NPR’s News and Notes has a great interview with actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson on his role in the Nova documentary Forgotten Genius about the life of Percy Julian. Don’t know who Percy Julian is? Well, you’re not alone. When most folks think of influential black scientists,
My maternal grandomther’s grandfather was a preacher named George Dallas Finley. A few years ago I asked some of my relatives to tell me about him and I ended up with a lot of amazing stories about the whole family. As part of Our Black
Here’s the thing. I have no idea if I’m supposed to be offended by this video or not. But I don’t care. Cuz I haven’t laughed this damn hard in at least three days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHJH9Siq7w] Found on this blog, which I might actually decide to
Things happen fast on the Internets, kids. In my Black History Month post last week I said that I wanted to make this month useful again by having folks bring up history and people that are ignored or forgotten. Included in that was wanting to
Mary Cheney is having a baby, but she doesn’t want anybody to use her precious embryo for politics. (This is a baby. This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop.) Dan Savage has a few choice
Alleged Former Abu Ghraib Guard Discussed Gang Rape in Video From the Transcript: (Bold type denotes off-camera voice of one of two other men present **** indicates an edit in the tape.) Get this on tape man. Say it again. Say again what happened. Say
Yesterday I was poking around on Wikipedia fixing crazy shit in some posts when I decided to go ahead and make an account so I could stop getting the “We’re recording your IP addess for all time!” message. For my username I chose theangryblackwoman because,
It’s February. Black History Month is upon us again. *rolls eyes* Huey Freeman (of Boondocks fame) summed it up best when he said: Every Black History Month it’s the same thing – the Underground railroad and George Washington Carver. Like nothing else ever happened to
Dear Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, Police Commissioner Edward Davis, and Governor Deval Patrick, In regards to yesterday’s ‘bomb scare’ and the subsequent revelation that the suspicious devices were merely an ad campaign for Adult Swim: It’s barely been 24 hours since this all
One of the things I love to do is look at the search terms people use to get to this site. It helps to explain why certain posts get a lot of hits, but it’s also an interesting sketch of the collective Internet psyche. My