There’s a game I like to play when I walk into a bookstore. Based on the the title, cover and store placement I can always interpret the marketing intention for a book meant for a black American audience. The best part of this game is that the books will, typically, fit into the following categories Read More
(via Alexander Russo.)
Cross-posted from TAPPED During a House hearing on the Improving Nutrition for America’s Children Act yesterday, Rep. Yvette D. Clarke noted how all of these programs to encourage healthy eating and increased physical activity to fight childhood obesity ignore the simple problem many children have, especially in cities: No safe places to play. While it Read More
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Jake Blumgart at Campus Progress has a fun post up on drinking union-made alcohol this 4th of July: To my knowledge, there are three major unions in the world of alcoholic beverages. 1. The United Autoworkers (UAW). Highly ironic. 2. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAW). See above. 3. The United Food and Read More
Please work your voodoo magic and make sure that this becomes the official poster for your adaptation of ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.’ I’m already worried about how the adaptation is going to turn out. At least give us something to look forward to and be hopeful for. Read More
Over at TAPPED, I touched on the racial controversy surrounding The Last Airbender, which opens today. (Cliff’s Notes version: the series on which its based is set in an Asian world; in the movie, the main good guys are white and the bad guys are brown.) The blog Racebending, which has done a fantastic job Read More
(Cross-posted from TAPPED) Along with his fellow Republicans, Jeff Sessions spent much of the first day of Elena Kagan‘s confirmation hearings weirdly taking aim at the storied judicial career ofThurgood Marshall. Why? Because Marshall was an enemy of originalists, and the senators wanted to portray Kagan, who clerked for him, as cut from the same ideological cloth. Later Read More
Crossposted from CampusProgress.org With only 19 percent of Americans aware [PDF] that Elena Kagan is the nominee being confirmed to the Supreme Court this week, it’s not a surprise that some are questioning the usefulness of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings. While Newsweek calls the hearings “boring” and “unilluminating,” The New York Times reports Read More
