- Obama 50th Birthday: We’re Integration Babies
- We fall between the cracks of the baby boom generation and Gen X. We missed the thick of the civil rights movement, black power, women’s liberation, Stonewall and Woodstock but are too old to be Gen Xers.
- …When the doors opened, we stepped into an integrated world.
- But not always comfortably.
- How Black Is Bliss Broyard? (African American Lives Video)
- …who spent her life thinking her father, New York Times critic Anatole Broyard, was white, finds out from The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. how much African ancestry she really has.
- Video: Tea Party Put Gun to Obama’s Head?
- The Rev. Al Sharpton, who’s still filling in on MSNBC, asked last night’s Ed Show guests whether all future votes on raising the debt ceiling would be held hostage by the political opposition. The unanimous response was that they would be, as long as there’s a Democrat in the White House.
- Michael Eric Dyson had the harshest assessment of the situation:…
- Celebrating Your Crown: 8 Songs That Make You Proud to be Natural | Madame Noire | Black Women’s Lifestyle Guide | Black Hair | Black Love
- Today I was on Wikipedia and I searched the word “Afro” (actually it gave me Afro textured hair) It was relatively lengthy based on Wiki standards and rightly so. There is a history behind our hair, a legacy even. …
- Electzu » Debt Deal Poll Results: House GOP And Tea Party Bigger Losers Than President Obama
- …72 percent of those polled used negative terms to describe the negotiations, while 11 percent used neutral terms and only 2 percent described them positively. And it would appear that these negative feelings aren’t bound by party lines. Of the 1,001 people polled, 75 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of independents didn’t have a lot of warm, fuzzy feelings about the talks. Oh, and in case you were wondering: Yes, Tea Party sympathizers are the least keen.
- Fanny Kemble: Black Don’t Crack – Ta-Nehisi Coates – Personal – The Atlantic
- Given that the West once believed most attributes were bone-deep–the nobility were damn near another species–I’m always amazed by how little actual anti-black racism you find in Europe, pre-trans-Atlantic slave trade. You certainly find disparaging thoughts and a vague proto-white supremacy. …But you don’t find the notion that black skin is somehow necessarily correlated with evil, deceit, cowardice or stupidity.
- …This thing was made. It can be unmade too.
- Roby to Release Latest Novel, Secret Obsessions
- New York Times best-selling author Kimberla Lawson Roby has a knack for writing suspenseful, page-turning stories, and her latest novel, Secret Obsession, is no different. …
- Stars Who Turn 50 in 2011
- Barack Obama is not the only bold name to hit the big 5-0 this year. Meet his fellow 1961 babies.
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