Of interest for November 17th from November 17th to November 17th:
- Obama To Make Urban Policy A Priority - (hat tip to Racialicious): Now if we could just get the urban office and small farm aid people in cahoots…
- Obama as role model for black youth? + Byron Hurt - "But some African Americans living in inner city Atlanta said that while Obama is a role model his life appeared so far removed from their own struggles that it was difficult to see how they could use it to spur their own success."::"Hurt's latest film, "Barack and Curtis", is a 10-minute documentary released on the internet that compares the image projected by Obama with the image of Curtis Jackson, who is better known as the rapper 50 Cent."
- `$100 laptop' group reboots Give One Get One offer - We did this last year for our 3 y.o. son. One of the best purchases we've ever made for him. So how about a U.S. version?

As usual, I tuned right in to the Miss Universe pageant last night. (It’s a 

So yay! Here I am. Post #100. I think I thought I ‘d get here sooner, but since I pretty much disappeared for October and November… (something about a day job? about teaching the children?) Alas, I am and shall always be a s l o w poster
Well, this morning I was greeted by a story on crimes against the LGBT community in Newark, NJ, “
Not to go all Tabitha Soren on you, but wouldn’t it be nice if national politics really became the next big urban youth trend? I know that Diddy tried it with his 2003
My favorite headline so far today, from 


So, according to the 
Since we’re on the subject of feminine hygiene as a subject of amusement, you might want to check out this old $3.60 post, “
I caught
The authors suggest that this work challenges interpretations of childhood and infantile amnesia pointing to failures to translate preverbal experiences into language once language is acquired. Yet the fact that three-quarters of children fail to do this, even in the presence of physical reminders of the original experience, seems to support this claim rather than undermine it. Perhaps some children can recode these preverbal memories into language when prompted, but children may still not due this under real-world circumstances and thus experience childhood “amnesia.”
According to the AP, Mychal Bell, one of the group of young African American students dubbed the Jena 6, has been released on a $45,000 bail.


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(I’m so totally cut out for law enforcement reform. Clearly I’ve got the right kind of ideas, and I’ve got the motivation…)
Huh. I totally remember this proposal. At the end of some big and victorious game over Oklahoma, Boise State football player Ian Johnson, who is black, got down on his knee and proposed to Chrissy Popadics, who is white.I remember that I was sitting in the living room at my father’s house; we all had something to say:
In front of tomorrow’s trial on Genarlow Wilson’s appeal, The Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC), 

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