African-American Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Conference
I had one of the best experiences of my life on April 25 when I attended the first conference sponsored […]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Follow-up to Boston’s Black on Black Crime
I wrote this sentence: Our Black newspaper could be owned, upon its owner’s death, by his white wife (who has […]
Singers Showcase at Berklee College of Music
Last night, it was my great pleasure to attend, at the behest of my hubby, the 25th Anniversary Singer’s Showcase […]
Fight back, go on record or just go – What ...
You lose your job. Actually, you didn’t lose your job, your job was taken. Lay-off, economy, recession, poor performance evaluation, […]
Wonderful world, wonderful people
What a wonderful world this is and what wonderful people are in it, these thoughts bounced through my brain as I dined at […]
Bleak Unemployment Statistic for Black men
“Nationally, less than 60 percent of black men age 20 and older were employed in February, the lowest share since the government began tracking such data in 1972, and down from 66 percent a year earlier.”
This statistic jumped out at me from an article, “Hanging on to hope on line,” written by Peter S. Goodman in the Boston Sunday Globe on April 5.
How do you respond to a statistic like that? What do you do with the feelings it brings up, specially as a Black woman who is the wife and mother and sister ...
I didn’t know because you didn’t tell me
I didn’t know that really I didn’t. You never told me. I never asked. I never thought of asking. I’m […]