- Hat tip to Jae Ran! “American football star Hines Ward has invited the star of a new TV drama for ABC primetime Moon Bloodgood to help…Both faced hard times as children, both triumphed over adversity to become celebrities. Now the two have come together
- Loooove this article! “Ever wondered what wine to serve with pho or tandoori chicken? Okay, how about kimchee? Drunken Monkey goes where other sommeliers fear to tread.”
- Thanks T! “Michigan voters will decide Nov. 7 whether to end affirmative action in their state’s renowned public colleges and its public schools and other state agencies, and Connerly is helping the campaign. Polls conducted earlier this month showed the
- “In the wake of the Source trial, hip-hop staffers ponder their contribution to the culture…hip-hop artists, journalists, filmmakers, and loyalists ready to defend the culture’s seedier aspects as an unfortunate but necessary reflection of reality…”
- Hat tip to Rob! “We can make jokes about people higher up on the ladder than we are, whereas people higher in the culture, white people, cannot. That’s racism. It gets less clear when you have two groups at the same level—say blacks and Indians…”
- “According to the Screen Actors Guild this year 2006. Natives represented on TV and in FILMS was less than 1%…50 people! And most of that work was GUEST STARRING ROLES. I’ve counted only 9 on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and the CW…”
- “many…colleges and universities instituted diversity requirements for undergrad students that required them to take at least one course about racial/ethnic minorities….the question some are asking is, have these courses served their purpose and are th
- “By providing the name and location of the trailer park and the full identity of these people, the reporter and his editors are, in addition to telling their stories (no matter how sympathetically), are acting as immigration agents themselves…”
- “This infamous hip-hop video that sings the praises of poultry preparation and consumption has been circulated around the web and back, creating an uproar along the way…”
- In ‘Catch a Fire,’ “the filmmakers tell a story based on the real life of Chamusso, who was transformed from an apolitical yes-man to a militant fighter for the liberation of South Africa’s 25 million Blacks from the genocidal system of apartheid…”
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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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