There’s something about black people that when there is one among us, or one who claims us as their own, has a variation in pedigree or even something as benign as speech, we are quick to highlight to them their separateness from other black people.
We don’t even know where to begin with this one. After thinking about it over the last couple of days we decided to just write a letter to Gayle King directly and sharing our feelings about Dan Savage’s appearance this past week on The Gayle King Show. Did any of you see it? We missed [...]
According to the Afro Drumming Web site the following YouTube vid’ is a rare and old footage of African drumming, dating back to 1930. The footage is taken from documentaries, cartoons, movies and amateur footage. But the site does clarify that the soundtrack you’ll hear when watching the video of it is not the original. [...]
By: Zerlina Maxwell | theLoop21 Last month, the Obama Administration announced that the Department of Justice would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court because it was unconstitutional. Progressives and gay activists rejoiced, of course. But not everyone in the Obama coalition was happy about the move. Church going African Americans, 68 percent [...]
From AP News: WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The NAACP’s newly revived Worcester chapter elected a 28-year-old openly gay black man as its president this month. In New Jersey, a branch of the organization outside Atlantic City chose a Honduran immigrant to lead it last year. And in Mississippi, the Jackson State University chapter recently turned [...]
Colored People Time: Do you often find yourself late to everything, even if you planned it out yourself? Do your friends tell to arrive 30 minutes early just so you might actually show up on time? Are you a minority? If you answered yes to these questions you suffer from CPT (colored people’s time).
From New Press: The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred by poll taxes and [...]
