Saturday, September 20, 2008

Creating Sacred Places: Barack Obama and the Legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune

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With the eyes of the world on Bethune-Cookman University today as Barack Obama speaks there, I can think only of how different our nation wo...
Friday, September 19, 2008

HBCUs and Homophobia: A Brief Source Guide

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As an aid to anyone using this blog today to research the historic contributions HBCUs have made to dialogue about social justice in America...

Caged Birds and Songs They Sing

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Thinking of cages as this day goes on. Specifically, of Maya Angelou’s autobiographical statement about why the caged bird sings. From the ...

An Open Letter to Barack Obama: HBCUs and Homophobia

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Dear Mr. Obama: To address this open letter to you, I am interrupting a thread on this blog that touches on painful personal experiences of ...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Economic Crisis: Hard Come, Easy Go (2)

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And as I prepare to stitch the next piece into this narrative, I realize that something that happened over the lunch hour today offers a div...

The Economic Crisis: Hard Come, Easy Go

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WARNING : The following interconnected postings may contain adult material and hard language. Parents are counseled to take this rating ver...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Blog Disclaimers and Free Speech: More Legal ≠ Ethical

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Wow. I open my stats counter this morning to find that nearly 400 people read my blog yesterday (correction: I have re-checked, and the fig...