Feb
15
For Colored Girls has Moved
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May
12
the latest
4colored girls has been on hiatus but stay tuned for weekly posts. In the meantime, here's a few top stories in colored girl america:
- Florida mom Marissa Alexander has been sentenced to 20 yrs in prison for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband. Yes, the same Florida that let a man walk free (and with his gun) after shooting a teenage boy dead. That same Florida.
- Florida mom Marissa Alexander has been sentenced to 20 yrs in prison for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband. Yes, the same Florida that let a man walk free (and with his gun) after shooting a teenage boy dead. That same Florida.
Jan
5
11 in 11 (Watchlist for 2012)
2011 was a banner year for black women in art, culture, entertainment, and politics. Here are a few highlights I noted from the year + "colored girls" to watch in 2012:
1. My first shout-out is a two-fer. The beautiful and talented Sanaa Lathan returned to Broadway to star in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. At once sad and funny, Vera Stark offered a sharp critique of Hollywood's racial "shuffles" without being overly dogmatic about it.
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1. My first shout-out is a two-fer. The beautiful and talented Sanaa Lathan returned to Broadway to star in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. At once sad and funny, Vera Stark offered a sharp critique of Hollywood's racial "shuffles" without being overly dogmatic about it.
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Dec
13
Lost in Language and Sound by Ntozake Shange
Ntozake Shange, feminist author of the critically acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who’ve considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, as well as numerous poetry collections and novels (most recently the 600-page Some Sing, Some Cry, co-written with her sister Ifa Bayeza), gets personal, political and lyrical in her latest work, Lost in Language and Sound: A Memoir of Coming to the Arts.
Oct
13
Black Women Still in Defense of Ourselves
By Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
One of the lasting images of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas controversy was the photograph of the “Boxer rebellion,” the all-female Congressional delegation marching up the steps to the Senate to demand that it investigate credible claims of sexual harassment.
One of the lasting images of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas controversy was the photograph of the “Boxer rebellion,” the all-female Congressional delegation marching up the steps to the Senate to demand that it investigate credible claims of sexual harassment.
Oct
1
SlutTalk
Picking up the momentum of over 100 demonstrations worldwide, SlutWalk New York is set to take place in Union Square Park today. The first SlutWalk march occurred in Toronto after a police officer told a group of students if they didn't want to be sexually victimized, they shouldn't dress like "sluts." Kinda like the NYPD's advice to women residents in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn where a spate of sexual attacks have occurred since March.
Sep
22
Education, Not Incarceration
More than a century after Ida B Wells led the charge against lynching, professor and feminist activist Angela Davis, through the organization Critical Resistance and national and international speaking engagements, critiques the proliferation of the prison industrial complex and asks us to envision a world without prisons.
Aug
15
Gloria Steinem Had Strong Influence on Black Women
By Evelyn C. White | SF Gate
Tonight Home Box Office will air "Gloria: In Her Own Words" - a riveting documentary about the famed leader of the feminist movement. The masterful film augments "The Education of A Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem" by Carolyn Heilbrun, the first full-length biography of the activist/journalist who, in 1971, co-founded Ms. magazine.
Tonight Home Box Office will air "Gloria: In Her Own Words" - a riveting documentary about the famed leader of the feminist movement. The masterful film augments "The Education of A Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem" by Carolyn Heilbrun, the first full-length biography of the activist/journalist who, in 1971, co-founded Ms. magazine.
Aug
12
Why I'm Not Looking Forward to The Help
By Jennifer Williams | Ms. Blog
I picked up a copy of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel The Help at an airport bookstore. I figured the four-hour flight to Texas would be enough time to absorb 544 plot-driven pages, and reading the novel during one of my frequent trips south seemed appropriate. For some readers, The Help calls up memories of being nurtured and cared for by black women who might have been more like mothers to them than their own white birth mothers.
I picked up a copy of Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling novel The Help at an airport bookstore. I figured the four-hour flight to Texas would be enough time to absorb 544 plot-driven pages, and reading the novel during one of my frequent trips south seemed appropriate. For some readers, The Help calls up memories of being nurtured and cared for by black women who might have been more like mothers to them than their own white birth mothers.
Aug
10
Jezebels, Welfare Queens—And Now, Criminally Bad Black Moms
By Julianne Hing | Colorlines
The shocking Cobb County, Ga., prosecution of Raquel Nelson, who law enforcement blamed when her son was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver, has drawn national headlines and outrage. But criminal justice watchdogs and cultural critics point out that, while Nelson’s story is extreme, it’s not that unusual—and it’s the product of centuries worth of demonizing black women that has taken a new, insidious turn during the current recession.
The shocking Cobb County, Ga., prosecution of Raquel Nelson, who law enforcement blamed when her son was killed by a drunken hit-and-run driver, has drawn national headlines and outrage. But criminal justice watchdogs and cultural critics point out that, while Nelson’s story is extreme, it’s not that unusual—and it’s the product of centuries worth of demonizing black women that has taken a new, insidious turn during the current recession.
