Negrophile
'It don't matter what color you are. I hope I'm not being naive. I truly don't think I am.'

  • Binyamin Appelbaum is at it again with "He helps blacks get loans, even if at higher rates: Charlotte broker proud of his service, says families shouldn't be shut out," his latest Charlotte Observer (via Miami Herald) article
  • Tamara E. Holmes' Black Enterprise article "Increasing Black Male Graduation Rates: University of West Georgia's learning community for African American men draws praise, criticism"
  • San Diego Union-Tribune theater critic Anne Marie Welsh's "Playwright August Wilson's century-spanning series strikes a chord for the black American experience" and "From black women, alternative visions"
  • Howard Axelrod's New York Times article "A Baseline Recovery" and Amalie Benjamin's Boston Globe article "The US's great Young hopeful: Prospect's potential abounds"
  • Marc Weingarten's New York Times article "Book Says Alan Lomax Neglected Black Scholars"
  • Kerry Lengel's Arizona Republic article "ASU prof's voodoo novel centers on self-discovery"
  • Lloyd Vance's Black Athlete article "The Complete History of African American Quarterbacks In The NFL"
  • Philadelphia Tribune columnist Rotan E. Lee's Philadelphia Daily News essay "Wanted: black intellectuals" and a responding letter
  • (and for fun, if you missed it as I did, Athena D. Merritt's Philadelphia Business Journal article "Intellectually rich childhood shaped Lee's diverse career")


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