June is Black Music Month – Old School Finale

Yep, we’re gonna kick it old school for this last one… there were way too many to pick from … so this may just roll over into July.
Stevie Wonder – Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing

Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas [...]

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The Saartjie Project

Please go over to Womanist Musings to read about the Saartjie Project, a collective of artists and activists using community theater to explore politics around the black female body.

In the 19th century, Saartjie Baartman, a Khosian woman who became known as the “Hottentot Venus” was put on exhibit in Europe as a freak [...]

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Okay, wow.

Just…wow.
Edited to add: So now there’s this.
Edited again to add CNN’s take (kind of a stupid one, though).

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Happy Pride 2008

To those who participated, those who wanted to but couldn’t, and those who will next time…

Via this dear friend:
Happy Pride Parade 2008
In the name of Peace and Pride
On behalf of The Holy, who is our Divine Beloved
Because WE are Holy
We march today
For those who cannot march
For those who have marched before
For those who have no [...]

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Garden blogging….

Gone a couple of days and before we left, the tomato plants were all blossoms:

Get back today to see a couple of these (just a little bigger than a quarter):

We’ll be gone next week, so it looks like neighbors/pet sitters might enjoy the first tomatoes. This guy, however, is getting consumed today:

And yes, you [...]

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Summertime music….

Oooh, a tag.
The guidelines:
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your seven songs. Then tag [...]

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Education as the Practice of Freedom

From bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, (NY: Routledge, 1994).
To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can learn. That learning process comes easiest to those of us who teach who also believe that there is an aspect of our vocation that [...]

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June 27 – National HIV Testing Day

Today, women account for more than one quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. Women of color are especially affected by HIV infection and AIDS. In 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available), HIV infection was
*the leading cause of death for black women (including African American women) aged 25–34 years.
*the 3rd leading cause [...]

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Zimbabwe

Whether you pray, meditate, appeal to the ancestors… whatever you do, do it on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe today.

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Sometimes You Dance

Last week Anxious Black Woman posted on Teaching While Black, and then a couple of days later made some reflections on Racism 2.0, or colorblind racism. If you haven’t read those posts, you should. Here are some questions raised:
And when my current crop of students this summer treat me as if I’m an [...]

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