……this author and the subject of her masterwork, one Ida Bell Wells-Barnett.
Category Archives: world history
Listening, NFL? “But There’s One Thing We Would Never Call Ourselves….”
Reading Around The World, Part II
Encouraged by this!
Move Over, “Doctor Who!” My New British TV Obsession is PBS’ “Masterpiece Mystery: Sherlock!”
Where has this show been all my life?!? 🙂 I finally gave it a try a couple of weeks ago, and now I’m hooked FOR GOOD!
The Season 3 finale airs tomorrow night! I’ll probably only see part of it then, but will find the repeats during the week before finding all the back episodes online.
Happy Birthday, Langston Hughes!
Word! :)
Today’s WORD on Journalism Afflicting the comfortable since 1995” Friday, Jan. 31, 2013 • See TedsWORD: http://tedsword.blogspot.com/Advice for Writers
“I tell my students that the odds of their getting published and of it bringing them financial security, peace of mind, and even joy are probably not that great. Ruin, hysteria, bad skin, unsightly tics, ugly financial problems, maybe; but probably not peace of mind. I tell them that I think they ought to write anyway.”Â
 —Anne Lamott, writer, from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, 1994.
• Editorial Comment: Well, who needs peace of mind when you have hysteria?
re: Mumia Abu-Jamal: “Sesame Street Is Brought To You By…..” (via The Washington Times)
The Whirlwinds Of The Amiri Baraka Funeral
Lupita Nyong’o Wins Critics’ Choice Film Award For “Best Supporting Actress” Last Night
I’m glad she won this award, especially after what she had to do for it (think: the worst of “Glory” merged with the famous scene from “Monster’s Ball” that all Black people know). While watching “12 Years a Slave,” all I thought of when I saw her was this moment. 🙂 It was a very sincere and heartwarming speech.
Amiri Baraka, Cont’d (From The Village Voice Archives: Baraka vs. Stanley Crouch)
