Author: blksista

If you’re wringing your hands about what you can do for New Orleans and Louisiana, I saw this on a listserve: In 1964, 800 college students from around the country came to Mississippi to register African American voters...

Let the AP in the NYT break the news: Harriet Miers, President Bush’s failed Supreme Court nominee, has submitted her resignation as White House counsel, the White House announced Thursday. White House press secretary Tony...

I just came from the Orange Zone.  Despite all the front page exuberance about her accession to power tomorrow, and how this is going to make American history, I just cannot feel anything for Nancy Pelosi just yet. Here is...

Dinerral Shavers is dead. Hot 8 Brass Band drummer Dinerral Shavers, 25, was gunned down Thursday (December 28) while driving in Mid-City with his wife and two children. […] He is the second member of the Hot 8 Brass Band...

Via Raw Story from the Chicago Sun-Times. Pick-ax digging for any scandal to put on Obama. In addition to a land deal, Sen. Barack Obama’s ties to indicted dealmaker Antoin “Tony” Rezko include an internship...