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The Nightmare and The Dream: Reviews and Endorsements

To buy on Amazon.com click here Book Review by Dan Tres Omi In the last several years, there have been quite a few healthy tomes written about hip hop culture. Unfortunately, a large portion of th… more →

the HNIC Report

What would Bunche, DuBois and Nkrumah say about the Obama trip? — 1 comment

askiatek2008 wrote 1 week ago: In 1935, a teacher from the sprawling domains of the former Ashanti empire arrived in Harlem, seekin … more →

Tags: Africa, African Union, Food Security, G8 summit in Italy, Ghana, kwame nkrumah, Malia and Sasha Obama, Michelle Obama, Nelson Mandela

Guerrilla Show II

sweetbabylou wrote 2 months ago: Fine & Dandy Trio in W.E.B. DuBois Elevator WordPress video For our second foray into capturin … more →

Tags: Online Exclusives, Video, Sweet Baby Lou, Reverends of Funk, WMUA, 9/11, new music, UMass Amherst, amherst music

without an end to cowardliness, there can be no progress.

kleopatrajoanz wrote 3 months ago: In the past few days, much has been said about General Attorney Eric Holder\’s comment th … more →

Tags: identity, Race Relations, Discrimination, double-consciousness, eric holder, prejudice, Progress, racism, Segregation

Is Black the New White?

presencecomm wrote 3 months ago: The color black has been long associated with darkness, heaviness, and burdened and negativity. In t … more →

Tags: Politics, African American News, President, obama, Yes We Can, Entitlement, Martin Luther King, black, White

Conversation 3/16/09 - I hate waking up mad, too — 15 comments

Locohama wrote 4 months ago: This conversation took place between myself and my boy EZ yesterday. Actually it was via my blog com … more →

Tags: angry black man, Life in Japan, Japan, Japanese Culture, writing, Brooklyn, New York, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin

And the winner is ... — 2 comments

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 4 months ago: David Russell tames more than animals. He won the Black History Month Quiz, too. David Russell!!!! D … more →

Tags: Black History, 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 15th Amendment, 3/5ths clause, Abraham Lincoln, Ain't I A Woman, Alden Loury, Alysia Tate

Skip to the Beat — 1 comment

wpbkids wrote 4 months ago: I was catching up on my blog reading this week and one of my favorites, Crazy for Kids Books, did a … more →

Tags: Books, Music, Reviews, Authors, blogs, Reading, West Palm Beach, West Palm Beach Public Library, Read-alouds

Black History Month Culture Celebration - 2009 Summary

fredyt3 wrote 4 months ago: Most of you who subscribe to our Blog, now we feature several as we attempt to be specific and topic … more →

Tags: Real Estate, realtist, Black History Month, Kwanzaa, Dred Scott, Carter G. Woodson, Faubourg Treme, Booker T. Washington, scholars

Are the Humanities a Luxury? — 2 comments

artsetoile wrote 4 months ago: by Emily Waldorf If you are a college student in today’s economic climate is it smart to stud … more →

Tags: Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Academics, COLUMBIA, President Obama, Lincoln, Patricia Cohen

African Americana Photographs at Swann Galleries — 1 comment

atfa wrote 4 months ago: Swann Galleries Auction is holding their annual Printed and Manuscript African Americana auction sal … more →

Tags: collecting, photography market, american photography, Auctions, Slavery, Carl Van Vechten, Photography, Auction

10 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Know — 2 comments

sethpickens wrote 5 months ago: 1. Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, only spoke Dutch as a child. 2. Thurgood Marshall was ex … more →

Tags: Society, Black History Month, Martin Luther King, morehouse, Alpha Phi Alpha, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Samuel L. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall

Would America Be America?

Miss D. wrote 5 months ago: The original violin was modeled after the susa of Africa which was made from a gourd, not the Europe … more →

Tags: Philadelphia Love, Fun in Philly, STIMULATE UR MIND!!!, The African American Experience, Philadelphia, Barack Obama, The National Constitution Center, Muhammad Ali, Prince

Book Comments - "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois

stevesquires wrote 5 months ago: This is another book that I wanted to read in 2009. I was motivated to read it because it was on th … more →

Tags: General, Books, Souls of Black Folk, DuBois, African-American History, Slavery, Reconstruction, History

Black History Month: Martin Duberman's Paul Robeson Biography — 2 comments

jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 5 months ago: Martin Duberman depicts the talent and travails of the immensely gifted and politically bold Paul Ro … more →

Tags: Black History, Black History Month, Paul Robeson, Essie Robeson, C.L.R. James, Martin Duberman, Rutgers University, Columbia Law School, Jackie Robinson