The Oscars is just minutes away and all I have on my mind right now is…PRECIOUS. I first saw Precious on the cover of the NYT magazine last summer and got very excited! Finally! A large, black, woman, is making positive inroads in a movie world that is riddled with stereotypical roles for people of color, but NOT PRECIOUS. In […]
Writers Against Racism: Saved By Her Enemy by Don Teague & Rafraf Barrak
"I’m no different than anybody else here." -Rafraf Barrak, SAVED BY HER ENEMY CBS News Correspondent, Don Teague, sent me his first book SAVED BY HER ENEMY by Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak (Howard Books/Simon & Schuster 2010) and as a former journalist who now teaches (and blogs), it’s a book that should be used […]
Writers Against Racism: Majora Carter’s tale of urban renewal
As I prepare for tomorrow’s #TEDxNYED conference, I’ve been inspired by tweets coming in from @cervus who responded to a tweet I sent with: "@abowllan Oh, great blog [referring to mine – blush]! Chimamanda Adichie’s TEDtalk is amazing, do you know Gilbert’s and Carter’s?" So please…check out Majora Carter, as we need more voices like hers! And […]
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