uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Listen to the entire program Support the Pacifica Radio Archives at 1-800-735-0230 or at www.supportPRA.org. Most progressives, when asked about their favorite history book, cite Howard Zinn’s People History of the United States. I would be one of them. Indeed Zinn’s book has been long considered a pioneering text that tells American history from [...]
Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
1919 Sylvia Beach opened Shakespeare and Company, the first combination English-language book shop and lending library in Paris. Beach befriended many of the world's writers, particularly in the 1920s and '30s, when her shop was a gathering place for expatriate writers and French authors pursuing new found interest in US literature. She also published the first edition of James Joyce 's Ulysses . The...
Dialogic (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Baldwin, James. “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is'” The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children . eds. T. Perry and L. Delpit. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998: If … one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that blacks learned more about themselves and their real contribution to this culture, you...
Ed Batista (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin My colleague Trina Roach tweeted this quote the other day, and it caught my attention. (And I'm not alone--a...
Black Gay Gossip (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
There’s a new exhibit at the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, RI, titled “Black Lavender 2.” It examines the lives and accomplishments of more than 30 gay black men with some kind of connection to the state. The exhibit, which opened on November 5, consists of items such as [...]
Kenyanpoet - A Kenyan Artistic Space (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Virn Instruments company , a firm run by Kahenya Kamunyu whom I first met during the first ever Bar Camp in Kenya a year ago has embarked on a unique project dubbed Ukurasa (page in kiswahili) Ukurasa is a social media site for books that is geared towards the exchange of books through either sale or sharing as well as place where would be writers can get to write books online through their personal...
Jeremiah's Vanishing New York (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Before 2009 is over, there's still time to visit the Lenox Lounge and celebrate its 70th year in Harlem. photos from my flickr Opened in 1939, the Lenox Lounge was, according to its website, "the back drop for many jazz legends such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane . The Jazz Club also known as the Zebra Room was once used by the Harlem Renaissance writes James Baldwin and Langston...
Escape Adulthood (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but the economy is bad. Like, really bad. It’s not a good time to go out and do anything outlandish, like start a business or invest in learning a new skill. You definitely want to keep risk taking to a minimum, that’s for sure. Oh, and the housing market [...]
WireTap Magazine (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
You know, for a good portion of my life I've been thoroughly convinced that San Francisco just doesn't like Black people -- well, at least not poor , trans , previously incarcerated, or homeless ones . But it looks like I was wrong. City politicians and developers (it's okay if they're the same, right') really do like Black folks. Especially dead ones (They, like, totally dig Jimi Hendrix !). The latest...
Isak (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
By now, surely I've made it quite clear how much I love James Baldwin. So I am pleased to see that his interview with The Paris Review is now available online. (It is also collected in the second volume of The Paris Review Interviews, a must-have collection of conversations with the most fascinating writers of the last sixty years.) An excerpt: Interviewer: Do you think painters would help a fledgling...
Daily Painters International Art Gallery (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ARTIST~MARINA PETRO, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY USA "Shadows" 5x7 inches on canvas panel Purchase at my ETSY SHOP or email me for other purchasing options. (link is below.) Today's Quotation: "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone." -James Baldwin Email Me Blog Be my fan on...
Daily Painters Marketplace (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
ARTIST~MARINA PETRO, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY USA "Shadows" 5x7 inches on canvas panel Purchase at my ETSY SHOP or email me for other purchasing options. (link is below.) Today's Quotation: "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone." -James Baldwin Email Me Blog Be my fan on...
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Charges of Iceberg Slim's misogyny may well stick, but he wrote from the inside, documented people who snorted cocaine and stuck needles in their arms, people who sold their bodies, who wore expensive clothes, who beat women with coathangers. As Irvine Welsh says, "one of his most endearing features was that Iceberg Slim never sought any insincere exoneration for the life he led…Iceberg...
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
We perceive our self as an object ‘Object is container' is, I think, a useful metaphor. The object has an inside and an outside with a boundary...
Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
In 1963, the author James Baldwin came to San Francisco to explore the increasing sense of bitterness and isolation felt by urban youths in America. He chose San Francisco in order to peer beneath its veneer of liberal acceptance. He found a city that he declared was no better than Birmingham, Alabama. Racism and discrimination were everywhere, if a little more genteelly hidden. A KQED television...
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