Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008	One reason I won't vote Democrat in 2008 (voting Green instead)
Politics may make "strange bedfellows," as the saying goes, but there have to be limits, and every now and then I reach one of mine. In this case, for me, it's around the 2008 U.S. presidential election. As Peter Finch's...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Aug 26, 2008	Greens' Rosa Clemente on WAMU.org Radio, 26 Aug
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney's running mate Rosa Clemente did a very informative interview earlier today with Kojo Nnamdi of WAMU-fm (part of American University). Great interview, Rosa. You can hear it online here. It seemed a bit strange...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Mar 23, 2008	Washington's Slavery Emancipation, April 1862
Spring in Washington means a lot more than cherry blossoms. Throughout April Washington, DC -- or at least some of us -- will recognise the 146th anniversary of the abolition of Black enslavement in the District of Columbia which took...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Feb 4, 2008	The international conversations Black America's not having: Reading Yvonne Bynoe
Came across an interesting article from nearly a year ago: author Yvonne Bynoe's Black America After Jim Crow: Still Feels Like Segregation, published on AlterNet. (They have good stuff and deserve your consideration of $upport.) For decades I've been having...... [view]

Posted By:  MarianD Posted On:  Feb 29, 2008	Chocolate City, a film on Washington, DC and gentrification
In recognition of our colonised status, people around the world can help by taking a symbolic break from even uttering the words "Washington" and "Washington, DC." Leave our name out of conversation and put a blank space in print. Besides...... [view]