Aime Cesaire est mort aujourd'hui. Aime Cesaire has died today. We awoke to this news, 17 April 2008. He made it to age 94. The Martiniquan poet, novelist, playwright and former mayor of Fort de France and member of French...
posted 10:57 am at Marian's Blog
My thank-you to John Edwards and family, and everyone who worked so long and hard on this campaign. It will have been one for the history books. As the Edwards campaign notified the press today, one news commentator noted that...
posted 1:13 pm at Marian's Blog
Today is the actual anniversary of Martin Luther King's birth. He would have been 79. It's interesting that for some reason he chose to change his name from Michael to Martin. Over the course of 2008 I'm paying attention to...
posted 5:21 am at Marian's Blog
As the candidate said last night in New Hampshire, I too am on the John Edwards grassroots campaign bandwagon right through my ancestral South Carolina, called "the Black Primary", and the other 47, right up to the Democratic Party convention...
posted 8:16 am at Marian's Blog
Looking back at the tampered 2000 and 2004 U.S. elections from today, Tuesday, January 1st, 2008, it is crystal clear we now are down to the wire for democracy in America. No joke, folks. We need John Edwards for president...
posted 6:43 pm at Marian's Blog
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...
posted 2:01 pm at Marian's Blog
Whatever else Martin King III may need for his new venture, you have to give him credit him for excellent timing. King has announced he is ready to take up his father's fight against poverty. No one else with a...
posted 12:51 pm at Marian's Blog
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...
posted 1:25 pm at Marian's Blog
It feels like everyone meets in September. The annual CBC - Congressional Black Caucus - Legislative Conference is underway through Saturday. Looking at the conference dates apparently the traditional Sunday morning prayer breakfast may no longer be fully included, though...
posted 7:19 am at Marian's Blog
The violent crackdown everyone dreaded is on in Burma. International press are reporting one Japanese man is dead after being shot today by soldiers. This now brings Japan (also a Buddhist country) into the picture. The military controls Internet service...
posted 6:56 am at Marian's Blog