Monthly Archives: January 2010

Learning about ones past can be painful, as is so often evident in the history of African descent peoples in this hemisphere. The atrocities, the cruelties, the brutalities. But, one can also learn courage, fortitude, temperance, and pride, in realizing … Continue reading →

EUNICE JOHNSON, GAVE EBONY MAGAZINE ITS NAME By DENNIS HEVESI Published: January 9, 2010 Eunice W. Johnson, the creator of the Ebony Fashion Fair, a celebrated annual tour of nearly 200 cities that has showcased haute couture and ready-to-wear fashion … Continue reading →

Big News in Epsilon Aurigae Mystery January 5, 2010 | What’s really eclipsing this naked-eye star? Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope think they’ve finally solved a nearly two-century-old puzzle. > read more  Black-Hole Bonanza January 5, 2010 | Astronomers announce supermassive … Continue reading →

 Obama’s travel restrictions: throwback to post 9/11 paranoia Thursday, January 7, 2010    January 7, 2009 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blog.    Travel Restrictions Under Obama: One Step Forward, Two Steps BackAmerica’s borders tightened … Continue reading →

By George Bennett Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 10:11 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 Posted: 7:13 p.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 2010 The son of a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard is renewing his efforts to be seated on the Palm Beach County Republican Executive … Continue reading →

INTERNATIONAL DAY IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE HOLOCAUST 2010 عربي 中文 English Français Русский Español The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme Remembrance and Beyond   “Denying historical facts, especially on such an important subject as the Holocaust, is just … Continue reading →

Yes, it is nice that a street was named after Sean Bell. But, what would have been even more fair and just, was for his murderers to have received prison time for ending his young life. ************************************************************************************************ MAYOR BLOOMBERG RENAMES … Continue reading →

The racial population change of Harlem has been in the making for quite sometime. The following New York Times article addresses the transition that will make Harlem a different place than what it once was a century ago. ********************************************************************************************** NO … Continue reading →

The ties that bind: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. So ought men to love their wives as their … Continue reading →

CARLENE HATCHER POLITE, WHOSE WRITING EXPLORED RACISM AND SEXISM By MARGALIT FOX Published: December 31, 2009   Carlene Hatcher Polite, an experimental novelist of the 1960s and ’70s whose work focused on the uneasy confluence of racism and sexism in … Continue reading →