Monthly Archives: February 2010

MYRA MCDANIEL, FIRST BLACK TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE ASSOCIATED PRESS Feb. 26, 2010, 4:05PM AUSTIN — Myra McDaniel, the first black to be appointed Texas secretary of state, has died at age 77. McDaniel’s husband, Reuben McDaniel Jr., says she … Continue reading →

(This is a repost from March, 2009 that discusses two topics on the after-effects of slavery on present-day rape and race of victims and how they fare in the courts. In the second half of my post, I include the discussion … Continue reading →

      February 25, 2010 ColorLines Direct. News and commentary from ColorLines magazine and RaceWire blog. How Do We Talk About Police Brutality When The Cops Aren’t White? Julianne Hing explains how, in an unjust system, cops of color … Continue reading →

Austin killer becoming a hero to radical right by Mark Potok on February 19, 2010    In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an Austin, Tex., IRS building, white supremacists and their … Continue reading →

The Other is one of those movies that is subtle in its jolts of terror, and it succeeds in being a very beautiful movie of the horrors of deteriorating psychological breakdown as seen in the film’s major character, Niles Perry, and … Continue reading →

Now, here is an airline that truly has its female passengers in mind, as the following article states. ************************************************************************************************ Women only: Airline to have female toilets Wed Feb 24, 1:26 pm ET TOKYO (Reuters) – Women flying Japan’s All Nippon Airways will have a … Continue reading →

LUCILLE CLIFTON, POET WHO EXPLORED BLACK LIVES By MARGALIT FOX Published: February 17, 2010 Lucille Clifton, a distinguished American poet whose work trained lenses wide and narrow on the experience of being black and female in the 20th century, exploring … Continue reading →

Here is a very eloquent and thought-provoking essay on light-skinned Blacks who passed for White as chronicled by well-known authors in literature. The author of this essay, Toure (himself an author) speaks to what Blacks of a paler persuasion must … Continue reading →

  Adam Block / NOAO / AURA / NSF Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community Spiral Galaxies Exist — But Why? February 16, 2010 | New observations of the early universe, combined with … Continue reading →

A teenager who posted white supremacist material on YouTube has become the first person in Britain to be prosecuted for stirring racial hatred on video sharing websites. By Tom Whitehead, Home Affairs Editor Published: 7:30AM GMT 18 Feb 2010 The … Continue reading →