If you haven’t read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah, I highly recommend it. The story crosses international boundaries and thus speaks to issues of identity, class, home, education, and the contemporary world. One of the novel’s central character’s, Ifemelu, keeps a blog once she’s in the United States and creates another one when she returnsContinue reading “Models Monday: Intertextuality”
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WTF is School “Work” These Days
I’m currently re-reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 work Strength to Love. In the introduction, he notes his hesitance in publishing this work because the “essays” are actually “sermons” and thus meant for a present, listening audience. This is important to keep in mind in reading this passage about the church that I find quiteContinue reading “WTF is School “Work” These Days”
Models Monday: Making a Living
The Labor Day Edition 2014.
Models Monday: Hands Up…Don’t Shoot…Solidarity
On the Morehouse campus, students from Clark-Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College–collectively representing the Atlanta University Center (AUC)–showed solidarity with citizens/students across the country who walked out of classrooms at 1 p.m. to commemorate the day Michael Brown would never be able to walk into a classroom as he was being lowered into hisContinue reading “Models Monday: Hands Up…Don’t Shoot…Solidarity”
No New Models Here…
Michael Brown’s body was not immediately covered and was recorded on video by bystanders. JAMES CLAY, VIA NEWS2SHARE The spectacle of the dangling corpse, the charred remains of the body, and the stern signs of warning invariably attracted spectators. Local authorities routinely allowed bodies to remain on display for at least several hours and sometimesContinue reading “No New Models Here…”
Last words…
If you have a chance, you should check out Journalist Shirin Barghi twitter drawings featuring the last words spoken by black boys/men killed by police or vigilantes: If you have a chance, you should check out Journalist Shirin Barghi twitter drawings featuring the last words spoken by black boys/men killed by police or vigilantes:
Six Shots Later…
Another shameful outcome of this country’s “brutal imagination.”
Models Monday: The Kiss
It seems that folk no longer read comedian and activist Dick Gregory’s 1964 autobiography Nigger—actually, I don’t remember the Malcolm X t-shirt wearing, Public Enemy listening generation of mine discussing the work either. The 1990s political climate may have informed my decision to seek out this book. The back cover told a profoundly moving storyContinue reading “Models Monday: The Kiss”
R.I.P. Michael Brown (“Be Free,” J. Cole)
Models Monday: First Day of First Grade
Most Georgia schools have started today. My son started first grade. His teacher seems like a warm person. My son looked like he was alright when I left; no crying or clinging. The worst thing that happened today actually began when he first enrolled and I saw the required uniform. Here he is in justContinue reading “Models Monday: First Day of First Grade”
In Reverie Blog 