The Los Angeles Times has Ellen Barry's registration-required article "Meeting of the Minds is of Two Minds" on the weekend's State of the Black Union summit (liveblogged over at Blackfeminism.org) and Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger's "Blacks Courted on Social Security" (with some particularly sobering demographic and polling data) to read.
Alternet has Ethan Vesely-Fled's Colorlines article "For the Soul of the Church" on Episcopalians' struggles in recent years.
"Learning about jazz, soul food -- animosity and bias," Erin Mallants Rodriguez's Miami Herald article, shares some immigrants' introduction to Black History Month via college campus lessons. Another teaching-moment perspective comes from Cindy Peng's "Berkeley High Program Connects Students to Past" for the Daily Cal.
I get my worthwhile post-Oscar perspectives from Caught in Between's "Academy Awards: Black History Month Edition" and Cobb's "Hollywood Shuffle"
Last but not least, the New York Times editorial "Thousands Died in Africa Today" notes that "more than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty."
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