March 1st, it’s International Women of Colour Day! by Marian, at Marian's Blog 1:05 pm / 01 March 2010
Wishing every woman of colour a wonderful International Women of Colour Day, today and for the days, months and years ahead.
Posts tagged Colored America
Understatement by Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Reps by Marian, at Marian's Blog 5:19 am / 03 October 2008
"... I don't think we've invested well... in the last few years..." - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (daughter of late mayor of Baltimore, Maryland; multimillionaire; Democratic congresswoman, 8th Congressional district, California - San Francisco) on the current state of U.S....
One reason I won’t vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead) by Marian, at Marian's Blog 4:09 am / 25 September 2008
Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...
Global crisis: Congress was warned in 2000 of predatory loans by Marian, at Marian's Blog 3:52 pm / 21 September 2008
Thanks to my sister for sharing news of veteran U.S. legal aid attorney William Brennan and his testimony in Congress on 24 May 2000. So Congress had first-hand knowledge of what was going on from an attorney helping elderly, often...
My greatgrandfather, Thomas Gudger, who died in Chanute, Kansas, 1913 by Marian, at Marian's Blog 6:11 am / 13 March 2008
Today I am writing to remember and honour Thomas Gudger, father of my maternal grandmother and her three brothers. I never met any of my grandmother's brothers. Thomas Gudger died on this day in March 1913, in a place called...
The international conversations Black America’s not having: Reading Yvonne Bynoe by Marian Douglas, at Marian's Blog 9:45 am / 04 February 2008
Came across an interesting article from nearly a year ago: author Yvonne Bynoe's Black America After Jim Crow: Still Feels Like Segregation, published on AlterNet. (They have good stuff and deserve your consideration of $upport.) For decades I've been having...
Fannie Lou Hamer’s long road to Denver, the 2008 Democratic National Convention by Marian Douglas, at Marian's Blog 2:01 pm / 04 December 2007
The 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver marks a mere forty (40) years since Fannie Lou Hamer became the first post-Reconstruction Black American official delegate of a U.S. national political party convention. So many other things about the 1968 Democratic...
So where’s my white folks??? Cheney and Barack Obama related by Marian Douglas, at Marian's Blog 3:49 pm / 17 October 2007
To be honest the only real news about Dick Cheney and Barack Obama being related is that yet again we see a person from a different background is treated quite differently from we Black Americans. Just like the central yet...
Major Owens unveils Black Caucus Members’ opinion survey by Marian Douglas, at Marian's Blog 1:25 pm / 28 September 2007
The Congressional Black Caucus annual legislative conference ends tomorrow, Saturday. Monday, Oct 1st, I plan to attend "A New Challenge to the Congressional Black Caucus", my former boss Major Owens' Library of Congress think-tank panel on the CBC and his...
3 votes shy: Dems Baucus, Byrd & GOP halt S. 1257, DC Voting Rights by Marian Douglas, at Marian's Blog 9:01 pm / 18 September 2007
I couldn't believe the news at mid-afternoon today that on a 57 "yes" to 42 "no" voice vote, the U.S. Senate today failed to endorse S. 1257. This bill finally would have given Washington, the District of Columbia its own...
