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August 9, 2007
Everything's wittier when posted in Twitter
August 1, 2007
August's austere and lonely offices
July 11, 2007
Multi-tab pileup incapacitates browsers, takes days to untangle
June 10, 2007
A ghetto-fabulous conceptualism — based on reality and the intricacies of daily life.
June 8, 2007
Inside the country club and outside the baseline
June 5, 2007
I feel victorious that what I sacrificed myself for is now right in name.
June 4, 2007
Mes cousins jamais nés hantent les nuits des Duvalier
May 28, 2007
'If you look at the African-American audience, there is room for several networks'
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout: square biz
May 21, 2007
So many causes lie in how we treat one another
May 14, 2007
'The symphony is like a big ship, and it takes a while to turn it around.'
April 9, 2007
They know that a Republican appointed me, but they still don’t know what I am.
April 2, 2007
Rounding the bases on a thoroughbred bay
March 8, 2007
In preservation, you don't have the luxury of time.
March 5, 2007
Tells us a great deal, but not everything that we would like to know.
February 27, 2007
We come in many different shades. But then again, how many white people are really white.
Either wish me well, go to hell or ...
February 26, 2007
Measuring Mahoning County
February 25, 2007
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.
February 2, 2007
Surveyed 1,590 black, white and Hispanic youth nationwide between the ages of 15 and 25
January 9, 2007
A moral compass for America, always pointing us in the direction of truth
January 8, 2007
There was a time
January 7, 2007
That's the other side of being in the driver's seat.
Saddened but hopeful at the same time, just like we are.
December 31, 2006
There's no mourning, no lament. It's all about thanksgiving, joy, anticipation.
December 6, 2006
Has handled hundreds of services, mainly for African Americans in Oakland, Berkeley and Richmond.
November 26, 2006
There was certainly some short-term political calculation in being photographed among smiling black faces.
November 16, 2006
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.
November 14, 2006
Just look at the black people if you're unsure whether to laugh.
November 13, 2006
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
November 8, 2006
'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.'
October 24, 2006
Dialing "M" for miscegenation
October 23, 2006
One of those things one learns over time, I guess
October 15, 2006
As long as there are people in grass skirts beating drums, the audience is supposed to understand that it's Africa.
October 12, 2006
Someone who might not be 'black' in the sense of an African or African American, but who certainly was not white.
October 6, 2006
Comfort ourselves, look back with a less impassioned eye and exalt our commonality.
October 5, 2006
Celebrated in the same ’hood for her ambition and love of luxury.
October 3, 2006
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.
October 1, 2006
"Plus, we tend to just accept life and live with whatever we might be going through."
September 28, 2006
Scholars don't embrace the concept that the equipment that a DJ uses is a musical instrument.
September 19, 2006
Too often choose to go it alone because they're shut out of other routes to the top.
September 17, 2006
Africa: our genocides tend to happen away from television cameras
September 12, 2006
I'm going to end up going out of state. And once that happens I'm going to just change my identity.
September 11, 2006
It's not terrorism that is holding people hostage -- it's fear.
August 31, 2006
The 2006 Black Weblog Awards
August 13, 2006
How these new Latino immigrants situate themselves vis-à-vis black Americans.
August 2, 2006
We said, ‘Wow, she’s really funny.’ And she happened to be black.
July 11, 2006
They didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on them.
July 10, 2006
A full-service delivery system to identify, prepare, and carry black muscle to 'market.'
July 9, 2006
Offended by someone who appears to be a contradiction.
May 21, 2006
'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.
May 16, 2006
The connection between black viewers and black contestants was particularly strong.
May 15, 2006
People are egocentric. They assume others experience stimuli the same way they do.
May 8, 2006
"So many of us are struggling to make it day by day."
May 3, 2006
Sexualizing a larger black body signalled the end of her Idol fantasy.
April 23, 2006
'Ladies, when you wear this silver fox-trimmed silver brocade jacket, you will never be mistaken for the maid.'
April 18, 2006
'Lorna is not simply giving you this easy image of the body.'
April 14, 2006
Always end your book with Nelson Mandela saying something about rainbows or renaissances. Because you care.
April 2, 2006
Either we'll all become "Americans," or you and I will be searching for a terminology that suits us.
March 31, 2006
"In America, which I love from the depths of my heart and soul, when you look like me, you're black."
March 29, 2006
43.3 percent of black men and 41.9 percent of black women have never been married.
March 11, 2006
Who reads this site?
February 13, 2006
92 black men for every 100 single women in their 20's of the same race or ethnicity.
December 1, 2005
"They told me, 'This can't be your passport. There are no blacks in Argentina.'"
November 5, 2005
Remains the foundation stone on which we must build the future.
October 15, 2005
Each and every one of them must become the intellectual and spiritual leader they have been looking for.
October 5, 2005
'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.
October 4, 2005
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?"
October 3, 2005
A workable Wilsonian democracy, pt. 3.
October 2, 2005
Not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.
September 28, 2005
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.
September 26, 2005
Find the individual bloggers and activists who are concerned.
The link between conspiracy theories and oppression is as old as racial conflict.
September 25, 2005
'You can think of it as the birthplace of African-American librarianship'
September 23, 2005
Pushing the discussion down to the personal, to the visceral.
For all too many Americans they are the "Other," unlike us.
September 22, 2005
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.'
September 20, 2005
Tell them that getting New Orleans' people back is just as important as getting its buildings rebuilt.
September 19, 2005
'When I see these displaced people, wandering in a daze, I do go back to our roots, to the auction block.'
September 16, 2005
To pay your way and your homeboy's way and sometimes your cousin's way.
September 12, 2005
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.
September 11, 2005
'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.
September 9, 2005
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.
September 8, 2005
'We are a population in this country of black people, but do we feel like a community?'
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