Day 11: Art against femicide (Part I)

11th
Mar. × ’10

Honeyspace’s fourth show was called Portrait of Silvia Elena, a memorial to 17-year-old Silvia Elena Rivera Morales who was killed in 1995 — one of the first victims of the unsolved femicides taking place in Juarez, Mexico over the past 10 years.

Read More »

Posted in Culture Finds, homegirls & handgrenades | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Day 10: No kudos for ‘Precious’?

10th
Mar. × ’10

The Defenders' Stacey Patton is thankful the Academy of Motion Pictures did not award "a slew of Oscars" to Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire. "Call me a hater. I don’t care," she says.

Read More »

Posted in Culture Finds | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Read A Book: The traveling bookshelf

9th
Mar. × ’10

During my recent move I was forced to pack away most of my books. However, there were a few I could not hide in boxes, as I hoped to complete those before the close of the year. The remaining books, now stored in my suitcase, make for an interesting mix - and great conversation.

Read More »

Posted in Read a Book | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Henry Louis Gates celebrates Candomblé in Bahía

17th
Feb. × ’10

American scholar Henry Louis Gates makes his first trip to Bahía, on Brasil's northeastern Atlantic coast, for the start of Carnaval and celebrations of Candomblé, a Brasilian religious tradition that has retained many rites from the Ifa-based religions of Nigeria's Yoruba and Fon peoples.

Read More »

Posted in Culture Finds | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

An Appreciation of Lucille Clifton

16th
Feb. × ’10

The Root's Hollis Robbins shows love for poet Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate of the State of Maryland (1979-1985), who died on Saturday, February 13, 2010, in Baltimore.

Read More »

Posted in Culture Finds | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Quote #16: Frantz Fanon

22nd
Jan. × ’10

"He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me."

Read More »

Posted in Quotes | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Covering Haiti: When the Media Is the Disaster

22nd
Jan. × ’10

Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell takes a look at the media's coverage of the Haiti's January earthquake.

Read More »

Posted in For Discussion | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment
  •  

    March 2010
    M T W T F S S
    « Feb    
    1234567
    891011121314
    15161718192021
    22232425262728
    293031