Monthly Archives: February 2011

As the following article attests, the hells that so many Black women suffered during the reign of Jane Crow segregation are swept under the rug, forgotten, as if Black American women had it so easy during the nadir of pigmentocracy. … Continue reading →

DWAYNE MCDUFFIE, COMIC-BOOK WRITER By MARGALIT FOX Published: February 23, 2011 Dwayne McDuffie, a comic-book writer known for diversifying the pantheon of superheroes, creating popular black characters in print and on television, died in Burbank, Calif., on Monday, the day … Continue reading →

  News Observing Photo Gallery Magazine Archive Shop at Sky NASA / GSFC / Arizona State Univ. Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon February 25, 2011 | … Continue reading →

    February 24, 2011 Colorlines.com Direct | Published by the Applied Research Center It’s 1968 All Over Again, and King’s Fight For Unions Is Still Essential MLK died fighting for the rights that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and a … Continue reading →

In addition to adding insult to the legacy of the Civil Rights marchers who participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march in 1965, the neo-confederates of the following SPLC article show their ludicrous and slavish worship of a flag that still … Continue reading →

All the Ladies Say, a film by Ana “Rocafella” Garcia celebrates the female b-girls: a female breakdancer, hip hopper who is involved in hip hop culture, while sporting Addidas or shelltoe sneakers. Ms. Garcia’s film, which premiered in June 2009, … Continue reading →

  Virginian Luxuries, unknown artist, circa 1810 – 1825. “As if to mimic the tendency of most Americans, including the Founding Fathers, to say as little as possible about slavery, and either to deny or avoid discussing its brutality, the … Continue reading →

CHARLES E. SILBERMAN, WHO WROTE ABOUT RACISM IN THE U.S. By MARGALIT FOX Published: February 13, 2011 Charles E. Silberman, a journalist whose books addressed vast, turbulent social subjects including race, education, crime and the state of American Jewry, died … Continue reading →

News Observing Photo Gallery Magazine Archive Shop at Sky NASA / JPL / Cornell Univ. Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community   Stardust’s Date With Comet Tempel 1 February 15, 2011 | Low … Continue reading →

    February 17, 2011 Colorlines.com Direct | Published by the Applied Research Center America’s Food Sweatshops and the Workers of Color Who Feed Us A new study from Colorlines.com’s publisher, the Applied Research Center, reveals deep inequity in the … Continue reading →