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...
posted 9:45 am at Marian's Blog
"Grambling had football. Southern had football and academics." These were my words as I described to a lady my view of the legendary, continuing rivalry between two Louisiana schools, both historically Black: Southern University and Grambling University. Each fall Southern...
posted 1:30 pm at Marian's Blog
I should've posted this weeks ago but here goes. If anyone believes there's a level playing field in competing for leadership in the US, you need to remove your head from whatever hole in which it's stuck. Just because it's...
posted 12:03 pm at Marian's Blog
My brother just shared with me that the annual, public, free SOBU conference - the State of the Black Union - sponsored by broadcaster Tavis Smiley, is now being televised on CSPAN. Tavis says there are 5,000 persons attending the...
posted 11:15 am at Marian's Blog
Einstein on Race and Racism is written by Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor. This is their Preface to the book. More than one hundred biographies and monographs of Einstein have been published, yet not one of them mentions the name...
posted 5:31 am at Marian's Blog
This information is from the Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) campus website. Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fundis offering US$500 emergency scholarships to students affected by Hurricane Katrina who normally attend SUNO, and also to students who are from New Orleans who...
posted 7:57 pm at Marian's Blog
In the so-called mainstream media no one but no one documents Black American (or other Black) philanthropy. Perhaps most insulting, many aren't even aware our philanthropy exists not to mention the fact that in the US at least, our assistance...
posted 11:30 pm at Marian's Blog
I don't know in what year Langston Hughes wrote I Dream a World. I know he was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri in the US midwest, what some folks call the American heartland. His full name was James Langston...
posted 7:00 am at Marian's Blog
June 15 is the application deadline for the first Workshop of Young Scholars from the Global South (WYSGS), 9–16 Oct 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland. The programme is for "outstanding young scholars ... specializing in the study of international relations," and...
posted 2:17 pm at Marian's Blog