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In Search of Our Daughters’ Gardens: A Meditation on Hadiya Pendleton’s Life*
She was 15. She was an honors student. The shooter remains at large. Her parents live in shock. Her school is in silent mourning. Residents of Chicago are outraged. A nation is unaware.
Where Are Black Americans in Lincoln?
Here, even Frederick Douglass could not muscle his way to a significant part. I could be missing an artistic point. Or, I could be being honest: after so much has been done, Black Americans just may never satisfied with anything done about it.
SULA
In Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula, published by Alfred Knopf at a time when “Black Power” commingled with Blaxploitation and Black revolution, three generations of impoverished Black "whores"—the third generation being educated, city-dwelling and experienced with “White men”—confront each other and their interior mysteries within their grand pre and post-Depression Ohio mansion. How is the home still standing? Who has passed through it? Who dies off within it? Who returns to claim it? Why are all levels occupied by vestiges of characters we would love to know better but almost hate to know at all—
Obama for America!
Obama!!!!! Here is to Barack, Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama leading our country into a new era of significance & meaning. Obama again! Have negression waiting in your inbox: Subscribe Today. Twitter | Pinterest | Kalisha.com
Thoughts on ‘The Help,’ starting with I love Viola and Octavia and Tavis, so I get it
We need to start separating the singular accomplishments of Black artists from the "Black" conversation as a whole in order to truly determine the merits of the work.
I love mad Black women even if no one else does…
In the elite class of First Ladies in which she resides and with nearly 50 predecessors before her, Mrs. Obama ranks among Abigail Adams, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy in terms of recognition, studiousness, diligent work and an identity of her own entirely separate from her world-leading husband.