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 [...]