Felix Salmon gives the case for not donating money to Japan: In the specific case of Japan, there’s all the more reason not to donate money. Japan is a wealthy country which is responding to the disaster, among other things, by printing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of new money. Money is not the bottleneck Read More
The Internet again justifies its existence: “In 1978, [Phylicia Allen (now Phylicia Rashād)] released the album Josephine Superstar, a disco Concept album telling the life story of Josephine Baker. The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Rashād’s second husband Victor Willis, original lead singer and lyricist of the Village People. She Read More
In a dozen states, felons leave prison saddled with thousands of dollars in debt from child-support payments that continued to accrue while they were behind bars, and that they’ll likely never be able to pay.
Sorry things have been so slow around here. We’re gonna rectify this in the next few days. In the meantime, here are some links for you perusal: Justin Elliot picks the brain Faiza Patel, a national security expert, about the myth of Islamic radicalization. There are these very oversimplified theories of radicalization. One is from a Read More
The first and second installments of a four-part series of mock commercials part of Pierre Bennu’s larger series of paintings and films “deconstructing and re-envisioning images of people of color in commercial and pop culture.” Had me chortling in all sort of inappropriateness here at the college library cafe. Check Bennu’s exittheapple.com for more thought/art-provoking Read More
Got an email the other day from an HU college buddy asking me to sign a petition started by Change.org asking that I “Tell the New York Times to issue a published apology for their coverage of this incident and publish an editorial from a victim’s rights expert on how victim blaming in the media Read More
The countries neighboring the Ivory Coast are worried that violence there may spread. After being told their baby had no chance of survival, an Iowa couple was forced to see the pregnancy to term and watch the child die because state law prohibits abortion after 20 weeks. Latoya on being the token Negro on feminist Read More
Wilmer Leon III, a political science professor at Howard, disagrees with the Supreme Court’s decision in Snyder v. Phelps, which held that the reprehensible Westboro Baptist Church — the family of “God hates fags” infamy — was within their rights to protest at the funeral of Matthew Snyder, who was killed in a Humvee crash Read More
(2008 footage of Lignon’s work, textimonies, narrated by Kayla Kuhn) On March 10 the Whitney Museum of American Art will present “Glenn Ligon: America,” more than 100 Lignon works, which will be on view through June 5. Most famous for his abstract text-meets-paintings (and popular for the Obama’s for buying some of it for their Read More
