- “Niomi Daley, the British hip-hop star better known as Ms Dynamite, travelled to her ancestral land Jamaica to make a documentary about slaves who fought back, as part of the BBC’s season marking Britain’s abolition of the slave trade.”
- Thx aaronkorea! “A generation into blind auditions, African-American and Latino classical musicians remain few and lonely. The New York Philharmonic has exactly one black member: horn player Jerome Ashby…”
- Thx Umm Ali! “In Texas, a white teenager burns down her family’s home and receives probation. A black one shoves a hall monitor and gets 7 years in prison. The state NAACP calls it `a signal to black folks.’ “
- Thx Jason! “I will say publicly what many people are whispering privately in barbershops, soul food restaurants… If relations don’t improve between African Americans and Latinos in Southern California, we are headed for a major racial conflict.”
- “The fact that this playful dig at her second hometown was written in English and Spanish certainly adds to its effect. But Los Abandoned don’t limit their bilingual lyrics to any subject matter; like many bands, they also sing about relationships, curren
- Thx Kimberly! “A judge gave a 240-year prison sentence Wednesday to a black man who took hostages in an East Village bar, injuring several with bullets and kerosene, while telling the patrons that “white people are going to burn tonight.”
- Thx Myra! “A controversy involving offensive Asian stereotypes is simmering in Christian publishing…In some of the dialogue, a Chinese restaurant deliveryman uses language that portrays Asian people in exaggeratingly stereotypical ways.”
- Thx Wendi! “The way history has long been taught here, Britain’s abolition of the slave trade on March 25, 1807, allowed it to claim the moral high ground in the struggle to end slavery in the New World…perceptions may be about to change.”
- Thx Wendi! “Like a comic-book superhero, Obama is there to help, out of the sheer goodness of a heart we need not know or understand. For as with all Magic Negroes, the less real he seems, the more desirable he becomes.”
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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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