All JANUARY POSTS (37)

Sandra Laing: Born Black with White Parents

January 30, 2009 at 1:38 AM

Sandra Laing's story has been made into a film called Skin starring Sophie Okonedo [Secret Life of Bees, Hotel Rwanda]. But I'm not convinced.

Limbaugh's Plea for Failure

January 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM

Why the Republican mojo? Because the bill might suggest the fall of the Private Sector kingdom and your highness, Limbaugh, might experience an economic beheading.

Joaquin Phoenix Rap Career Rumored to be Bull

January 28, 2009 at 5:11 PM

Why do some whites continue to think mocking blackness is a way to get attention?

Sundance loves Chris Rock's Good Hair

January 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM

Lee Daniels and Push take Sundance

January 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM

The film is based on Sapphire's 1996 novel Push and it has earned both Sundance's top-tier Grand Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award.

Malia and Sasha and the Dolls in their Honor

January 23, 2009 at 9:15 AM

Every Sarah, Kendra and Bobby, too, will be directing their parents through wind and rain to get their hands on these beauts.

Oscar Nominations - Who Will Win

January 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM

Rourke captured the over-the-hill, drugged-out, tabloid wrestler with just the right amount of heart and ugly.

Inauguration Night: From Joy to Violence

January 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Inauguration Madness - It's All Over

January 20, 2009 at 6:39 PM

Most of the millions [some say easily four million] were meandering about for the most the morning trying to figure out an "in" to the Mall. And it was cold.

Inauguration Madness - The Arrival

January 20, 2009 at 6:06 AM

From people selling Obama posters to Obama-scented something [I didn't inquire about that one], there's no way to escape the addictive albeit maddening euphoria.

Has King's Dream Come to Fruition?

January 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM

The majority of Whites don't believe the racial Kumbaya-hype, and most Blacks do.

American History: What do we throw away, What do we keep?

January 16, 2009 at 12:57 PM

Can you wipe away the poverty of a people without wiping away the music and culture that's forged from such conditions?

Interracial Anxiety - Do You Have It?

January 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM

I've heard it all from White Americans. From being told I look like Will Smith to one of my grad school advisers randomly asking if my father was "in the picture".