Archive for the 'Womanism' Category
Entering The Arena: The Right Wing Attacks on Zerlina Maxwell
• March 12, 2013 • Leave a CommentPosted in African American History, American Politics, Black People, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Crime, Cultural History, Democrats, Domestic Violence, Education, Facebook, Hate Crimes, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Race, Rape, Rape/Sex Crimes, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Harassment, Sexuality, Slavery, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Womanism, Women
Tags: "The Ed Show", African Americans, Blacks, Bystander Effect, ColorLines, Death Threats, Ebony Magazine, Faux Noise, Fox News, Fox News Channel, Grio, Hannity, Harassment, Hate Crimes, Imprisonment, International Women's Day, LGBT, Maxwell, Rape, Sean Hannity, Sex, Steubenville Ohio, Twitter, VAWA, Washington Times, Zerlina Maxwell
Serena Does It Again at Wimbledon; Shares Doubles Title with Sister Venus
• July 7, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in Auto-Immune Diseases, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Health, Sports, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Travel, United Kingdom, Venus and Serena Williams, Womanism, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Agnieszka Radwańska, Andrea Hlaváčková, Black Women, Blacks, Centre Court, Grand Slam, Love, Martina Navratilova, Radwanska, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Serena, Serena Williams, The Championships Wimbledon, United States, Venus, Venus Williams, Williams
Saturday Night Music, July 7, 2012: “Sowing the Seeds of Love,” Tears for Fears, 1989
• July 7, 2012 • Comments OffPosted in Class, European History, Love, Music, Tears for Fears, The Economy, United Kingdom, Womanism, Women, World History
Tags: "Songs from the Big Chair", Curt Smith, George Martin, Margaret Thatcher, Oldies, Oleta Adams, Roland Orzabal, Seeds of Love, Sowing the Seeds of Love, Tears for Fears, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Sixties, United States, Woman in Chains
All Female and Nearly All Black: Democratic Georgia State Senators Walk Out Protesting a War on Women
• March 11, 2012 • 2 CommentsPosted in Abortion, African American History, American Politics, Black People, Chicanos/Latinos, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Education, Health, People of Color, Race, Race and the Health Care Debate, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, The Tea Party Movement, Womanism, Women
Tags: Abortion, Access, African Americans, Barry Goldwater, Birth Control, Black Women, Blacks, Democratic Party (United States), Georgia Senate, Georgia State Senate, Planned Parenthood, Reproductive Rights, Republican, Richard Nixon, Women of Color, Womens Rights, Young Black Women
A Work in Progress Trailer of “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth”
• March 10, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Alice Walker, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Education, Fiction Writing, Film, Love, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Race, Reproductive Rights, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Alice Walker, Arts, Black Women, Blacks, British Film Institute, Danny Glover, Film Documentary, LGBT, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Love, March 2012, Movies, Pratibha Parmar, Racism, Rebecca, Rebecca Walker, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steven Spielberg, The Color Purple, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Seventies, The Sixties, United States, Walker
Kimberly Anyadike Becomes The Youngest Black Woman To Fly Solo Across The U.S.
• January 4, 2012 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Education, Kimberly Anyadike, Love, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: African American, African Americans, Black Girl, Black Girls, Black Teen, Black Teens, California, Children, CNN, Flying, Girl Pilot, Good News, Google, Growing Up, Kimberly, Kimberly Anyadike, News One, Pilot, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, United States, Woman Pilot, Your Black World
Some Wednesday Love: “I Am The Black Gold of The Sun,” Nuyorican Soul and Rotary Connection
• November 2, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Film, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Nuyorican Soul, People of Color, Puerto Ricans, Rotary Connection, Spirituality, The Economy, Wisconsin, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Arts, Black Spirituality, Black Women, Blacks, Chess Records, Donyale Luna, Jimi Hendrix, Jocelyn Brown, Love, Madison WI, Minnie Riperton, Music, Naomi Sims, New York City, Nikki Giovanni, Nuyorican, Puerto Rico, Racism, Richard Rudolph, Rotary Connection, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Shopping, Spirituality, Sun, The Seventies, United States, YouTube
Tracy Morgan: It Wasn’t Humor or Free Speech, It Was Hate and An Apology Is Too Little Too Late
• June 13, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Bullying/Juvenile Crimes, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drug Culture/Industry, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Pedophilia/Child Kidnapping, People of Color, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexual Harassment, Television, Television Series, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "30 Rock", "Bossypants", Aberration, African Americans, Anus, Barack Obama, Black Women, Blacks, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, Child Abuse, Chris Rock, Comedians, Comedy, Common Sense, Drug Culture, Emmy Award, Gays, Hate Speech, Heterosexual, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Kevin Rogers, Lenny Bruce, LGBT, Lorne Michaels, Love, Murder, Penis, Prison Behavior, Racism, Rape, Richard Pryor, Ryman Auditorium, Saturday Night Live, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Sin, SNL, SNL Alumni, Street Culture, Subjective, The Eighties, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, United States, Vaginas, Whiteness
Preview of Bill Duke’s “Dark Girls,” A Documentary About Dark Skin Prejudice and How It Affects Dark-Skinned Black Women
• May 26, 2011 • 17 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Documentaries, Documentary, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Public Television, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: "Dark Girls", African American culture, African Americans, Alice Walker, Attractiveness, Bill Duke, Black Black Man, Black Black Woman, Black People, Black Women, Bradinn French, D. Channsin Berry, Documentary, HBO, Human skin color, Kanazawa, Love, Physical attractiveness, Psychology Today, Satoshi Kanazawa, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Short Film, Skillet Blond, Sundance, Women
Satoshi Kanazawa May Lose His Job Over His “Psychology Today” Article That ‘Black Women Are Less Attractive’ Than Other Women (And He Should)
• May 26, 2011 • 3 CommentsPosted in Aborigines/Blacks, African American History, Africans, American History, Black Britons/British Caribbean, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Education, European History, Haitians/Francophone Caribbean, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "High Noon", "Shanghai Noon", "The Social Perception of Skin Color in Japan", African American Women, African Americans, Akiba Solomon, Apology, Ayn Rand, Black Women, Chon Wang, Color, Estrogen Levels, Ethnocentrism, Evolutionary Psychology, Gary Cooper, Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Honorary White, Japan, Japanese, London School of Economics, Love, LSE, LSE Students' Union, Mikhail Lyubansky, Psychology Today, Race, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, Satoshi Kanazawa, Science Fiction, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Black Women, Sister Resistor, St. Ives, Stanford University, Testosterone Levels, The Great Pacific War, Unilever, United States, Whiteness, William Shockley, Xenophobia
Justice At Last For Recy Taylor? (w/Updates)
• March 21, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Books, Civil Rights/Human Rights, Class, Domestic Terrorism, Education, Health, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Recy Taylor, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "At the Dark at the End of the Street", Abbeville Alabama, African American, African Americans, Alabama, Apology, Black Women, Blacks, Danielle McGuire, Grand Jury, Henry County, Jim Crow laws, Journal of American History, Lynching, Marriage, Montgomery Bus Boycott, PTSD, Racism, Rape, Recy Taylor, Rep. Dexter Grimsley, Robert Corbitt, Rosa Parks, The Civil Rights Movement, The Forties, The South, The Women's Movement, United States, White Supremacy
Three Little Sistas Called Watoto From The Nile Put Lil’ Wayne on Blast
• March 14, 2011 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Education, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Music Videos, People of Color, Public Intellectualism, Sexuality, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Black Girls, Black Woman Hating, Black Women, Blacks, Children, Children's Records, Children's Songs, Disrespect, Drugs, Erykah Badu, Gender, Gender Roles, Generations, Growing Up, Hip Hop Culture, Hip Hop Music, iTunes, Jay Z, Kids' Records, LilWayne, Love, Marriage, Misogyny, Nile, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Steve Harvey, The Eighties, The Seventies, United States, YouTube
Comedian Joan Rivers Calls The First Lady “Blackie O”
• January 25, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, Barack and Michelle Obama, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Fashion, Love, Michelle Obama, Race, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "Joan and Melissa Know Best", African Americans, Barack Obama, Black Women, Blacks, Executive Mansion, Faux Noise, FLOTUS, Fox News Channel, Howard Stern, Huffington Post, Iman, Insult, Joan Rivers, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama Watch, Mrs. O, Oscar de la Renta, POTUS, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racial Slur, Robin Quivers, Sarah Palin, Schwartze, Second Thoughts, Slur, The First Lady, The President, The White House, United States, White House, Womanist Musings
DADT is Dead…Or Is It?
• December 19, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American Foreign Policy, American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Democrats, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, National Issues, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, Religion, Sexuality, SGI Nichiren Buddhism, The Rest of the World, Womanism, Women
Tags: AmericaBlog, DADT, Daily Kos, Daniel Choi, Democrats, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Veterans, Homophobia, Infantry, Joe Sudbay, John Aravosis, John McCain, Justice, Leonard Matlovich, LGBT, Lt. Dan Choi, Moral Imperative, Pacifism, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Samurai, Saving Face, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, SLDN, United States armed forces, White House
Mitrice Richardson: Okay, So Explain It to Me Again; Why Did The L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies Need Her Skull So Badly That They Got “Authorization” to Move Her Body?
• October 26, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Accidental Death/Death by Misadventure, African American History, Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Cultural History, Dr. Ronda Hampton, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Latice Sutton, Mental Health/Psychology, Mitrice Richardson, Murder/Manslaughter, Police Misconduct/Killings, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: Innocence, Body, L.A. County Coroner's Office, Law, Mitrice Richardson, Malibu, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Latice Sutton, Michael Richardson, Malibu CA, Guilty, Anne Soble, "The Malibu Surfside News", Sheriff Lee Baca, Death by Cops, Malibu Agoura-Lost Hills Sheriff's Department, Sheriff's Deputies, Steve Whitmore, L.A. County, Sheriff, NCIS, Coroner, Las Vegas Nevada, Lt. Mike Rosson, Assistant Chief Ed Winter, Decomposition, Skeleton, Haste, Guilt, Agoura Hills California, Los Angeles County California, Death by Cop, Lee Baca
Well, There’s WiFi on the Eighth Floor Tonight
• October 16, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Class, Education, Fiction Writing, Holidays, Joblessness, The Economy, Who I Am, Wisconsin, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Apple, Black Women, Blacks, Boohooing, Business, Cali, California, Cisco Systems, EBT, EBT Card, Joni Mitchell, Lake Mendota, Life Goes On, Madison Metro, Madison WI, Michelangelo's Coffeehouse, People, Retraining, Self-Respect, State Street, The Bay Area, The Big One, The Eighth Floor, The Eighties, The Great American Black Woman's Novel, The Madison Children's Museum, The Yellow Brick Road, Unemployed, Unemployment Insurance, United States, Web Design, Wi-Fi, Wisconsin, YWCA, YWCA Madison
Playwright Ntozake Shange Talks about Tyler Perry and “For Colored Girls”
• October 12, 2010 • 5 CommentsPosted in Acting, African American History, Big Beautiful Women, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Love, Memoir, Murder/Manslaughter, Ntozake Shange, Race, Rape/Sex Crimes, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stroke, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Anika Noni Rose, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black Women, Blacks, Brooklyn, Drama, Growing Up, Harriette Cole, Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Love, Marriage, New York, Novelist, Ntozake Shange, Playwright, Poet, Racism, Sex, Sexism, Sexism in the African American Community, The Root, The Seventies, The Washington Post, Tyler Perry, United States, Video
The “For Colored Girls” Trailer From Tyler Perry: It May Have You Wishing for a Revival of the Broadway Play
• September 15, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Acting, African American History, Black People, Books, Class, Cultural History, Domestic Violence, Drama, Education, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Race, Sexuality, Spirituality, Womanism, Women
Tags: "For Colored Girls, "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuff", "Precious", Art, Depressing, Depression, Film, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Frame of Mind, Growing Up, Janet Jackson, Juanita, Ladies in Colors, Live, Love, Marriage, Motherhood, Movies, Murder, Ntozake Shange, Palo Alto, Racism, Rape, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Sex, Suicide, The Image, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Tyler Perry, What About Our Daughters?, Whoopi Goldberg
The Ancestors Claim Singer/Actress/Songwriter Abbey Lincoln, 80
• August 15, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in Abbey Lincoln, Acting, African American History, American History, Arts, Black People, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Drama, Film, Health, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, Music, Public Intellectualism, Race, Sexuality, Womanism
Tags: "Mo Better Blues", "Nothing But a Man, "The Freedom Suite", Abbey Lincoln, Acting, Activism, Actress, Africa, African Americans, Anna Marie Wooldridge, Billie Holiday, Black Nationalist, Black Women, Blacks, Braided Hair, Chicago IL, Corn Rows, Divorce, Drama, Glamour, Ivan Dixon, Jazz, Jazz Singer, Kinky Hair, Love, Marriage, Max Roach, Michael Jackson, Natural Hair, Racism, Sidney Poitier, Songwriter, Spike Lee, The 2000s, The Eighties, The Nineties, The Sixties, Thelonious Monk, Vitiligo
What Else Andrew Breitbart Doesn’t Know About Shirley Sherrod? He Doesn’t Know $%*@! About the Black Church
• July 22, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American Politics, Chicanos/Latinos, Class, Cultural History, Daily AM/PM Talk Shows, Democrats in Name Only, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Keith Olbermann, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Spirituality, Teabagging Party, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Womanism, Women
Tags: ABC News, African Americans, AME, Andrew Breitbart, Audience, Baptist, Black Women, Call and Response, Charles Sherrod, COGIC, Hate, Holiness, Latinos, Lies, Lying, Methodist, President Barack Obama, Race Hate, Racism, Reverend Charles Sherrod, Selma Voting Rights Movement, Shirley Sherrod, SNCC, Spiritual Church of New Orleans, The Albany Movement, The Black Church, The Deity, The Tea Party, The Tea Party Movement, The View, Tim Wise
The Frame Up of Shirley Sherrod
• July 20, 2010 • 1 CommentPosted in African American History, American History, American Politics, Black People, Class, Cultural History, Democrats in Name Only, Hate Crimes, Journalism and Ethics, Mental Health/Psychology, Obama Administration, Race, Teabagging Party, Television, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Tea Party Movement, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Americans, Andrew Breitbart, Black Women, Blacks, Faux News, Fear, Fear Pimps, Fox News, Georgia, Half-Truths, Hate Speech, Lies, Mark Williams, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, President Barack Obama, Race Baiting, Racism, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Set Up, Tea Party, The Cult of White Victimhood, The Department of Agriculture, The Economy, The Eighties, The Great Recession, The New Black Panther Party, The Obama Administration, The Tea Party Movement, The White House, Tim Wise, Tom Vilsack, Whites
Mother’s Day Food for Thought: Renee Martin of Womanist Musings, “What I am Not Teaching My Children”
• May 8, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Black People, Class, Education, Love, Mental Health/Psychology, People of Color, Race, Renee Martin, Spirituality, Womanism, Women
Tags: African Canadian, Black Mothers, Black Woman, Black Women, Blacks, Canada, Canadian, Growing Up, Love, Motherhood, Niagara Falls, Racism, Renee Martin, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, U.S.-Canada Border, Womanism, Womanist Musings
Meet Betty Dukes, The Black Woman Who Helped Launch the Class Action Discrimination Suit Against Wal-Mart
• May 2, 2010 • 2 CommentsPosted in African American History, American History, Betty Dukes, Black People, Class, Gentrification, Love, Protestant Denominations, Race, Religion, Spirituality, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Womanism, Women
Tags: "Betty versus Goliath", African Americans, American History, Bastion of White Privilege, Bay Area, Betty Dukes, Black Woman, Blacks, Brad Seligman, California, Class Action Suit, David versus Goliath, Divorced, Dukes v. Wal-Mart, East Bay, Federal Court of Appeals, Goliath, Greeter, Heather Ellis, Impact Fund, Legal, Legal Non-Profit Organization, Litigation, Manager, Married, Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year, Pittsburg CA, Racism, San Francisco Bay Area, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Single, Single Black Woman, Small Business, The American Dream, The Middle Class, The Supreme Court, The U.S. Chambers of Commerce, Wal-Mart, Woman Minister, Woman Preacher, Women
Until May 1, Watch the Documentary “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun”
• April 24, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in African American History, American History, Black People, Books, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Cultural History, Documentary, Film, Race, Sexuality, Womanism, Women, Zora Neale Hurston
Tags: African Americans, Anthropologist, Biography, Black Woman, Blacks, California, Common Sense, Cultural History, Documentary, Folklorist, Growing Up, Jump at the Sun", Literature, Novelist, Scholar, Self Image, Self-Respect, Self-Worth, Single Black Woman, Southern, Womanist, Writer, Zora Neale Hurston
Queen-Sized Model in Banned Lane Bryant Ad: ABC Can’t Handle the Truth
• April 23, 2010 • Comments OffPosted in Ashley Graham, Big Beautiful Women, Celebrities/Royals, Class, Commercials, Cultural History, Fashion, Health, Love, Sexuality, Television, The Mainstream Media (MSM), Weight Gain/Lack/Loss, Womanism, Women
Tags: "American Idol", "The New York Post", ABC, Advertisement, Ashley Graham, Banned, BBW, Big Beautiful Women, Commercials, Fifteen Minutes, Fox, Jiggle, Lane Bryant, Marilyn Monroe, Marketing, Mo'Nique, Plus Size Women, Queen Latifah, Queen Size Women, Rupert Murdoch, Self-Acceptance, Self-Respect, Size 14, Size 16, Viral, Viral Commercials
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