Today, I want to encourage remembrance of a young man I never met but felt like I knew anyway. #HappyBirthdayTrayvon Continue reading
Remembering Trayvon Martin on His Birthday…
Category Archives: #BlackLivesMatter
Make a Difference Today for Black Art and Culture
I still have 24 hours to urge all my readers, followers and fans to contribute to this very significant Kickstarter campaign. $5000 must be raised today, or early tomorrow morning, to fund the entire $12,000 goal. Continue reading
I am not clapping for Moonlight just because I am Black.
25 years from now, a new generation will still have no clue who August Wilson or Katharine Johnson are. However, they will have a “classic” Best Picture still popping up. It will use pretty arthouse shots and soaring classical music to show them Black women were crackheads who neglected and abused their sons to grow up into sexually-conflicted drug dealers who fight not to hate them for it. Continue reading
“I am not sure there was a better place”… Part 3 of Q & A with Dr. Sharony Green on “Fancy Girls,” women and more in American history
“I think as more scholars and laymen are courageous enough to tell and discuss these messy stories, the stain will be there although inside a larger narrative. The stain is the multi-layered pain. The stain is also complacency with old stories that rightly emphasize real oppression, although to the exclusion of evidence that complicates the oppression.” -Sharony Green…from the final installment of her interview for her recently-released book, Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press; 2015; $24.95; ISBN: 978-0-87580-723-2). Continue reading
