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It’s a hot, sticky, summer-won’t-let-go kind of September Sunday afternoon. Just the kind of day to mull over two topics I am passionate about: the politics of race and the politics of writing. I didn’t just read something about these two confluent issues in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Nor was there anything [...]
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Sep 29th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized
Tags: Cornel West, Craig L. Gidney, Dan Savage, Fiona Lewis, Fiona Zedde, From Where We Sit: Black Write4rs Write Black Youth, From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth, gender, Harlem Renaissance, homophobia, Jewelle Gomez, Leslie Thompson, LGBT youth, New York Times Book Review, oprah, race, Sapphire, Tee Corinne, the New Yorker, Tiny Satchel Press, Toni Morrison, writing, young adult writing, Zadie Smith, Zane
i know i am not the only one still waiting for president obama to make good on his big speech to HRC. one thing he could have done is to sign the hate crimes legislation instantaneously. one thing. another thing he could have done is issue a stop-loss order allowing all gays and lesbians in [...]
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Oct 24th, 2009 | Filed under Uncategorized
Tags: oprah, wanda sykes
