2014 in review


The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,600 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many …

COMING SOON: PNR Review of Cara Hoffman’s ‘So Much Pretty’ @ The Hollins Critic Literary Journal


The Dilemma of the Future Educator: Moving Beyond the Crack Cocaine Era


  In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we …

The Problem With Secondary Sources: Melton McLaurin and Celia A Slave: A True Story


The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, and to be in solidarity with those who suffer. -Cornel West One can lie outright about the past. Or one can omit facts which might lead to unacceptable conclusions. -Harold Zinn

Journal Readings in African American Studies


Who’s Afraid of James Baldwin? (No Name In The Street)


In No Name In The Streets Baldwin attempts to bear witness to the tumultuous and decadent era of the Civil Rights Movement. Baldwin discusses his whereabouts during the murders of 3 of the movement's most influential titanic figures - Malcolm, Medgar, and Martin; he discusses his involvement; philosophizes the meaning of the movement -and its key players, …