This brings together a lot of the issues of race, class, and sex in one place. Also, mockery of bad spelling. (Warning, the deets in the various articles on the material evidence gathering could be triggering.)

Turbulent times for Duke and Durham
By Greg Garber
ESPN.comDURHAM, N.C. -- Robins are singing in the nearby bushes and early morning sun ( Read more... )

Irma Thomas is alive and well and in Baton Rouge at last report.

Perhaps you'd like to celebrate by listening to a short clip of her 'Time Is On My Side' and contemplating how much she KICKS MICK JAGGER'S ASS ( Read more... )

"...than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven." (Matthew 19: 23-26)

Stolen from penpusher who got it from onceupon: ebonypearl on the ground in the hurricane region, asking the media to stop criminalizing, stop blaming those left in NOLA for their poverty and try documenting the many acts of altruism going on there.

Stolen from ladyjax and ayodele, African American and religious ( Read more... )

I have nothing really of value to say but in case you have missed any of this.

via arisbe, Yahoo's pickup of Editor & Publisher's roundup of investigative journalism on the foreseeability of the hurricane catastrophe in New Orleans.

via arisbe again, former Clinton advisor Sidney Blumenthal says NO ONE CAN SAY THEY DIDN'T SEE IT COMING.

via a debunkingwhite member, ( Read more... )

Cops in Carroll Gardens are hustling schoolkids onto trains. Police call it protection. Parents call it harassment.
by Aina Hunter
August 2nd, 2005 11:02 AM from The Village Voice


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Currently, Wrestlemania is (performing?) occurring in the town in which my brother teaches. A man named Hassan was just stepping on the head of a French-Canadian named Benoit, after delivering an impassioned speech about anti-Arab prejudice. Is it just me, or is Wrestlemania an unlikely forum for healing and understanding? Maybe it's the placards ( Read more... )

As I mentioned I was going to, last weekend, I attended a panel on the exhibit at the Brooklyn Musem of paintings by Kehinde WileyThe exhibit is exciting. It is based on Old Masters paintings in terms of the stances adopted by the models, but all are paintings of ( Read more... )

And the exhibit is called Ghetto Fab?

Well, hm. This graf-to-gallery idea is nothing new, it's a wheel that's been being reinvented more or less the entire lifespan of hip hop culture, and I'm suspicious of any attempt to gallerize graf that doesn't even allude to Henry Chalfant. But am I jumping the gun here? Anyone know anything about this ( Read more... )

I am not going to be posting one of those "United States of Jesusland" maps. Nor reposting the e-mail I just got advocating "American Coastopia" in which the east and west coasts band together and secede, annexing Illinois and Iowa for the museums and the produce. In order to have any kind of hope at all, I have to believe that it is ignorance ( ( Read more... )

The misspelled mosaic has pitted art advocates against language purists. Some argue that artistic expression allows the artist to spell "Gaugan" (the painter known to those who can spell as Gauguin) however she likes, and others say such mistakes do not belong anywhere near the city's home of knowledge and literacy.I find it odd that there is no ( Read more... )