I don't want to imply the media is biased or anything, but damn this is a mean looking pic:

( Serena reacts after a point at the Australian Open )

Another "last-minute" decision to do something yields another cool moment: a chance to meet and get a picture with Nikki Giovanni:

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My very, very, VERY late Black History Month post can be found here (if scrolling down doesn't work for ya, which it might not if you're reading this post off a friend's view).

Staying on-point, even if I'm damned late about it: African-American-themed books I recommend, off the top of my head...

• Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men ( Read more... )

This last year's achievements (if there were any -- nominations, please) in black history were spotty at best, but the number of significant African-Americans who passed on was a bit startling. And let's not even go into the massive celebrity funerals some of these legends had...

These are some of the incredible black people we lost in the odd 13 ( Read more... )