By Marsha Joyner
Did Martin die in vain on that fateful day of April 4, 1968? What has transpired in these 40 years with respect to King’s dream? There are several events in the Bible where the number 40 is of paramount importance—can any of them be related to our struggles these past 40 years? Rain […]
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson has approved MS Governor Haley Barbour’s plan to divert $600 of Federal Community Development Block Grant funds from low-income housing recovery to a Port Expansion Plan in Gulfport.
In his letter to Gov. Haley Barbour, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that although he’s concerned about using the housing money […]
Dollars & Sense co-editor Amy Gluckman appeared on Your Call, a show on radio station KALW. Appearing with Amy was Lawrence Pintak of Arab Media and Society and Glenn Ford from Black Agenda Report. Amy discussed what is being left out of economic news coverage and was great (as were Pintak, discussing the fall of […]
The Prison Policy Initiative and State Senator Eric Schneiderman have brought together an in impressive coalition of organizations and legislators to call on the US Census Bureau to change its policy on counting prisoners—and to kick off a national advocacy campaign on the issue.
“Counting prisoners as residents of the prison districts where they do […]
Ash-Lee sent me this update to her original post on Johnson City, TN Barnes & Noble and the exploitative books it is pushing as African American literature.
A friend of mine that is currently an employee at Barnes and Noble read this blog (specifically where I write about the store management being ok with taking the […]
You can help raise money for the Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership by sponsoring my good friend Jesse on his run in the Dublin Marathon.
Jesse Edsell-Vetter of Somerville will run the 26-mile Dublin Marathon Monday, Oct. 29, and has pledged to raise $4,000 to support Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership’s efforts to end homelessness.
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, […]
J was out biking in Jamaica Plain, MA (part of Boston) on September 11:
I joined The Club. I took a header on South Street, the tire of my bicycle caught in the groove of the unused trolley track.
I tried to keep control of the bike, and managed to hang on to the handlebars until I […]
By Ash-Lee W. Henderson
A little over two weeks ago, a fellow Barnes & Noble employee at our Johnson City, Tennessee store informed me that our store would soon display an “endcap” African American fiction promotion. An “endcap” is a set of small, plastic book holders layered on the end of one of our long […]
Maybe I’m being grumpy, but this Labor Day blog post by Seth Godin (via Matt) really rubbed me the wrong way.
Your great-grandfather knew what it meant to work hard. He hauled hay all day long, making sure that the cows got fed. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes about a worker who ruptured his […]
I’ve added 3 blogs to my blogroll, all friends and acquaintances:
Vivtown - Viv has literary chops and a real sense of style. Just wait; you’ll see.
Sendai77 - Musician and technologist.
Freedom Road - Patrick Jones is a professor of history and ethnic studies in Lincoln, Nebraska. An interesting intellect and a cool guy.
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In May 2006, my friend David got me to join him at the Regatta Bar in Harvard Square for an amazing show by Randy Weston and his African Rhythms Trio, with Weston on piano and Alex Blake on bass and Neil Clarke on percussion. Weston is one of the living masters of the Jazz piano […]
Thanks to Susan Klopfer, I found my way over to this video from the new, about to be released, record by Mavis Staples. I think I’ll be stopping in at Newbury Comics on my lunch hour tomorrow. Now if only there was a way for me to get to the Apollo Theater in May; damn […]
Last year, Marsha Joyner wrote a guest post on Watch Night Services in African American communities. For the last two weeks, in the approach to New Years, her post has been drawing search engine traffic every day. Here are the opening paragraphs.
Those of us who grew up in America’s traditional Black communities know […]
A couple of months ago I had my first exposure to Mark Mulcahy’s music. The venue was PA’s Lounge a little room that is adjunct to a little bar in Union Square in Somerville, MA.
Mulcahy is famous to some for his work in his old band Miracle Legion. I’d never heard any of his stuf […]
Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
2008 Benjamin T. Greenberg
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