Image via Dr. Ergo Yesterday, Goldy and I were walking down New Hampshire. It was warm enough that Black folks were on their porches, and young folks of all races were walking their dogs. But on this particular stretch of street there wasn’t a lot of foot traffic. We walked pass an older Black man, [...]
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2012On the {Sexual} Politics of Viola Davis’s Natural Hair at the Oscars
Friday, March 16th, 2012It wasn’t until my homie Gisele, a Black woman and working actress pointed out to me that Viola Davis graduated from Julliard in the late 80′s, that my growing obsession with Davis began to make sense. In Davis, I saw myself. I saw the struggles of so many Black women who try to remain whole [...]
The Choices that Creatives Make
Saturday, December 31st, 2011Image via Metro Times Dedicated to Jonzey and our conversations about Hennessy / Carol’s Daughters sponsored art. This post is about money, artists and how corporations are deliberate and never neutral. Spending the last few months teaching a multiracial group of young people about race, art, class, history and feminism, I have learned a lot [...]
On Kim Kardashian’s Empire and Race
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011On Clutch Danielle Belton has an excellent and problematic post titled, “Celebrating the Black Beauty on White Women”. She discusses in general the politics of race and women’s bodies as well as the politics of White artists performing what has historically been seen as Black music (see Eminem, Elvis and Adele). I am really interested [...]
The City is Like Chitlins: Notes on Gentrification in Washington, DC.
Friday, July 22nd, 2011Peace to Janel for staying on me to write about class. Peace to Latoya Peterson for reminding me to think about how cities are similar, different and the reasons why DC, with it’s 25 miles, is special to me. I once said that the city was like chitlin’s. Moving from the deep South to DC, [...]
The Politics of Making a “Black Film” in Obama’s America
Monday, January 31st, 2011Image of director Kasi Lemmons courtesy of Professor Sussoro’s Blog Last fall I tweeted that a barometer of Black women’s freedom would be their ability to control, tell, and distribute their own stories. Having seen Push, and now For Colored Girls, two movies based on texts written by Black women about Black women, but directed [...]
White Husbands and Black Maids: from Drylongso
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Gimmie a Break on You Tube, for a refresher on Black maids I read Drylongso by John Gwaltney while working on The Crack Project. Drylongso is an ethnography of? Black people in North Eastern cities in the late seventies. Ironically, The Graduate (the man for whom I played number two a few years back//that was [...]
Musing on a [Lack of a] US Negro Agenda
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010I dedicate this to Latoya and Matthew. LaToya, write that post girl. Im waiting. Matthew, thank you encouraging me to write honest, from the get go. I think it was Chomsky who said that Democracies by their very nature are fragile. But then again, isn’t any democracy stable? Isn’t it fragile, delicate, tenuous and exceptional? [...]
