Monthly Archives: August 2011

News Observing Photo Gallery Magazine Archive Shop at Sky News NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU Bulletin at a Glance News Observing This Week’s Sky at a Glance Community Opportunity Reaches Its New Home August 11, 2011 | The … Continue reading →

  August 11, 2011 Colorlines.com Direct | Published by the Applied Research Center Jezebels, Welfare Queens—And Now, Criminally Bad Black Moms Raquel Nelson’s shocking prosecution revealed a new caricature in the centuries-long demonization of black women. “The thread that joins … Continue reading →

Jezebels, Welfare Queens—And Now, Criminally Bad Black Moms Photos: Flavio Leone)(silhouette), Joelk75 (mammy dolls), NCReedplayer(food stamps)/Crea by Julianne Hing Monday, August 8 2011, 10:30 AM EST The shocking Cobb County, Ga., prosecution of Raquel Nelson, who law enforcement blamed when … Continue reading →

Last ‘Pink Triangle’ Dies, Gay-Bashers Alive and Well by Leah Nelson on August 8, 2011   In a moment of disturbing irony, the death last week of the last known gay survivor of Hitler’s concentration camps coincided with a cultural … Continue reading →

The festering venom of racism has taken the life of a black man who committed no crime except in the eyes of those who disregarded his very right to live. James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker of Jackson, … Continue reading →

I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. I do not weep at the world. I am … Continue reading →

Fredericka Carolyn “Fredi” Washington (December 23, 1903 - June 28, 1994), was a dancer, writer, actress, vocalists, and civil rights activist. Born in Savannah, Georgia, she went to St. Elizabeth Convent in Pennsylvania, then attended the Egri School of Writing and the … Continue reading →

DELOIS BARRETT CAMPBELL, GOSPEL SINGER Paul Natkin/WireImage The Barrett Sisters, a prominent Chicago gospel trio, at a performance in Dallas in 2003, from left, Rodessa Barrett Porter, Delois Barrett Campbell and Billie Barrett GreenBey. By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: August 4, … Continue reading →