Keep Shining...

much love to my hermano, Milt, for sharing this with me...love this track to death.

theme song for my soul.

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl...

So proud of this crew and excited about this project! I started supporting and watching ABG in early July, and today just saw that they raised $20,000 over their goal!! Really hoping this show makes it to a broader audience!

Check out the kickstarter video here and how the series began:


My 2 favorite episodes (so far...)
The Icebreaker


The Dance


http://awkwardblackgirl.com/

Black Best Friend.

i love this video. i can relate to not always meeting the "black friend" expectations,"gurrrrl...".

Black Best Friend with Casey Wilson from Casey Wilson

i'm back here.

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Louder than a Bomb.

I saw "Louder than a Bomb" -this week with a friend and one of my students...it was crazy powerful, and really impacted me.

One of the most powerful pieces (out of many) was Lamar's piece, "...The Shooter." This clip is not from the documentary, but I was so glad that I still found it online...so good.


I really love all the students they featured in this film...go see it! for real.
LOUDER THAN A BOMB trailer:

in the student newspaper this week...

So I was interviewed this week by a student regarding the Kobe Bryant incident:

http://www.thefalcononline.com/article.php?id=7621

Something else I spoke to the reporter about was how interesting it is that we have a basketball player who gets fined $100,000 for using the "F-word" toward a referee during a basketball game...yet the Westboro Baptist Church is protected when they use slurs during military funerals. With their signs that read, "God Hates F---" and their digusting protests during the funerals for the brave, young people who sacrificed their lives for our country, the Supreme Court, "our" Supreme Court does not hold them accountable for their hate...for their words:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/03/25/velez.mitchell.westboro/index.html


This world is funny...and by "funny" I mean stupid.

explain yourself.

The only thing worse than being singled out, questioned and treated like a suspect, is when I have to watch it happen to the young students I work with.

That was my night tonight...