- Ugh. Here we go again. “the photos — in which partygoers carried 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor and wore Afro wigs, necklaces with large medallions and name tags bearing traditionally black and Hispanic names — upset some black law students…”
- “biologist Bert Ely of the University of South Carolina and colleagues found that fewer than 10 percent of African-American mitochondrial DNA sequences that were analyzed can be matched to any single African ethnic group…”
- Thanks Jennifer! “Human rights groups in Malawi will seek a court injunction on Monday to stop pop star Madonna from proceeding with the adoption of a one-year-old boy in the impoverished African nation…”
- Thanks Luke! “Lyons said that Piniella was “hablaing Espanol” — butchering the conjugation for the word “to speak” — and added, “I still can’t find my wallet.”…Lyons claimed he was kidding…”my comment about Lou taking my wallet was a joke and in no
- Thanks Tariq! Part of The Washington Post’s continuing series on Being a Black Man. Black women speak about the importance of marriage, marrying a black man, interracial dating, and marriage expectations.
- Thanks Mark and Phil C! “The Nazis may have taken it to murderous extremes, but eugenics existed long before Hitler’s 1933 rise to power. A new exhibition in Dresden…looks at the pseudo-scientific foundations of racism.”
- Thanks Tariq! “there has been a remarkable convergence in television viewing habits…Now, there is almost a perfect match between what blacks and whites are watching and while many of these shows have black characters, none feature a predominately black
- “The WWE has…a new Asian wrestler character..he is wearing a confederate flag-emblazoned leather vest and is standing beside a pick up truck. “I’m a redneck,” Yun announces. “Ain’t no yeller about me.”
- “I was hoping to create a character who you really saw as three-dimensional. Usually, the fat kid is the sidekick, or the comic relief…I wanted shift the focus to him and say ‘this kid is a full person and he has the same kind of sexual desires that R
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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