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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

back to basics

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I feel like I need a "reboot". I plan to work with Hamza Yusuf's booklet Agenda To Change Our Condition and see how it goes. ...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

quien no tiene de congo (tiene de carabali)

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"Quien no tiene de congo (tiene de Carabali)" La Habana, 2003, Black and White Photograph, 24x30. Umi Vaughan
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shades of race in contemporary cuba

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I've mentioned Umi before but after I found this piece and some of his photos online I thought it would be nice to revisit his work. As...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

"do your math..." (part two)

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There is within the spiritual universe of Islam a dimension which may be called " Abrahamic Pythagoreanism " or a way of seeing nu...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

"do your math..."

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Recently I've been thinking in general terms about different kinds of mathematics: partly with the hopes of developing an innovative cur...

two calls for pan-africanism from the muslim world

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Pambazuka News: Obama: US president or world president? by Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem Afriquenligne: Kadhafi reaffirms necessity of federal gove...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

israel's openly secret nukes

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In These Tiems: Israel’s Openly Secret Nukes by Salim Muwakkil As usual, Salim Muwakkil is on target (so to speak). It just makes me wonder...

dhikr and my "inner taliban"

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So I "went to dhikr" yesterday. I use quotes because in reality dhikr should be part of the basic punctuation of Muslim life so th...

obama and father's day

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This past Sunday, Obama gave a sermon on fatherhood at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. And can I say how deep it is to see a candida...

mark gonzalez - audio intefadeh

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The clip from Audio Intefadeh seems to suggest Mark Gonzalez but that's not totally clear to me. In any case, he is a brilliant spoken w...
Monday, June 16, 2008

junot diaz

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The Ghetto nerd came to America at age 6 with his impoverished Dominican family, like so many others before them, yearning to taste the “Ame...
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the dark knight: the rise of "the real" obama

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Goatmilk: THE DARK KNIGHT: The Rise of “The Real” Obama

an open letter to certain white women who are threatening to withhold support from obama in november

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This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism , and supposedly because of their commitment t...
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goatmilk: an interview with noam chomsky by wajahat ali

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CHOMSKY SPEAKS: An Interview with Noam Chomsky by Wajahat Ali on Vietnam, Iraq, the War on Terror and the limits of dissent.

goatmilk: rumi and sufism

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I've linked to Wajahat Ali's blog before but I haven't checked him out in a while. It turns out I've missed a lot of good st...

the writings of yusef lateef

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Blatantly stolen from Marc Manley over at The Manrilla Blog: "From a small, self-published book entitled Something Else, jazz legend Y...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

the roots: the spark

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I actually wanted to include a clip of this song back when I wrote the post: o son of being / the spark but did not find one until now. I...
Monday, June 09, 2008

political bits

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1. I really like this image but was a bit surprised by how the mainstream networks were covering it. They were like "what is this myste...
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Friday, June 06, 2008

rise of the latin africans

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hat tip to Tariq Nelson: The Newsweek article, Rise Of The Latin Africans: A new black-power movement in Central and South America gives a ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

more felipe luciano

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We've posted some of Felipe Luciano's poetry before. Here is a second helping.
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