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Wed, 15 May 2013 02:00:36 -0400

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"Mountain milestone: Henderson becomes first black woman to earn tenure at MC Melanie Tucker|..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:48:24 -0400

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Mountain milestone: Henderson becomes first black woman to earn tenure at MC

Melanie Tucker| (melt@thedailytimes.com)

After moving to Maryville six years ago from St. Louis to teach political science, Dr. Frances Henderson has landed herself in the record books as the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Maryville College.

Henderson was awarded tenure recently at the college and it will take effect in August. College officials believe Dr. John Perry was probably the first African-American professor who received tenure at MC. He was hired in 1985 to teach in the college’s physical education/health/recreation department. He was tenured in 1989 and was promoted to associate professor in 1996. He retired in 2003. Currently, Henderson is the only African-American professor on the faculty. There are some on staff.

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- http://www.thedailytimes.com/Blount_Life/story/Mountain-milestone-Henderson-becomes-first-black-woman-to-earn-tenure-at-MC-id-036366

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Fri, 03 May 2013 13:26:24 -0400

Well.

Doesn’t matter how many times this has shown up in your...

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:31:23 -0400

Doesn’t matter how many times this has shown up in your timeline … it would be criminal for me to not post this.

““Are we a lost generation of our people?

Add us to equations but they’ll never make us equal.
She who writes the movie owns the script and the sequel.
So why ain’t the stealing of my rights made illegal?
They keep us underground working hard for the greedy,
But when it’s time pay they turn around and call us needy.
My crown too heavy like the Queen Nefertiti
Gimme back my pyramid, I’m trying to free Kansas City.

Mixing masterminds like your name Bernie Grundman.
Well I’m gonna keep leading like a young Harriet Tubman
You can take my wings but I’m still goin’ fly
And even when you edit me the booty don’t lie
Yeah, keep singing and I’mma keep writing songs
I’m tired of Marvin asking me, “What’s Going On?
March to the streets ‘cuz I’m willing and I’m able
Categorize me, I defy every label
And while you’re selling dope, we’re gonna keep selling hope
We rising up now, you gotta deal you gotta cope
Will you be electric sheep?
Electric ladies, will you sleep?
Or will you preach?”

Janelle Monae feat Erykah Badu Q.U.E.E.N

“Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:45:25 -0400

“Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a feature-length documentary that focuses on black women’s marginalization between the Black Power and Feminist movements, as well as the resulting political mobilization of women of color.

A large segment of this film focuses on former black women activists’ experiences with racism in the Feminist movement, particularly their struggles dealing with lack of empathy and understanding with white feminists on issues that concern women of color. It also includes a wide range of archival footage from the 1960s and 70s, which displays the blatant differences in socioeconomic status and political concerns between white feminists and feminists of color.

Reflections Unheard serves as evidence that the issues presented in The Feminist Wire’s Race and Feminisms forum have been prevalent for years and that there is still much progress to be made.”

“Ruth A. Lucas, the first African American woman in the...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:29:01 -0400

“Ruth A. Lucas, the first African American woman in the Air Force to be promoted to the rank of colonel and who at the time of her retirement was the highest-ranking African American woman in the Air Force, died March 23 at her home in Washington. She was 92.

Col. Lucas enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in 1942 and was one the first black women to attend what is now the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk. She held a variety of positions, mainly in research and education, before being named a colonel in 1968.

At the time of her promotion, Col. Lucas was a general education and counseling services assistant in the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for education at the Pentagon. She created, organized and implemented special literacy programs aimed to increase the education levels of service personnel.

“Most people don’t realize that among all the servicemen who enter the military annually, about 45,000 of them read below the fifth-grade level, and more than 30 percent of these men are black,” she said in a 1969 interview with Ebony Magazine. “Right now if I have any aim, it’s just to reach these men, to interest them in education and to motivate them to continue on.”

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Even before you notice the smooth, powerful swing that has...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:18:37 -0400

Even before you notice the smooth, powerful swing that has helped propel her to the brink of stardom at only 17, you see something else that defines Ginger Howard and her precocious golf game…the smile. It lights up her face, as she talks about her life and dreams.

Ginger has become a member of the LPGA at the right age of 17, the youngest ever. There’s a good chance you haven’t heard much if anything about Howard yet, but all that could change very soon. If things go they way they’ve been heading, we may soon become well-acquainted with the million-dollar smile and formidable style that has been lighting up the ranks.

And the story could ultimately entwine a Williams Sisters tennis twist, because waiting in the wings is 16-year-old sister Robbi, a prodigy in her own right.

Ginger follows other notable black golfers such as, tennis great Althea Gibson was the first black female to play on tour. Gibson broke through in 1963 and played in 171 tournaments until 1971. From 1967-80, Renee Powell also held an LPGA Tour card. More recently, LaRee Pearl Sugg played full-time in 1995, ’96, 2000 and ’01. Also, Andia Winslow missed the cut in her one event in 2006. (NFL Hall of Famer, Kellen Winslow, Sr., is her uncle.)

I get a feeling we will be seeing and hearing a lot from these talented sisters. Go girls!

Didn’t we tell you Black girls do everything?

"I dare not let media propaganda sap my intelligence and trick me into generalizing that all Black..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:06 -0400

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I dare not let media propaganda sap my intelligence and trick me into generalizing that all Black men totally disregard violence against women or have a problem with holding one another accountable when it comes to respecting women. I believe wholeheartedly that there are many more upstanding, righteous Brothas who live by a code of honor than those who have allowed their morals to become so irreversibly tainted that they believe acts of violence whether in speech or physical act are no big deal. I trust that good, honorable character is still a bold trait among Black men just as it was in my great-grandfather’s day and his father’s day before him.

What I do question, however, is the full use of the Black man’s voice and character in America. There’s more power there than you give yourselves credit for, more impact there than it seems you remember of your bold, regal history. Don’t forget who you are and what you love. Yes, women are doing a whole lot for themselves these days but we appreciate your support more than you know.

Please, from a Sista to her Brothas, her future husband, her future son(s)… Don’t get lost in the crowd.

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- The Appeal to Black Men: Don’t Get Lost in the Crowd When Fighting Rape Culture, LaTruly

Sweetest thing I’ve ever known …. Lauryn Hill -...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:11:51 -0400

Sweetest thing I’ve ever known ….

Lauryn Hill - Sweetest Thing #MondayMusic

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"Um, Talib (if by chance you are listening), your conduct here is actually a primer in “How Not To Be..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:40:58 -0400

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Um, Talib (if by chance you are listening), your conduct here is actually a primer in “How Not To Be An Ally.”What do you think?

I know you may stop listening at this point since you probably perceive my tone not to be loving, but if you do continue to read, here are a few pointers on how to be a real male ally in hip-hop:
1.) Let the women have the mic. Rick Ross disrespected all women, and particularly Black and Brown women, in this situation. Black and Brown women have the right to command the space, to “get on the mic” if you will, and speak our peace, without you yanking it back cuz you don’t like what we’re spitting. In other words, if you should find yourself yelling at one of the injured parties, just know that something has gone woefully awry. Check it before you wreck it, ya heard?
2.) Don’t mansplain. Telling Rosa Clemente that the “smarter move” is to embrace Rick Ross with love assumes that Black women’s contribution to the conversation is emotional, not logical. But I hope it is abundantly clear that you were the one all in your feelings in that convo. We’ve been conditioned not to see it when men get defensive and emotional, cuz y’all usually signal that by telling women that we’re the ones who aren’t being “smart” or “logical.” But I call bullshit for bullshit. Despite what you said to dream hampton on Twitter, “your outrage clouded” your judgment.
3.) Don’t invoke the tone argument. You expected Rosa to listen to you, even though your tone wasn’t loving. You were offended, and you felt the right to communicate that offense and be heard. Why not Black women? If someone is standing on my fucking foot, I don’t have to ask them nicely to move. Like the Queen (Latifah, that is) said 20 years ago, “a man don’t love ya, if he hits ya,” or rapes ya, or raps about raping ya. To ask me to love somebody who ain’t even remotely interested in trying to love me back, either means you think Black women are Jesus or fools. To demand more love when all Black women do is give love is at best woeful misrecognition and worst an egregious show of male arrogance.
4.) Interrogate your privilege. You may be a progressive man in hip-hop, but you are still a man who moves through the world with male privilege. And what you did in that conversation and the subsequent conversation on Twitter was communicate from the space of that male privilege. You told Rosa that she didn’t get to determine who was in and out of hip-hop, though she has paid her dues in the culture just like you. And then you told her who was in. Period. The end. That’s not being an ally. That’s being minister of information for the Ol Boys’ Club.
5.) Recognize that you don’t get to tell us how to be our ally; we get to tell you. And if the fact that you don’t have the power to determine the bounds of your allyship make you uncomfortable, then you have found the primary place of your problem. We get to determine who our allies are. Not you. Your primary job as an ally is to listen, and then be a megaphone, not a microphone. Your job is to amplify what we’re saying so other folks can hear it, and have our back if something pops off. If the folks you are attempting to help or be in alliance with tell you that they are feeling unsupported, then that might mean there is a problem with the support you are offering rather than a problem with the demands they are making. (For a far better explication of this principle, check out this good work from our friends over at Shakesville.)

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- Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become A Better Ally To Women in Hip-Hop, by Crunktastic

Bow Down.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:01:00 -0400

Bow Down.

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"… Macc E-Money references Drake’s “Young East African Girl” lyric, presenting black beauty in a..."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:54:00 -0400

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… Macc E-Money references Drake’s “Young East African Girl” lyric, presenting black beauty in a limited way and privileging East Africans over other Africans while passing it off as an appreciation of African beauty.

The lines between acceptance, fetishism and exoticism are blurry. It would seem that the primary distinction between black (North American) men, East African men and white men exoticizing East African Girls is that for many white men and even some East African men, the exoticism is firmly rooted in a belief in the racial categories—a belief that race is biological when it is in fact social, and a fetishization and romanticism of our Arab World ties and colonial past. For a lot of black men like Drake, it’s way less insidious. At best, it’s a misguided reinscription of the white standard of beauty through acceptably black women. At worst it’s intra-racial discrimination. Usually, it’s a combination of all these things but if representing, hyping and esteeming women with acceptable blackness is good for all girls—Trickle Down Acceptability, if you will— then we’d probably live in a post-racial world where fairies and dragons and Tupac populated the earth. Sadly, we live in a racist, sexist world where black men and white people can hurt black women in the same ways. Black women hurt black women, too, but differently: we don’t have each other’s back. Those that see themselves represented in the lyrics and the videos, accept it without questioning it. And those who lament the overrepresentation of East African Girls, frequently fail to realize that the “Young East African Girl(s)” of Drake’s lyrics are like all women of color; they are objectified and male-gazed upon in hip-hop. These women are mythic, “exotic” generalized by rappers as the ambASSadors of their ethnicity or nationality. We are an idea rooted in a scant and skewed example— a token— from Drake’s own lived experience, mixed in with a little bit of mainstream imagery and a history that isn’t even our own.

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- Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls Safy-Hallan Farah

King’s Queens.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:18:35 -0400

King’s Queens.

UNapproachable Black Chicks

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"Mountain milestone: Henderson becomes first black woman to earn tenure at MC Melanie Tucker|..."

Well.

Doesn’t matter how many times this has shown up in your...

“Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights is a...

“Ruth A. Lucas, the first African American woman in the...

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Even before you notice the smooth, powerful swing that has...

"I dare not let media propaganda sap my intelligence and trick me into generalizing that all Black..."

The Appeal to Black Men: Don’t Get Lost in the Crowd When Fighting Rape Culture, LaTruly

Sweetest thing I’ve ever known …. Lauryn Hill -...

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"Um, Talib (if by chance you are listening), your conduct here is actually a primer in “How Not To Be..."

Five Ways Talib Kweli Can Become A Better Ally To Women in Hip-Hop, by Crunktastic

Bow Down.

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"… Macc E-Money references Drake’s “Young East African Girl” lyric, presenting black beauty in a..."

Poetic Justice: Drake and East African Girls Safy-Hallan Farah

King’s Queens.