everything that ends up being cool in this country comes out of black culture first.'
Museums housing (boy) kings.
'To sensationalise it because it's in an African context smacks of discrimination.'
Dig into their family history and maintain bonds with far-flung relatives.
Born on the fourteenth of July, pt. 2.
'It's time to start getting down to the nitty-gritty.'
'I'm really happy that I grew up during segregation.'
Now people think it charming when they find out that I grew up black, Southern and atheist.
As if by some unheard signal, everyone stood and raised their hands above their shoulders.
Six ways of looking at a black consumer.
Pills and thrills and black films won't kill. Hang tough, children.
When you make the decision to leave politics out of anything you do, then that's a political act in itself.
It is counterintuitive to believe that ethnic consumers want less marketing.
Encouraging a cross-border conversation about race in all its complexities.
'To expand their concept of what's 'all-American' and to see everybody's story as valid.'
'Let's hope they inform themselves ... and later form an opinion.'
'Well, surely the judge knows something I don't know.'
'Maybe that's why, I don't know. Or maybe we're just spoiled.'
'Seems that the sources of mistrust are deeper than any particular event.'
'It's a matter of how you organize them and get them going.'
'I'm not somebody who uses race to score political points--quite the opposite.'
The Internet reverberating with a chorus of girrrrrrlllll.
'Can learn a lot of American history from the study of African-American experience within that history.'
To survey, with love.
De rigueur Pride-season must-reads.
'Certainly, it would be a very different country.'
About three days' worth of post-Juneteenth linkage.
'They're not here for the hot dogs. They're here for the drivers.'
'Excluding minds that could be thinking up a new and more competitive Brazil.'
Y'all need hugs.
Chicago Defender podcast.
'But it is truly an African-American instrument.'
'I was well connected with my natural surroundings growing up.'
Good readin' has been in effect. Go get a day pass.
Because I already learned English in my country.
'If we're not counted, there's no way to really convince people that we actually exist.'
Just use it very simply as a way to talk about what was a more complicated realm.
'I saw these guys as bluesmen with a paintbrush.'
But the movie industry is still too craven to imitate life.
'They don't see the relevance until it's shown to them.'
Does not want this new information to change his identity.
Put global warming and climate change in a form that is palatable to black communities.
Offers lazy students a chance to play their very own race card.
In the way they know how the water moves beneath their common ground.
'It never occurred to me that I'd fall in love with a Negro.'
End-of-month blowout omnibus linkage.
'You want to make sure this kind of dehumanizing, embarrassing stuff isn't repeated.'
'Takes on the world and has to grow and has to kind of assimilate all sorts of folks.'
If it's talking bad about black folks, I'm cool with obscurity.
It's because I love black women that I can't like this diary of a mad black one.
A lot of catching up to do, pt. 1
Taking notice.
'Because if we get robbed, our stuff is not as nice.'
The data may be suggestive of a pattern.
'Gives a whole new meaning to the roof, the roof is on fire.'
'The key thing in many black minds is that it's still the Republican Party.'
Let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality.
Inspired to join the conversation.
But then these were also frightening times.
Rashawn Brazell.
'He leapfrogs over the things that separate us and makes it possible for us all to feel kinship.'
'Mr. Charles put his money where his heart and mouth was.'
'Sometimes if you have a chance to go home again, you take it.'
'Behind almost every successful African-American, there is a Pullman porter.'
'Didn't she have the right to write what she wanted?'
Until you do, please, no more crocodile tears for my posse and me.
'We're working on the brown national anthem.'
I will say that it's a very interesting word.
Since I've been living in the dark lately.
Seems to have overtaken and diminished the central importance of black history.
But like any other product, you have to introduce it.
May mark the turning point in that conversation.
'I assumed we were all aborting the same.'
In California, there are 84,000 farms, but fewer than 380 black farmers.
'I need to get myself together before I bring kids into the picture.'
If the details are not captured and recorded, the story is lost.
'We don't know what's going to happen 50 years from now.'
'That is not just an issue for academia. It's an issue all over.'
Proved the adage that the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
'Just because we went to the house does not mean we had intercourse.'
And, ultimately, demanding acceptance on their own terms.
Should force us to rethink how we measure social equity.
We may well be looking at 'Condi Month.'
A whole world out there that is struggling to reach the center.
I'm Black or African-American in the U.S.A. However, in Japan, I'm American.
'But I have a fear of failure. I don't want to be another casualty. I will die trying.'
'I'll raise them to be African-something, but ultimately they'll define it for themselves.'
'Reach across the tracks and, at last, shake hands.'
If they want you in the libraries, you're a lot more than a 12-inch single.
Watch as the political currents shift with every click.
I have a lot of friends who seem confused when I tell them I'm a Republican.
'If we're going to be dominant figures, why not be dominant professionally?'
'I've become a noun. And in some cases, I've become a commodity.'
Reality? Television? Show?
Everything I enjoy may be the result of someone else's pain.
Facts, figures and any meaning you care to extrapolate from them.
I'd tell him, 'I'm going to be reading about you someday.'
Thought it would be a cowtown, and far colder than Chicago.
To talk about it is difficult, but the photographs are affirmation.
Have very similar backgrounds that we know very little about.
Almost by default, the semiofficial chronicler of African-American media images.
So much, too, for the unbending, firmly ingrained, immutable understanding.
'As always in parting, we wish you love, peace and soul.'
Outsiders' vantage points.
What I know about cops, ironically, comes from my own gut.
Distress proneness, Alzheimer's and us.
'Social norms, like manners and etiquette, and basic questions of who's responsible for what, get all scrambled.'
'Black audiences are affected by commercial considerations like anyone else.'
Have stirred our Nation's conscience and helped shape our character.
Which I'm sure is precisely the plan.
Live in a segregated world of their own making.
Separate fact from fiction in this delicate conversation.
Thanks for your questions. I have tried to answer them in the spirit they seem to have been offered.
I am afraid more often than not, but I have learned to do it anyway.
They say, 'You have a charming accent.' They never guess it's black Africa.
By the way, yes, the seat next to me on the tram is often empty.
Take a tour through history from the perspective of the black newspaper.
A New Yorker in Atlanta, a Mississippian in Chicago, a Nigerian in Houston, and a Haitian in Miami.
27 days and counting until we can relax again.
'I can't waste love on being middle-of-the-road.'
'It had to be a movement if it was going to be anything at all.'
Grew up dreaming of becoming a police officer.
'My kids have a sense of self-esteem here, a sense of who they are.'
This was a hypnotized experiment to see how close we'd get.
You have to remember that your unconscious is essentially trafficking in stereotypes.
Eat oysters, risotto and lobster and still say things like 'you in the hizzle for shizzle.'
'Xie, xie ni.' 'Bu keqi.' 'You're so weird.'
'My America is different than the one he talks about.'
A workable Wilsonian democracy, pt. 2.
Wonders if i get weirded out by being deemed a Black blogger.
'Involved in notions of style and taste since the very beginning.'
'Where I am, the No. 1 thing is this. This is what I believe. This is what I embrace.'
On behalf of all men who love peace and brotherhood.
And as to why that message hasn't made it through, I don't know, I'm not a pundit.
Talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand.
But who could picture her as president?
Multiple meanings, singular site.
"We're still doing something that hasn't been done very often"
For the moment, let a few words suffice.
Missing 'the historical Johnson,' if you will.
'It wasn't for him to back away just because he was in pain.'
'If you have a lot of rain, people don't go out in the streets and riot'
It's not for any one group of us to decide what blackness gets to be.
I'll just say no. Hope you will do the same.
Protect one another as they watched the night pass until they were free.
'His voice is very, very beautiful, and he has no accent when he speaks Mandarin.'
What works and doesn't work in our communities both gay and at large.
Reconstruct an occasion that connects us to the fact of being black.
'Inclusion has got to be from all angles.'
'We're a wide range of colors, and the Santas reflect that.'
'People tend to network with people like themselves.'
Living by, rather than 'buy,' the Nguzo Saba.
It's not how many people you reach, it's whom you reach.
Dual and multiple affiliations feed our constantly fluid sense of self.
'We can't be absentee Santas, either. We have to step up.'
A workable Wilsonian democracy.
'I want to change my life so my children won't have to go through this.'
Boom, boxed.
'A freshness of attitude that comes with a new administration, we hope.'
That's the beauty of science fiction and fantasy — freedom of invention.
The notion of exceptionalism buries us cyclically.
Oftentimes the predisposition is to paint us into a black or brown corner.
Now, because I am very successfully colonized, I can't go around wearing no yellow suit.
When you're done reading this, drop and give us twenty pushups.
'I mean, it's like this: I'm black, I'm here -- I'm here and I'm black, you feel me?'
'Maybe, we're beginning to take our heads out of the sand.'
Modern Milwaukee falls to the bottom of nearly every index of social distress.
'It wasn't an issue of love. It hardly ever is.'
'Something is going on here that is larger than just this university.'
Eventually hope to become a daily presence there.
Cant approach black voters with the same messages.
Yet, leaders continue to be anointed.
What's black, white and hypocritical all over?
'But they don't always show up when you want them to.'
'There are not white Christians or black Christians, but Christians.'
A home away from home.
'Not meant to be reactionary, not anti-this or that.'
'People just don't live forever.'
Ethnic media editors weigh in.
'You can't take a bunch of people who are inherently secular and change them. You would have to replace them.'
When they haven't gotten church and church together yet.
The actual ballot box gains weren't that significant.
Concerned about being heard at all.
Polls, polls, polls.
Which is to say, none.
A magnet for a better-off, sophisticated crowd.
'Where were they? The same place they had always been on sex: silent and hiding.'
Appeared to be reaching the constituencies he had courted so strongly.
Why are black people paranoid? Ask me again on Nov. 3.
Ballots around the black blogosphere.
It didn't look like caution to him, just racism.
Not only morally despicable and illegal. It is also profoundly racist.
A perfect storm of issues.
Like choosing a casket or sending flowers.
'A certain amount of black ambivalence in terms of election-year issues."
A new twist on the image of the black male.
'Not your normal realism, your fourth wall, what-you-see-is-what-you-get kind of play.'
What I had always thought was going on and what was really going on.
The specificity of colors he so easily accessed.
Bitter, sweet and every note in between.
As much a game of tiny gains this year as giant leaps.
Culture is as ever-changing and dynamic as it has always been.
'Salva is bringing the water!'
'When Muslims become concrete, then prejudices begin to fade.'
Should serve as a link between Africans and African-Americans.
Footloose and fancy free, Freelon groovy.
'Show me another country act with a black person in it!'
Denied the automatic advantage that black candidates usually have with blacks.
Only the voices, working harder and harder to be heard.
'Where everyone is a player and everyone is at the table.'
Worthy of a scholarly treatment.
The diversity of the Bush administration fades.
Certainly overt, but it was also subtle, covert.
'Traveling around the world, turning halftime shows inside out? Go figure.'
A black man in a green field with the bright sun on his face.
The talk at places like Mort's could get a whole lot hotter.
'There's so much stuff going on. I want a say-so. I want to make a difference.'
Essence and sensibility.
'I'm still undecided and not excited about the race.'
'I took that shackle off my foot and walked away.'
A sound that lifts us up together and gives us hope for a better tomorrow.
The Old English "acsian," a nonstandard form of "ascian," the root of "ask."
Has average really become too much to ask for?
Childe Roland to the Chicago Defender came.
'I have a few in my collection to remind me how the black doll has evolved.'
'To the point that the extraordinary becomes almost common.'
'Black, brown, white: If you're cool in the water, we're cool with you.'
There is such a thing, after all, as the new South.
'There's just a big dance every time this happens.'
Much of our story revolves around their love and theft.
'The main thing I wanted to do was to resurrect what Baldwin had to say.'
You're sayin' that my love ain't real. Just look at my face, these tears ain't dryin'.
The high-fashion glossy is its own animal.
Mainstream polls, which really only take the pulse of some of America.
'You can't literally replace people like Bobo and Morgan'
Fire at Afropunk space.
And everyone, of all shades and shapes and textures, laughed.
It isn't that the candidates won't call. It's just that they're calling collect.
Just on the term of 'African American' and 'Black.'
Drew them closer to both of the roles - and each other.
The nation anxiously awaits the answers to these urgent social questions.
A connection with them and America through jazz that they've never forgotten.
Any road up.
Clearly laying out the case.
How culture develops and is loaded with racist overtones to boot.
Would bring quite different life experiences to the table.
'We're all black and we all need the same opportunities.'
A conversation about Arab racism that is long past overdue.
'This is our first restored African-American cemetery.'
'Therefore, there's meaning beyond the melanin.'
Geraty v. Goodwine.
Sail away.
Once again, Giuliani time.
Peace be upon you Brother Ray.
Strategy that focuses on substance, not symbolism.
'From that process alone we'll grow, learn and convey our complexity as a people.'
Incorporating the new without abandoning what is known.
When we are focused and working in harmony we will achieve unity.
Blackly enterprising.
Behind every great man, and so on.
Race is the primary factor in the political landscape.
'And in holding those memories, she holds the experience.'
Owning land is a bridge to self-destiny.
Sounds like Brownian motion to me.
Worth his weight in gold.
Try as you might, Events are hard to come by.
The attainment of the community's grander hopes for itself.
Shout encouragement between sets.
'There's blacks in Waterloo! And they're Republicans!'
Convention jockeys.
Others wonder how meaningful the increase really is.
A turning point in the often-painful history of black Republican politics.
Become a viable alternative as the black middle class grows and becomes more affluent.
Utahns want your undivided attention.
You can only call them as you see them.
'Why are there so many Black people in this country who think like J.C. Watts, but they dont vote like me?'
Broaden the borders of their party tent to include newcomers.
'It was the number one requirement for me, wanting to dance with brown girls. I hadn't. Not enough.'
Good, if at times halting, talks about politics and economics.
'Sports have historically been a way for ethnic groups to move up in society.'
'Don't look at the elephant or the donkey. I let them make up their own minds.'
See, reading is fundamental.
If 'Metros' don't start having more children, America's future is 'Retro.'
Revealed another "two Americas" -- the division by race.
'I'm not interested in the Anna Kournikovas and Paris Hiltons of the world.'
Yet, his disappointment is evident.
'You have diversity when it comes to race, but you don't have the diversity of policies.'
'I am an American.'
Check the GOP on the wheels of Steele.
Optimistic that it will grow.
OK. But what about today?
'It's bad enough he's a gaijin. Do you have to marry one that's black?'
But she'll also be helping pump up the black vote.
'What we do when we are in a position of strength can come back to haunt us.'
The question is where black wealth will end up.
'But my career hasn't followed a traditional route, especially for an African-American woman.'
Not gray in the least.
This is truly the pitting of two different American Dreams.
'These guys were afraid they were going to die without telling their stories.'
'We cast our net a little wider this time.'
Shifting demographics have made the term's meaning more ambiguous.
Has allowed the clubs to become mildly more visible.
'Need to be educated about the party and not just focus on the stereotypes.'
'I can't shelter him from that, I can only give him the tools needed to deal with it.'
'The whole depth and breadth of the way people conducted their lives.'
But at this point, say, my own preference is as I've stated.
'Your ability is what makes you, not what race, ethnicity, gender, whatever. It's your ability and how you use it.'
Other cities have their own version. But none can come close to us in style points.
One can savor the intricate details, but the seams should never show.
'I don't need to be a convention speaker to be effective.'
'We've learned to say Condoleezza. And you just can't get more ghetto than Condoleezza.'
What Mr. Obama meant when he spoke of 'the audacity of hope.'
Not feel like they came out here and now they can't get their hair done.
Uplift and soften the party's image to people of color.
Identity erotica.
'Knowing where you are from is a very central component to knowing who you are.'
A near-universal sign of respect.
'I don't give a damn about society. I am. I exist.'
'I was elected in a city where its actually 50-50 at best.'
'Everything on this menu every black person's grandmother has made.'
Words that seem to quiver and shake in the reciter's vocal chords.
Knoxvillians largely keep to themselves, with their own kind.
'It's so deeply a part of the American ethos and the American economy.'
A trial balloon, a potential small difference maker.
Though they were up-to-date on their disses and their Missy.
Also diverse in terms of both race and ethnicity and geographic location.
Children's books as mirrors and windows.
Here, negro negro negro negro negro!
Honoring the black pioneers rock rolled over.
Cosby's a hell of a comedian.
Talks about Obama's 'post-racial' identity.
'After all,' one can hear them thinking, 'he is ghetto fabulous.'
Candidates, candidates' wives, roses, sweet smells.
Could just as easily mean 'dumb lie' or 'devoid of love.'
'I would still want my kids to be exposed to that sensational landscape.'
'When you lose your history, you lose a sense of yourself.'
Made his first trip Saturday into the heart of Chicago's black community.
Because there are so many different types of stories to tell.
'The message has moved from community empowerment to individual prosperity.'
No stranger to uphill political runs.
Characters making a play for their heritage.
A dismissed distinction.
'I have always loved to sing. But the bass has always been my livelihood.'
Had a serious soft spot for librarians ever since.
Reason to kick up her feet and chuckle a little.
A reminder they have yet to compete for votes.
Hasn't been conceded, not by a long shot.
Must you be what you teach? The answer I always arrive at is, No.
'A self-fulfilling prophecy, something straight out of central casting.'
Africa and America, good and evil, fantasy and reality join forces here, as do past and future.
Wait for that laugh and handle those silences, handle the fear -- ride out that silence and don't panic.
Ensuring the Senate its fifth black senator in history.
Meet to pose an uncomfortable question.
Misconception No. 6: African-American audiences flock to Spike Lee's films.
Brother? Check. Another planet? Check.
They believe that the doors are still open when the timing is right.
Be the black parent that you want to see in the black world.
'We planned to cater to an African-American community.'
Dr. Grace Jordan McFadden.
Uniformly enjoyable looks into unfinished lives' trajectories.
An unusually long and controversial judicial career.
'I'm going to make sure they know this is a black beach.'
Handy tips to keep from getting lost in Appellatia.
The answer is that we no longer own our country.
Noticed a gap in information about black fathers.
The name is Bond, Julian Bond. Doppel o'ganger?
'It's not yesteryear, but in Mississippi it still is.'
Allowing your opponent to define you is a cardinal sin in politics.
'Black music is a dominant form of American music, and it taps mainstream cultural themes.'
Surprise of surprise, we finally realized that 'leadership matters.'
Realizing, on their own, that style equals identity.
A taste of power, so to speak.
Your cash ain't nothin' but access.
Full-color papers aren't just about newsprint.
To get to know the students and where they come from, and to care.
'Showed the New York City that we know, the world that we move in.'
At this moment, the brightest rising star in the Democratic party.
'They don't ask us to stop being Hispanics because we belong to a black church.'
'We live here, we eat here, we shop here.'
I don't know where else a visitor can apprehend Africa in so many contexts.
Merely appearing and spouting boilerplate procivil rights rhetoric.
The progress that blacks have made in Dallas and the challenges that remain.
A suitcase full of historical implications and outsized expectations.
I will provide my answers.
Improve employability and earnings among black men.
'Because we can all be trained. We can all be educated.'
Be trusted to treat minority farmers like everyone else.
Simple things can make just about anyone richer.
See what happens on Monday when I enter Jackass Central!
Neither can fairly claim to be "the" civil-rights candidate.
'It's not a beautiful hill, but it is a beautiful hill when you look at it again.'
Carol's Books is back.
'The guy doesn't live anywhere near the interests of black Americans.'
A chance to both interpret and profile (as well as profit).
African American women are the least likely to break the silence.
'I foresee a time when many white actors will not really be white.'
In the popular phrase, they just 'don't want to know.'
Spent more time shoring up their base constituencies.
Worry about the changing nature of the media.
'People say I'm Reaganesque.'
Served not just as slaves but also as owners.
'Rrecklessly trying to lure them into political activities.'
As if they possessed all the black knowledge there was.
'When they put them on, you can't tell rich from poor.'
Carry enormous significance beyond the pool.
Born on the fourteenth of July, actually.
Of course, no one in his or her right mind would hand your uncle a bullhorn.
Serve to camouflage their policy differences and push race to the margins of the campaign.
And never, ever test the Wrath of Lashunda.
Outspoken, articulate, intelligent, powerful, wealthy, good-looking and charming.
Refuses an offer to speak.
When a brother no longer feels like business casual.
History unearthed.
'Nobody is going to take my vote for granted.'
Get all up in my business.
'He just becomes a black man, and it's good, clean, rural, Southern humor.'
Race integration in the web design and development field.
A man of great dignity and quiet desperation.
It's not necessary to not-know that I'm Black.
'Perceive that dance was a critical part of religious expression for African-Americans.'
Deal with their economic interests, not their racial ones.
Welcome Cosby contrarianism from the Census Bureau.
17 percent's better than 12 percent, too.
Dear reader: Turn off your computer and pick up a book this instant.
'I just wish for all kids that they would have a home.'
'Try to deal with them all at the end of the day in a way that allows me to keep my joy.'
For them, independence is not a holiday but a daily engagement.
Create apolitical portraits of African-Americans.
What am I bid?
'Silence can be a pretty frightful thing.'
Squandering their lives when they could be getting educated.
The propensity of strangers to comment on adoption, child raising and global politics.
'But all Americans are mutts.'
We began to see this broad range of black images and positive messages.
'I hadnt won the tournament in Greensboro, but I felt a larger victory.'
Debunk the myth that AIDS is a white gay male problem because people see otherwise.
'Black pastors are not cheap. You cannot buy us with a gold watch.'
Gives us a more accurate and complete picture of the struggle for dignity.
'But it is no longer about integrating the lunch counter.'
Reduce a political phenomenon like terrorism or democracy to sex.
Top Bill-in'.
Gets under your skin, but leaves the scratching up to you.
Claims an honor that can be bestowed only on someone of her lineage.
Press conference and anniversary commemoration.
'I always felt I was fortunate to be black.'
Until he sees a strategy that will energize black voters.
A history of the African American tank battalion.