"One of the funniest experiences I had when I began working the art world is that people always assumed I worked for Thelma Golden, not that I was Thelma Golden. The kind of dismissal that comes from just people's sense that they don't imagine you are who you are actually has been one of the most powerful and liberating things for me in my work." — Thelma Golden, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Quote #12: Read a Book update
"I had to return home & participate in the work of nation building. I owed it to myself." - Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize winner & founder of Grameen Bank
Posted in Quotes, Read a Book Tagged bangladesh, community, grameen bank, honduras, microcredit, muhammad yunus, nation building, octavia butler Leave a comment
Journalists beware: CPJ names ten worst countries to be a blogger
In a new report issued to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, the Committee to Protect Journalists named the ten worst countries in the world to be a blogger.
Posted in For Discussion Tagged blogger, burma, china, committee to protect journalists, cuba, egypt, human rights, iran, prison, saudi arabia, syria, tunisisa, turkmenistan, vietnam, world press freedom day Leave a comment
Passage of Right: A Black Man’s Journey
"I grew up without my father and for much of my life imagined what that relationship was like; to have a father. Now the father of a daughter and son, I am committed to being a dedicated figure in the lives of my children in the hopes that I have done my part to heal the damages many black men and women have experienced due to significant lack of black male fathers and father figures."
