Black Looks

• Melanocytes are why Africa is poor

  Posted: December 30, 2007, 6:48 am by Rethabile

  “I keep hearing from white africans [sic] that they know blacks (Africans) since they are from Africa and that they have the mentality of teen agers [sic]. They insist that they are difficult to educate and have hard time [sic] understanding basic procedures. They also claim that blacks are irresponsible and won’t do what is [...]

• The viewing

  Posted: December 29, 2007, 10:30 pm by Rethabile

  When a giver of life gives hers to the world, we should listen for, and trace, the ingredient in her that carries forward — it’s in the way she lasts like a river, even at this late hour past life and its impediments, past frail moments and grand ones, a child’s death there, a grandchild’s [...]

• Our road

  Posted: December 25, 2007, 11:08 am by Rethabile

  How deep’s deep, how dark’s dark? What depth will keep secrets and, will some shady dim- ness suffice to turn a secret grim, leaving it in the dark? It is this that I’ve carried like a prayer mat all my life; it enters me from nowhere, as we set off from home for my kids’ school. From where we live to where school is there is a five minute walk that often-times turns to a nightmare. I [...]

• More time to help feed children…

  Posted: December 23, 2007, 11:51 pm by Rethabile

  Yay! We’ve got more time… We’ve just gotten word that the deadline to make donations to Menu For Hope food blogger charity campaign has been extended through the weekend. So if you missed out in entering the raffle for our fantastic prize package, or any of the dozens of other prizes that are up for grabs, [...]

• Rescued from historical silence: bringing Afrodescendant women and girls back to life

  Posted: December 21, 2007, 2:44 pm by Sokari

  Today in 1855, an enslaved 19 year old Black girl and mother named Celia was executed for murder after being found guilty by a jury of 12 white men. Melton McLaurin’s book Celia: A Slave is the story of her rape by her master and her trial for his murder. (Via Marian’s [...]

• Only a little time left!

  Posted: December 21, 2007, 12:58 pm by Rethabile

  37 hours left to help feed Lesotho kids — and win great prizes: by Bonnie P. @ 2:45 pm on 20 December 2007. As just about every food blog has publicized already, Pim Techamuanvivit of Chez Pim is once again spearheading the epic online fund-raiser Menu for Hope to benefit the U.N. World [...]

• Gated Reflections #4

  Posted: December 20, 2007, 8:52 pm by Annwen

  Or why in November I bought hothouse flowers instead of A magazine She introduced me to the benefits of eight glasses of water a day as she sipped from a glass between interview sessions in the Chicago studio. She inspired me to take up keeping a gratitude journal. She wrote in her gratitude journal reclining [...]

• Dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa

  Posted: December 19, 2007, 2:15 pm by Rethabile

  I was attracted enough by the title of an AllAfrica.com article to resolve to read it. The title read: “Uganda: Africans Can Overcome HIV/Aids.” I wanted to know how we could do so. If Uganda can do it, then Lesotho can, also, I reasoned. Lesotho has one of the highest rates in the world. I [...]

• Stuff - what is it and where does it come from?

  Posted: December 13, 2007, 1:33 am by Sokari

  From Extraction through to production, consumption and disposal, Free Range Studios presents The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way [...]

• Carnival of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence

  Posted: December 10, 2007, 1:21 pm by Sokari

  Thanks to everyone who participated in the Carnival by submitting posts as well as those who linked and promoted the carnival on their blogs. Thinking about how to group the Carnival posts I finally decided on two groupings, those that speak specifically to the Global South and those which speak to a [...]

• It is women who are being raped

  Posted: December 8, 2007, 5:34 pm by Sokari

  Many acts of Gender Based Violence which could lead to contracting HIV/AIDS, are part of the daily experience for women in Darfur. As part of the 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women, a short play on HIV/AIDs was performed in Abu Shouk refugee camp in North Darfur. A [...]

• Gaza Calling

  Posted: December 8, 2007, 3:24 am by Sokari

  Via Sabbah’s Blog Links: Anthem For Someone’s Child Tags: Palestine Gaza Israel Share This:

• Menu for Hope IV - spotlight on Lesotho

  Posted: December 6, 2007, 2:35 pm by Rethabile

  Cook sister!: Menu for Hope IV - spotlight on Lesotho: I’m sure you have all heard of the wonderful Menu for Hope event that is the brainchild of Pim and takes place once a year around Christmas. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, the campaign involves food bloggers (and others) [...]

• who will save these men?

  Posted: December 5, 2007, 5:34 am by Sokari

  The Sudanese government are holding 27 men believed to be “prisoners of conscience”. Amnesty International believe the men have been tortured and may be sentenced to death. The men are: * Abdel Jalil al-Basha (m), Umma Reform and Renewal Party General Secretary * Yaqoub Yahya (m), former army [...]

• we love our laptops

  Posted: December 4, 2007, 5:39 pm by Sokari

  Our laptops are green And I’m in wi-fi heaven Tags: Nigeria $100 Laptop South Africa Share This:

• Quick Links

  Posted: December 3, 2007, 6:46 pm by Sokari

  The International Women of Colors Blog has been set up as part of the International Women of Color Day. There is also a FaceBook group created by Marian Douglas-Ungaro of Marian’s Blog. Last week’s Pambazuka has ten articles as part of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence in Africa. They also have [...]

• Problem immigrants and poor old expats

  Posted: December 2, 2007, 2:23 am by Sokari

  I live in Europe where i can get free health care. But how do you feel safe when 2 more boys are killed by a police in Paris and within hours they are forgotten as the media and people start to talk of riots and burning car and the “the [...]

• HIV/AIDS realities

  Posted: December 1, 2007, 5:07 pm by Sokari

  Remembering Busi who died on the 12th March this year and all my friends living with HIV. President Bush today announced he would be asking the US Congress to agree $30billion over the next 5 years. However in the past the US has tied HIV/AIDS funding to abstinence only HIV programmes and in Uganda they [...]

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