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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

blackface, brownface, yellowface, arabface, jewface and purpleface

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Loonwatch: Blackface, Brownface, Yellowface, Arabface, Jewface, and Purpleface
Friday, April 13, 2012

"on a quiet day i can hear her breathing"

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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our ar...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

tedx ramallah - mark gonzalez: wage beauty

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Poet. Scholar. Lover of Life. Mark Gonzales is an HBO Def Poet with a Master's in Education, a Mexican and a Muslim, a Khalil Gibran mee...

sherman jackson on trayvon martin

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Huffington Post: Trayvon Martin: Between 'Whitening' and Bad Law
Saturday, March 24, 2012

ten muslim women every person should know

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Huffington Post: 10 Muslim Women Every Person Should Know
Thursday, March 22, 2012

the chronic-WHAT!-cles of calormen

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For a while now I've been thinking about getting back to writing (I haven't written a new poem in ages). More specifically, I'm ...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

black to the future: to baldly go

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For some interesting recent reflections from the blogosphere on the significance (and insignificance) of blackness in science fiction, espe...

syria and the vagaries of political violence

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Imam Zaid Shakir: Syria and the Vagaries of Political Violence

omar offendum - #syria

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on trayvon martin

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Pwrnsl: Did You Hear What They Said?: 100 years of Trayvon Martin NPR: Can I Just Tell You? Trayvon Martin was Afraid, Too by Michael Martin...

interview with abu sumayyah

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The Deen Show: Interview with Abu Sumayyah (Wesley Lebron), President of Latino Muslims of Chicago
Sunday, March 18, 2012

thoughts on amina filali

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As some of you may know, Amina Filali was a 16-year-old Moroccan girl who recently committed suicide with rat poison. She was raped at 15 bu...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

"my pride is racist people say, but no one minds st. patrick's day"

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I've been "celebrating" St. Patrick's Day by listening to this particular black alternative rock anthem to DuBoisian doubl...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

louis reyes rivera (1945-2012)

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IN MEMORIAM Louis Reyes Rivera 1945-2012 Poet, essayist, editor, teacher, radio host, and union organizer with the National Writer Union, UA...

beyond the crescent and the cross

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This seems like a positive project. For the original link, check here. Call for Participants: Beyond and Between the Crescent and the Cross ...

rick santorum relieved no one has asked him about interracial marriage yet

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The Onion: Rick Santorum Relieved No One Has Asked Him About Interracial Marriage Yet
Thursday, March 01, 2012

daily show: is blackface ever okay?

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This is actually a few years old but still timely given recent events. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Is Blackface Ev...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

billy crystal, blackness and the oscars

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I'm still trying to articulate for myself what I think about Billy Crystal's appearance in blackface at the Oscars. The term blackfa...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

santorum may just end up being his own "jeremiah wright"

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Here is a link to a clip of Santorum's original comments about Satan from 2008 at Ave Maria College....
Thursday, February 23, 2012

training afghani imams to end violence against women

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Training Afghani Imams to End Violence Against Women by Daisy Khan and Fazeela Siddiqui