From All Things Considered on NPR: President-elect Barack Obama has been many things: lawyer, community organizer, politician — and writer. A panel of literary pundits, including Azar Nafisi, Rick Moody and Edwidge Danticat, assess his memoir Dreams from My Father and tell us what they think his writerly-ways might portend for his term in the […]
This was the year of Michael Jackson, Bryant Gumble and the extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act!
From Michael C. Moynihan at ReasonOnline: For political artists such as Rosler, the past eight years have been boom years, providing much opportunity for outrage (for those who remember the Reagan-era New York art scene, this is hardly surprising). But what will become of the perpetually outraged artist in the event of an Obama administration? […]
The year 1981 saw many achievements in African-American literature and drama literature when Charles Fuller won an award for A Soldier’s Play and Toni Morrison released her hit novel Tar Baby.
From David Swerdick at TheRoot.com: They are black Republicans… A rapidly disappearing political subculture that seeks legitimacy by asserting that they are something different, something special—the other dark meat. They define themselves—with a quizzical ethos of inverse snobbery often mistaken for self-loathing—by what they are not: Al Sharpton, in need of affirmative action, or “like […]
Check out the year 1980 when Robert Johnson founds Black Entertainment Television and the “Big O” gets inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame!
From Laura Brunts at the Atlantic: According to a recent Census Bureau report, whites could become a minority of the U.S. population as early as 2042. In the January/February issue of the Atlantic, contributor Hua Hsu explores the implications of this development from both a demographic and cultural perspective. To read more, click here. RETURN […]
Illustration by Felix Sockwell From Hua Hsu at the Atlantic: “Civilization’s going to pieces,” he remarks. He is in polite company, gathered with friends around a bottle of wine in the late-afternoon sun, chatting and gossiping. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by […]
Take a look back at the year that brought you the first Black mayor and the commercial success of Hip-Hop! RETURN to the CELEBRATE 44 MAIN PAGE Click here to read about Charles Drew! Click here to see video of Charles Drew! Click here to read about the 11 Questions to ask the Obama Science […]
