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protest: africans in the zoo

I put a hold on my H-Net Afro-Am mail while I am in Taos but I got this through another listserv I’m on. Please send this zoo director an e-mail in protest.

I am a German scholar of African American History and member of H-Net Afro-Am. Today I would like to direct your attention to something [...]

fuckin’ a

The amazing Ms. Zoe Strauss has been awarded a Pew Grant (http://www.pewarts.org/aboutpewfellows.html)!! There is justice in the world. Rock on, Zoe!

Malcolm X – gay black hero?

(Okay, Adrienne keeps telling me to post, so here’s something I was forwarded. I don’t even remember what or when it was but recently I saw Malcolm X’s name on a list of famous gays or bisexuals and it didn’t even register. Given the rampant push in this country to deny gay people their rights [...]

support minutemen protestors!

I was just forwarded this, so in the interest of expediency:
BREAKING NEWS: Garden Grove (CA) Police drop criminal charges against Hal Netkin In a phone call I just made to Garden Grove police, they have confirmed a rumor a CNN reporter passed on to me a couple of minutes ago that Hal Netkin was released [...]

psycho killer

Yes, I know this image is everywhere and yes, I believe he killed that woman (as my friend Carolyn points out, the media keeps referring to her as a B-movie actress as though that lessens her value as a victim) and yes, I really suspect that this hair is symptomatic of somebody crazy like a [...]

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 12, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 12, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]