This may not seem like much to some folks, but the ripples are wide-reaching.

Thanks from bispo for binging the link to attention.

Obama Brings Flush Times for Black Media

Essence, a magazine that is dedicated to black women, has hired its first Washington correspondent. Johnson Publishing Company, the media group based in Chicago that owns Ebony and ( Read more... )

Obama kills me.

Thanks to badgerbag, I have found the Pres' jaw-drop lines when reading from his book Dreams From My Father. Intensely cheering after a night filled with nightmares.

We must have icons and ringtones!

April Winchell

Reverend Lowry's benediction makes me cry every time I hear it. At first I had to strain a bit to make out his words, because after all, the man is 87. But he was patient, and he definitely knew what he was doing. He's been around the block. And around, and around, and around ( Read more... )

Took an early lunch to watch the inauguration with my folks and my ten year old. Wonderful.

"We will restore science to its rightful place...."

From bispo, who routinely finds the best stuff.

Obama's Interview on Faith with Christine Falsani.

This guy just bowls me over for so many reasons. He really knows how to walk some very fine lines.

A standard line in my stump speech during this campaign [this interview took place in 2004] is that my politics are informed by a belief that we're all ( Read more... )

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teflon_paladin and I cooked our asses off yesterday. Many thanks to him and his eternally patient wife. I have to start over the diet, though.

I now know about Bstilla.

In other news, check out Women's eNews. Interesting.

Articles such as Photos Probe Spectrum of Female Muslim Identity

and Wiccan War Widows Win Their Sacred Burial Markers

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From the Washington Post:

The new president is also expected to lift a so-called global gag rule barring international family planning groups that receive U.S. aid from counseling women about the availability of abortion, even in countries where the procedure is legal, said Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America ( Read more... )

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When I found I had crossed that line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything.
-- Harriet Tubman