History of the Obvious
Final Call: There were some news reports that you had a relationship with one of the defendants, Bobby Brewster. Is this accurate? Megan Williams: We were just friends. It was nothing like that. FC: No dating relationship between you and defendant Bobby Brewster? MW: No. They kicked me in the head with steel toed boots, [...]
Updates: Megan Williams, Barnes & Noble
Megan Williams In the comments, Cherise asked “Does anyone know if there has been any funding put into place to help with her medical bills, or therapy needs she may have?” Universalwriter replied that Chase Bank has set up a trust fund for Megan Williams. Universalwriter has set up a website providing ongoing coverage of [...]
Megan Williams and Hate Crimes
There is a lot of understandable outrage over the decisions of the both the US Attorney and the state prosecutor to not bring hate crime charges against the 6 whites accused of kidnapping, torturing and raping Megan Williams in Logan County, West Virginia. There seems to be a prevailing assumption that if there is racial [...]
Shameless Lying Liars Ready to End Public Housing in NOLA
Selective involvement of federal government in local affairs at its finest. HUD’s Wrecking Ball Tightening the Noose Around New Orleans By BILL QUIGLEY Odessa Lewis is 62 years old. When I saw her last week, she was crying because she is being evicted. A long-time resident of the Lafitte public housing apartments, since Katrina she [...]
Barnes & Noble Blaxploitation Endcap Sightings
Following Ash-Lee’s post about Barnes & Noble, we’ve been curious just how widespread the exploitative endcaps are. A commenter on Ann’s Weekly Feminist Reader at feministing said they’ve got the same endcaps in Tallhassee, FL. If you’ve sighted a Barnes & Noble encap like the one Ash-Lee described in her post, leave a comment on [...]
This Gave Me Pause
When I was reading Daisy’s post about Pfc. LaVena Johnson, I got stuck on one of the details. The indications of possible rape and other physical violence and murder all were troubling enough. But then there was this one detail (originally posted by Anne): Indications that someone attempted to set LaVena’s body on fire I [...]
Guest Post: What really happened to Pfc. LaVena Johnson?
(This guest post is reprinted from Daisy’s Dead Air with Daisy’s kind permission. h/t to Ampersand) From the blog BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS comes a case that I have heard NOTHING about, which is pretty amazing, news-hound that I am. Thus, the fact that I didn’t know, makes me instantly [...]
Update from Ash-Lee on Barnes & Noble
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 [...]
Barnes & Noble Insists on Promoting Racist and Sexist Stereotypes
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 [...]
The Shock Doctrine
I became aware of Naomi Klein’s work in the first month after Hurricane Katrina, when she had made a remarkable discovery about New Orleans: in neighborhoods that had been declared habitable by Mayor Nagin there were 23, 267 uninhabited apartments that could be rented to evacuees. I said then: If each unit houses three people, [...]
“It’s like they want you to disappear”
The second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is tomorrow, and for many thousands, the situation is still dire, and things are not getting any better. One can of kidney beans per day and some rice does not a healthy 65-year-old woman make. BAY ST. LOUIS, MS – If she had known Aug. 28, 2005, what she [...]
Young Historians
Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer A documentary by Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen [youtube]xKXoXwYpzmU[/youtube] From Bakersfield.com: Fruitvale Jr. High seventh-graders Ali Castellanos and Allie Molen recently won first place for the state of California in the Free Expression in a Free [...]
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