Link Love: Trying Not To Get Too Angry Addition
It’s sad that this has to be done, but Gina from What About Our Daughters has started a Michelle Obama Watch blog.
R. Kelly is acquitted.
As the verdicts were being read on Friday, the singer started crying and whispering “Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus,” over and over again, his lawyers said.
Jesus [...]
R.I.P. Bo Diddley
From the Associated Press:
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ’n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
Diddley died of heart failure at his home in Archer, Fla., spokeswoman Susan [...]
In Memory of Mildred Loving, Landmark of Civil Rights
Mildred Loving, who challenged Virginia’s anti-interracial marriage laws, resulting in the Supreme Court striking down laws against interracial marriages, passed away on Friday, 2 May.
From the AP:
RICHMOND, Va. - Mildred Loving, a black woman whose challenge to Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling striking down such laws nationwide, [...]
In Memory of Aimé Césaire
On Thursday, 17 April, the Martinique poet, activist, politician, and post-colonial theorist Aimé Fernand David Césaire died.
Césaire was a central figure in what can be considered the French version of the Harlem Renaissance. While in school at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he helped found L’Étudiant Noir (The Black Student), a literary journal dedicated to the [...]
In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’d like to take the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s death (I feel odd writing “anniversary.” The slight connotation of celebration is hard for me to shake, yet I can think of no better word right now.) to repost the Ten OTHER Things Martin Luther King Said video. In the wake of [...]
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