January 2012
38 posts
“You’re living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
a time where...”
– Malcolm X (Debate at Oxford University, 1964)
“There had been scattered signs of law enforcement monitoring hip hop throughout...”
– Nelson George (The Plot Against Hip Hop)
“Thomas Jefferson, the slave-owning patriarch of American democracy, predicted...”
– Fox Butterfield (Epilogue, All God’s Children)
“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to...”
– Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Get a little status and they think you too regal
That’s the nature of...”
– Phonte
“Jim Crow laws also soon appeared, starting with the railroads. The Saluda...”
– Fox Butterfield
(lunch time reading) New Blog Post: Education vs... →
“By some measures, the freedmen made spectacular progress in South Carolina in...”
– Fox Butterfield (All God’s Children)
“It seems to be a law of nature that slavery is equally destructive to the master...”
– Charles Ball
New Blog Post: A Revolutionary Act →
WatchMen Ain’t Sh*t
“She would be my queen, I could be her king, together. She would make me cool,...”
– Lupe (The Coolest)
New Blog Post: Black Male Cool →
“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of...”
– A Girl You Should Date via @brainpicker (via bookshelfporn) 