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Ladytex
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09-27-2001
| Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 2:55 pm
Commentary: Obama, Cosby, King and the mountaintop (CNN) -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told followers the night before he was killed that he had been "to the mountaintop" and seen the promised land of racial equality. Last week's election of Barack Obama was the equivalent of taking all African-Americans to that peak, says Dr. Alvin Poussaint. Dr. Alvin Poussaint says Barack Obama's election will shape the perceptions of a generation of black children. In his view, Obama's victory last week wasn't just a political triumph. It was a seismic event in the history of black America. Poussaint has made it his life's work to study how African-Americans see themselves and how the larger society sees them. <snip> CNN: Obama is taking over at a time of tremendous international and national challenges. Every president has setbacks. What would be the impact of setbacks on a political level? Poussaint: Nearly everybody that you hear talk about it realizes that he's inheriting a horrible situation. In fact one of the black leaders joked about how, as soon as things are falling apart in the country, that they hand it over to a black person -- "Here, you take it." <snip>
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 9:31 pm
Wonderful article LadyT!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, November 14, 2008 - 1:21 pm
Rofl!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:41 am
For American black women, Michelle Obama is the new role model 3 days ago NEW YORK — Michelle Obama inspired Richelle Shaw to be a better mother. The future president's wife gave LaTonya Brown hope that she can find a husband. And Tina Sutton recites "We are Michelle Obama" with her four-year-old daughter every morning. For black women across the country, Michelle Obama is a new role model, a woman who defies stereotypes in a public way they say they haven't seen since the fictional Clair Huxtable of "The Cosby Show." Sutton, 35, is using the future first lady to help teach her daughter to be secure in herself. "I am comparing her skin to Michelle's," she said. "I talk to her about her tall mother and father and that she will more than likely be tall. That is so appealing just like Michelle. Her mother is married to a handsome good black man, just like Michelle and Barack." http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jbmxCnhdX-mzMAa8fa8sPsasFsoA
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002
| Monday, November 17, 2008 - 10:49 am
Terrific article, Ms. Aubergine. 
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Monday, November 17, 2008 - 11:00 am
That is a great! I just love listening to Michelle Obama.
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:28 am
Great article! Thanks for sharing Mocha. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 8:57 am
Why African-American Art Is So Hot Susan Adams, 12.03.08, 07:30 PM EST Work by these artists is controversial and sizzling. Robert Johnson explains why. Hanging in Robert Johnson's den is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden. The painting depicts a black American businessman getting his shoes shined. The subject is nattily dressed in suit and spats, a little like Johnson himself, who is sporting a crisply pressed blue shirt and a shiny yellow tie. "That painting represents pride and dignity," says Johnson. "I identify personally with this work." (snip) Though mainstream museums and galleries have been slow to appreciate work by African-Americans, the black community has been collecting for decades. Bill and Camille Cosby have built a collection of 400 works, including artists like Bearden, Lawrence, late-19th-century landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, self-taught 20th-century artist Horace Pippin and 1960s abstract painter Alma Thomas. Now white collectors and institutions are discovering these long overlooked works. "What's happened in the last five years is a paradigm shift," observes Steven L. Jones, 61, an African-American dealer in Philadelphia. "This means that the best work is going up exponentially in value." Last year Swann Auction Galleries in New York became the first auction house to create a department of African-American art and in February sold a 1944 modernist oil by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas for $600,000. (snip) Johnson, who plans to stage a Washington, D.C., exhibition of his art this February, believes the works should be displayed separately from those of white Americans. "This is work by artists who were influenced by the fact that they were African-Americans living in America and dealing with all that that means," he argues. Sometimes they provocatively exploit racial stereotypes. Example: a 1940 canvas hanging in Johnson's office by Archibald Motley. Called "The Argument," the painting depicts a street scene and a couple of men who look like minstrels in blackface, with oversize red lips. Johnson doesn't have a problem with this picture. "It's just black folks being black folks," he observes, smiling. "They're talking about what happened in the club last night," he adds. "Or maybe they're talking about when they're going to have a black president." http://www.forbes.com/collecting/2008/12/03/collecting-guide-art-forbeslife-cx_sa_1203collectorsguide.html
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, December 04, 2008 - 8:58 am
A couple of my personal favorites are Ernie Barnes and Annie Lee.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, December 12, 2008 - 7:57 am
HAPPY 50TH BIRTHDAY, ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER! Lights Up! Alvin Ailey's Gang Turns 50 Here’s my daydream. I’m walking along 8th Street and meet the ghost of Alvin Ailey. He looks gorgeous—just the way he did when I ran into him over 30 years ago in the same place. “Alvin,” I say, “did you know that on the opening night of your company’s 50th anniversary season—in honor of it—the top part of the Empire State Building was bathed in gold light?” He looks astounded, thinks I’m kidding (the dance grapevine must not work well where he is). “And,” I add, “they’ve created a special Alvin Ailey Barbie® doll; she’s posed in her box as if she’s doing those upflung leaps in Revelations' 'Take Me to the Water' section, and she’s wearing the correct, flouncy white dress for it.” He falls on the pavement laughing. But you know what? He’s thrilled. <snip>
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of one of the world's premier modern dance companies, we present the first ever Barbie® Doll to be inspired by a dance company-Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater Barbie® & Doll. Designed by Artistic Director Judith Jamison, this Barbie® Doll reflects the famed beauty and grace of Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater and its world-class dancers. Taking the stage in a soaring leap and perfectly applied stage makeup, the doll is dressed in a flowing, white and lace costume worn in wade in the Water from Alvin Ailey's masterpiece Revelations. Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater Barbie® doll honors Alvin Ailey's legacy, the remarkable vision of Judith Jamison, and AAADT's mission to inspire and unite people of all backgrounds through the universal language of dance. Join us in the celebration of Alvin Ailey® American Dance Theater-America's cultural ambassador to the world! http://www.aileyboutique.com/
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, December 12, 2008 - 8:58 am
I've had the thrill of seeing them onstage in Toronto. Breathtaking!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, December 12, 2008 - 8:59 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJzSP7irwM&NR=1
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, December 12, 2008 - 9:04 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Qb7TN7ZNA&NR=1
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 12:08 am
Daughter of a Slave Dies Quietly
Texan Amanda Roberts Jones, the 110-year-old daughter of a slave, died in her sleep Thursday, just two days after her birthday and less than two months after she voted for the first African-American president, The Houston Chronicle reports. She had just received a new dress that she would wear to a Sunday celebration honoring her life, according to the newspaper. "We are still going to celebrate her life," her granddaughter, Beverly Shaw, told the Chronicle on Friday. When Jones was born on Dec. 16, 1898, the Titanic had not yet been built and the Wright brothers had not taken flight from Kitty Hawk, N.C. Shaw said that her grandmother was in “awe” every time she saw an airplane in the sky. "Her father was a slave, and she did tell stories about working in the cotton fields and working on differing plantations, picking vegetables and cotton," Shaw told the Chronicle. Granddaughter Brenda Baker said, “She thought it was wonderful that she had lived to see an African-American become president. She was thankful she got to see that." Jones and her late husband, C.L. Jones Sr., had 10 children, and together they owned a country store in Cedar Creek; it was the first African-American-owned business in that community. Jones had 32 grandchildren, 65 great-grandchildren and 20 great-great-grandchildren.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 1:24 am
wow.. just wow ....
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 7:10 am
Ditto that. Just wow
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 7:40 am
Celebrating a life fully lived! What a legacy she leaves behind.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 7:43 am
An amazing life.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 1:40 pm
I'm glad she made it through the election. I agree, quite an amazing life.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 2:30 pm
Unbelievable. Was she the last child of a slave known to be living?
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 3:39 pm
What a lovely lady. I'm saddened that she died, but it's amazing that she lived to see Obama elected.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 - 5:24 pm
It's amazing the history she's lived thru. The stories she must've shared with her kids and grandkids an greatgrandkids.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, December 26, 2008 - 12:15 pm
UMOJA Umoja (ooh-MOE-jah) means Unity, and it is the principle for the first day of Kwanzaa. Our families and communities need unity in order for them to be productive and to survive. On this day, we pledge to strive for -- and to maintain -- unity in the family, in the community, in the nation that we have helped to build, and with our PEOPLE.}
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, December 26, 2008 - 12:30 pm

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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, December 27, 2008 - 2:13 am
Happy Kwanza! Thank you for posting that Lady, I was just wondering last night when it was starting. Is there any significance to the three red candles and four black ones?
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