October 11, 2010
The following was originally posted as a note on facebook by my friend and much respected colleague, Dr. David Malebranche. I watched the Oprah episode in question, and had many of the same concerns. There was some debate and responses …
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March 2, 2009
I have been extremely busy, overworked, and also really bored with blogging lately, so I am gonna do some more fun blogs that don’t follow the press. So being Women’s History Month, I am gonna focus most of my posts …
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June 2, 2008
My paternal grandmother died this past Friday. My grandmother was not a knitting and baking kinda granny. She chained smoked Pall Malls (she switched to the filtered kind only in the 1990′s). She loved to drink gin and juice. She …
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October 14, 2007
It seems really strange that the New York Times and the Washington Post would run news stories both taking place in Black beauty shops to talk about th efight for Black women’s vote in South Carolina. But today, they did. …
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Posted in News, Politics
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Tagged 2008 election, African-American vote, African-Americans, Barack Obama, beauty shop, Black vote, Black women, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, Washington Post
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October 13, 2007
If you’re in NYC, come check out this panel! Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality New York University presents GENDER, RACE, AND THE 2008 ELECTION “Are Americans ready to elect a woman or a black man as president?” …
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Posted in Health, Media, News, Politics
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Tagged 2008 election, African-American vote, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Black vote, Black women, Hillary Clinton, kenyon farrow, Letters from Young Activists, Marianna Torgovnick, New York University, Richard Kim, Tavia Nyong'o, The Nation, women vote
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