Tag: history
member name: Nyota *Star*
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August 28, 2008 01:09 PM EDT --
Every now and then I write to the companies who use Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben as personifications touting their products. I ask things like: Why can't SHE be Ms. Jemima and HE be Mr . Ben? I have . . .
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June 02, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
I've been accepted for the POETRY workshop at the Hurston/Wright 3 Day Writers' Workshop beginning on Friday, July 24 – Sunday, July 26, 2009. at Howard University, Washington, DC! This is my . . .
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June 08, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
There's a lot of buzz going around about how Hillary Clinton has been treated so poorly by some simply because she is a woman.
I can't help but think of the speech Sojourner Truth (Isabella . . .
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October 12, 2009 11:02 AM EDT --
We now have new black "Barbies (have different names; Barbie must be white)". A small step in the right direction. Their skin colored in many shades just as real black people's. All have long hair and . . .
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August 18, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
A brief history of Black Face (Asians and Native Americans also included).
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1725315794
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December 11, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
Another milestone!
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_state_of_black_america_news/4286
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February 11, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
I like reading and writing what are termed colloquialisms from various sources. I enjoy knowing or figuring out what is the writer's/character's meaning by using such words (think Mark Twain). . . .
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October 30, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
(I wrote an article on this movie about a week ago but Gather's techno-bug wouldn't post it. This was before the tragedy actor/singer Jennifer Hudson is dealing with.).
Have you seen the movie . . .
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January 24, 2009 11:45 PM EST --
Now that Barack Obama is president, many folk are also espousing that there are no more "excuses" for black people who remain impoverished in hearts and minds.
I have to take issue with this . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:56 PM EST --
Copy and paste for some interesting facts!
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/3074.cfm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=peer360&utm_campaign=DI+Newsletter-020209&utm_content=DI+Newsletter-020209 . . .
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March 29, 2009 09:31 PM EDT --
This is a subject that is near and dear to me.
http://www.diversityinc.com/public/4731.cfm
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November 19, 2008 10:46 PM EST --
from my e-mail:
http://www.theroot.com/id/48726
Alice Walker on expectations, responsibilities and a new reality that is almost more than the heart can bear.
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March 06, 2009 06:14 PM EST --
A few folk have asked me how to get a copy of 44th, Barack H. Obama, The Commemorative Edition.
It contains reprinted information of full color front pages from leading African American newspapers reporting . . .
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September 08, 2009 09:53 PM EDT --
Subject: Protect the President from right-wing extremists
Dear Friend,
As racist attacks increase and protestors continue to bring guns to presidential events, it is strikingly clear that President . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:35 PM EDT --
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September . . .
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