- Thanks Tariq! “Authorities at Tarleton State University said they plan to investigate a Martin Luther King Jr. Day party that mocked black stereotypes by featuring fried chicken, malt liquor and faux gang apparel.”
- This is HILARIOUS! “During literally tens of thousands of media interviews over the years, I always have put these black heroes in the glowing light of adulation they so deserve, crediting the black man for the intense soul and spirit that has enriched ou
- Hat tip to TheThink. “Britain’s Channel 4 Television, already under fire for broadcasting alleged racism on its top-ranked show, faced further criticism on Tuesday after a contestant on another reality television program made remarks praising slavery and
- Hat tip to The Anti-Essentialist Conundrum. “Federal officials said Tuesday they arrested more than 750 illegal immigrants over the past week in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in what they described as one of the biggest such sweeps in U.S. history.”
- “The spokesperson for the gay-lesbian community in Matamoros, José Ernesto Leal Rodríguez, was found murdered, with 8 stab wounds, in his home, according to the state authorities.”
- “A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy has been charged in the 1964 kidnappings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been abducted and killed by the Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.”
- Hat tip to Harlow’s Monkey. “she says that critics of celebrity adoptions “get me all riled up … I think they can stick it — you can quote me on that,” she says.” Way to gloss over the complexities, Oprah.
- ““Dutchman,” the poet Amiri Baraka’s controversial 1964 race play…The white person who goes to see this is supposed to leave feeling like a viper sent off to repent…”
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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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