Any folks in the Bay Area tonight should check out this reading series, hosted by the esteemed Roger Porter. Not just because I’m one of the readers, but because it’s a dope series of talented lit slingers and the perfect way to cap off the Malcolm X Jazz Festival. “SOULFUL III: Revolutionary Dreams” Be ready for six of your favorite poets and writers to light up the microphone on Malcolm X day, 2013. Saturday, May ...
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Over the last couple of days I’ve been hearing about this story out of Bartow, Florida and it’s wrong on so many levels. By all accounts, 16 year old Kiera Wilmot is a model student-bright, curious and interested in science. She’s the kind of student we should be praising, the kind that STEM and Diversity in technology programs around the country are trying to nurture and encourage. But instead of joining a program like Black ...
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I found out about these guys when we were promoting the Black Futurists Speaks anthology and it sounds like a cool project. When we look up at the night sky, space is black as far as the eye can see. Yet, when we read novels about it or watch something on TV or in the movie theater, it is white beyond all comprehension. With this collection, we hope to give space some much needed … color, ...
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I woke up this morning suffering from extreme coffee deficiency. Then I saw this and fell in love with people again. Or at least with this guy:
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Say I’m Different is a celebration of the genius Black outliers, walking their own paths and keeping the culture bubbling on the margins. The goal of the project is to promote, examine and discuss the work of African Diaspora cultural figures that because of subject matter, viewpoint, trends, location etc. haven’t gotten the shine and attention their work merits. http://blackother.tumblr.com/
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