This article spoke to me in all types of ways. This is true gospel and how women of color have been framed and feeling for years. This is a must read!!! Rethinking Work-Life Balance for Women of Color And how white women got it in the first place by Kimberly Seal Allers “White…
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Audre Lorde: Revolution is not a One Time Event
My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity. – Audre Lorde Audre Geraldine Lorde 1934 – 1992 Audre Lorde was born in New…
LEADers on Inequality, Race, Ethnic Politics, and African American History
Special treat for African American History Month Netflix will stream 22 hard to find films from Black Cinema’s Earliest Pioneers. In 2015, Kino Lorber released a treasure trove from American history in a DVD box set, Pioneers of African-American Cinema. Hours upon hours of feature-length and short films spanning the 1910s to the 1940s were…
September/October 2016: African American Mentions, News, and Articles of Interest
Jean Genet knew how to speak his heart without pity or condescension. Now, we have learned how not to mistake solidarity feelings for feelings of pity among the representatives of the ruling culture. Genet, he already knew how to distinguish them. In his Yale speech, on the Mayday Speech day, he even goes so far as to advocate the…
National Read A Book Day on September 6, 2016
September 6, 2016: National Read a Book Day Highlighted Book of the Month The Adventures of Tume The Tug Boat: Tume Visits New York City with his new friend Speed by Monique Brown, ISBN: 978-1534980655: Tume’s Tug Boat Adventures series was created for children of all ages and will help readers understand other cultures, develop an…
July/August 2016: African American Mentions, News, and Articles of Interest
Malcolm X was invited back to London by the African Society to address a large audience in the Old Theatre at the London School of Economics. In both addresses, Malcolm X moved the political discourse from civil rights to human rights and stated clearly and unequivocally that the Black liberation struggle had to be internationalized rather than ghettoized….
June 2016: African American Mentions, News, and Highlights
In Native Son, Wright writes: “Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain’t. They do things and we can’t. It’s just like living in jail.” Vince Staples reminds us that the inner city still imprisons many. We should never forget that for some…
May 2016: African American News, Highlights, and Mentions
Chesler found that 70 percent of fathers who fight for custody win, regardless of the father’s character or even if he’s an active part of the child’s life. The perception of mothers who retain custody of their children is flawed. They don’t all have their children because the courts decided that they were the better…
No Longer 3/5ths of a Person: a’n’t I a woman?
Harriet Tubman was a great woman and she deserves every honor we can get for her accomplishments, trials, tribulations, and love for her people. She was born a slave in America and decided to free slaves during a time when she would have been hung, raped, and murdered just like Mary Turner. Sojourner Truth said,…
Become Political “Gladflys”: African American Votes are Political Currency
#NOAMCHOMSKY: Well, before answering that, let me just make one comment on elections: They’re important. It does matter who sits in the White House, who’s—who appoints Supreme Court justices, who makes decisions about war and peace, about environment and so on. Matters who’s in Congress, matters who’s in the state legislatures and so on. It…
Book Recommendation: The Sisters Are Alright by Tamara Winfrey Harris
The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris A few excerpts from the books that were enlightening to me. Enjoy and purchase the book!!!!! – AcademicHustler1975 “If the male isn’t the primary breadwinner of the family, then the children of that family are forever deviant. It’s right…
April 2016: African American News, Highlights, and Mentions
“The book itself is a landmark of political protest and eloquent articulation of the demand for freedom for people of African descent in the United States,” says Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American Collections in the Rose Library. “It is as important for African American political and social history as Thomas Paine’s ‘Rights of…
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