If you’re following me on Twitter or Tumblr, you know that I’ve been heavily preoccupied with the situation in Wisconsin. So much is at stake for Wisconsin and the country, and the labor movement legacy runs deep in my veins. But I’d like everyone to take their eyes off Wisconsin for long enough to take [...]
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Still Outraged over the Valley Swim Club Segregationists? Ask AG Holder to Investigate
Glad I checked my RSS feeds tonight and tuned into the Jack & Jill Politics coverage of the Valley Swim Club incident. I found Cheryl Contee’s post with the video above (“Hi, my name is Elon James White and I’m broadcasting from 1952…”), and I found the ColorOfChange.org call for letters asking Attorney General Eric [...]
It’s a Good Week for Old School Racism
Pool Boots Kids Who Might “Change the Complexion” | NBC Philadelphia. I had a knot in my stomach and could not sleep last night after watching those three white punks go after Jay Phillips. But telling over 60 kids that they are not welcome at a swimming pool that they have paid to use is [...]
Mother Sues Florida School Board over Police Handcuffing of Her Kindergartner
You may remember the story of Ja’eisha Scott. It broke almost exactly four years ago. A Black kindergarten girl in Pinellas County, Florida had a tantrum in school. The school decided the best way to handle it was to call the police and request that the girl be charged and arrested. St. Petersburg Police officers [...]
The Greatest Social Experiment in America
The week before I was going to head to New Orleans for this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference one of my twitter friends who was also going to NTC pointed to Eboo Patel’s Washington Post blog post about post-Katrina recovery in New Orleans. Patel catalogs the devastation pretty well: My friend Alycia drove me through the [...]
Donate $10 by 3:30 PM to Earn $50k for Kids in Cambodia
This is from Beth Kanter: Here’s the deal. We need to be in the top four charities that get the most unique donors in order to win the $50,000 for the Sharing Foundation. Right now we’re number 5, only trailing by 28 donors. Essentially, I am asking YOU for $10 (USD) to help children in [...]
Terrence Has Two Fathers
While we’re on the subject of civil rights and Dr. King’s vision of an inclusive society, I thought I’d share this sweet video (via The Bilerico Project)
No Money for the FEMA Trailer Park Children
By Briley Richmond Ocean Springs, MS Sunday, October 21, 2007 The Mississippi Press A 6-year-old child, Blake Pendergrass, was struck and killed by an automobile in Escatawpa the other day. Escatawpa is about 20 miles from my home in Ocean Springs. I didn’t know him. I would imagine something like that happens somewhere in America [...]
This Was a Revelation
The Beatles were my first musical obsession. When I became a fan of the Beatles in middle school, I collected every recording, poured over every liner note, read biographies, studied the lyrics, listened to the solo projects . . . It was the first time I’d gotten into music like this. I think it was [...]
American Woman
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites August 24, 2006 COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children. . . . [Superintendent Kay] Easley would not comment much [...]
The New World
By Erica Chappuis UPDATE: Visit Erica Chappuis’ website here (warning: contains sexually explicit content).
Professor Kim Live Blogging From Buffalo
This year’s annual convention for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is being held in Buffalo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Niagara Movement. Professor Kim is there and she is live blogging with audio posts. Particularly interesting was the interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson concerning her work on [...]
Oh What A Beautiful City
Pete Seeger continues to be a big favorite for my toddler. Standing in the chair in front of our stereo, he pulls the Pete Seeger CD of choice out of the stack, gets the disc out of the case, opens the CD player drawer, places the disc in, closes the drawer—and finds his favorite songs [...]
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