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Fighting For Your Health
Ladies and gentlemen I want a clean fight with nothing below the belt. Maybe boxers heed this message but in the world of politics there is no such thing as a clean fight. With the passage of Senator Max Baucus’ health care reform bill in the Senate Finance committee, Democrats are gearing up for a […]
District 9 (SPOILER ALERT)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHihFA8q8xI&feature=player_embedded In August of this year the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller District 9 debuted, boasting an exotic location, foreign languages, and blacks and whites united against a common threat—Prawns. The Prawns are aliens whose intergalactic automobile (most likely a Ford) has broken down on the wrong side of town—just above Johannesburg. Depicted as scary and […]
Week of August 17, 2009 to August 23, 2009
Long-Term Exercise, Healthy Eating Habits in Young Adults: U-M Study States News Service, August 21, 2009 Achievement Gap Casts a Shadow on Test Scores Bruce Lieberman and Maureen Magee, San Diego Union-Tribune, August 19, 2009 Immigrant Blacks More Likely to Attend Elite Colleges Amy Lunday, The John Hopkins University Gazette, August 17, 2009
Week of August 3, 2009 to August 9, 2009
Democracy Behind Bars Anthony Thompson, The New York Times, August 6, 2009 Gains on Tests Don’t Silence School Critics Elissa Gootman and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, August 4, 2009 Most Black Youths are Sitting out Baseball Gregory Lewis, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, August 4, 2009
Fundamentally Flawed: Capital Punishment Follow Up
There are two sides to every story. On one side you have a 14 year old girl, Tryna Middleton. An innocent girl who grew up a couple blocks from where my house is in East Cleveland, Ohio. Tryna Middleton attended Shaw High School, the same high school that I graduated from. A girl who literally […]
Interracial vs Intraracial dating, loving and fucking: Part 1
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ8RyR6_cJQ&feature=related Let’s begin the conversation with the clip by the chocolate enthusiast herself, Kyla. She starts this clip with an ode to chocolaty goodness. She says, “Hi, I like chocolate, and I am not talking about the candy, ok.” Kyla, goes on to say, “I love chocolate; I love chocolate men; I […]
Summer Explains it All: Jail Time for Dummies
Any of you following the NFL might have been slightly shocked when the details of Plaxico Burress’ sentence became public. Even I was surprised by the severity of his sentence, and I’ve been watching NFL players tango with the (in)justice system since well before, um, Ray Lewis? For those of you who have not diligently […]
Sick and Tired: Being Black, Woman, Poor, Sick, and (Uninsured)
In 1964 at the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Convention, Fannie Lou Hamer said, “All my life I’ve been sick and tired . . . Now, I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Even though these words were distinctively about Southern racism, I find myself unconsciously gravitating to these words to talk about the […]
The Push for "Precious"
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca_vv6urOCY Just last week, I stumbled upon a movie trailer on YouTube that really caught my attention. The independent film, Precious, tells the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a Harlem-bred, morbidly obese, pregnant, HIV-positive, illiterate, junior high school student who struggles with low self-esteem. If that isn’t already an earful, Precious’ story is further complicated […]
Where's Aniysah? A Campaign to End Violence Against Women of Color
This week, I am going to feature a blog I wrote for Document the Silence which is a website I co-founded dedicated to ending violence against women of color. Right now, we are in the midst of mounting a national online media campaign to document how domestic violence and the family court system work in […]