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 lower 9th […]
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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 […]
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)
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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 every day — at […]
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 around […]
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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] […]
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
By Erica Chappuis
UPDATE: Visit Erica Chappuis’ website here (warning: contains sexually explicit content).
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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 something she […]
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 […]
Yesterday, the St. Petersburg, FL Police Department issued a report concerning the allegations that Officers Mark Williams and Nicholas Lazzari were guilty of “Inefficiency / Conduct Unbecoming an Employee [CUBE]” when they handcuffed five-year-old Ja’eisha Scott at Fairmount Elementary School last March in St. Petersburg. While the resultant change in police and school policy concerning […]
This is a little dated, but it’s good and Technorati says hardly anyone blogged it. For all my fellow red diaper babies:
Pete Seeger Is 86
by STUDS TERKEL
It is hard to think of Pete Seeger as an elderly gaffer, because the boy in him, the light, remains undimmed. It was sixty-five years ago I first ran […]
• After I blogged my friend Dana’s memoir piece on her 1999 trip to Auchwitz, she commented to send me over to the website of Peter Cunningham, the photographer whose photo of Dana appears in her article.
Peter has spent years photographing musicians and there is a nice link on his site to those pictures. Open […]
Youngest Students Most Likely to Be Expelled
Preschoolers’ Self-Esteem at Risk, Study Says
By Michael Dobbs
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005; Page A02
Preschools are expelling youngsters at three times the rate of public schools, according to a nationwide study by Yale researchers, prompting concerns that children are being set up for educational […]
Speaking of children, my two year old has been doing wonderful things with blocks.
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