Somehow, some way, I've made it to 17 years on here. Barely. As post tallies from the last several--7 especially--years have demonstrate...

Charles Lilly Painting, courtesy of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library  Thanks to  Monaga ...

Curator and MC, Rey Andújar Two Wednesday ago, on February 15th, back I caught an evening of the Guild Complex 's "Palabra Pu...

Last night and today, more snow, more cold, more winter here in Chicago . The quarter has only a month or so to go; so too, and sooner, I h...

Surfacing finally and temporarily, from the bogs or thickets or trenches, or whatever is lined with pages and pages of prose! Today was the...

Gates talks with Brazilian rapper, MV Bill Henry Louis Gates Jr. 's 4-part PBS series Black in Latin America , which ran for each...

One of these days, I swear, C and I are going to experience Carnaval (or Carnival) in Dominican Republic, Brazil, Trinidad , Panama, France,...

On the web, it's a truism that one thing leads to another...and so, somehow or other, I ended up at the Harvard Crimson website, and ca...

Today are the Ides of March . So what, you say?  Take heed, take heed ... +++ Over the weekend Reggie H. had sent a note around, via ...

I'm glad that the last two holdouts in the Democratic caucus, Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Blanche Lambert Lincoln (D-AR), have d...

Nearly a week has elapsed, but this past Monday was E-Day , as in End of Quarter Day! Tonight I'm sitting at my computer, nursing a che...