April Joyner |
Assorted, bite-size musings on entrepreneurship, entertainment, education, race, social justice, life, etc. |
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A New Model for Civil Rights: Obama at Morehouse — American Dreamers
Check out my new post on Medium (the cool new writing platform by the folks that brought you Twitter) about why I think Obama’s Morehouse address—and his speeches emphasizing personal responsibility for black Americans—are more than just mere finger-wagging.
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Notes"In black America—where people have been voting for Presidential candidates who didn’t share their racial background since even before the Fifteenth Amendment—the 2008 election wasn’t seen as the star-spangled “Kumbaya” it was billed as elsewhere. White rejoicing at Obama’s racial landmark seemed tone deaf, unduly self-congratulatory. White voters had simply done something black voters had been doing for at least the previous hundred and thirty-four years."Jelani Cobb, “Barack X,” at the New Yorker
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"My birthday is April 26th, Confederate Memorial Day. I was born 100 years to the day after that holiday was invented. I don’t think I could have escaped learning about the Civil War and what it represented."
Natasha Trethewey, the new U.S. poet laureate
I sat in a lecture on memory of the Civil War in the Civil Rights Movement this past weekend during my fifth-year college reunion. Another post to come: some interesting things went down.
Bonus: interviews with Trethewey here and here (h/t: thesmithian)
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I Got So Much Faith In This Little Dude Kendrick.
Been sitting on this one for too long. Figure Dre Day + a week before Kendrick’s two...
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Joining The Atlantic
I’m excited to announce that next month I’ll be joining The Atlantic with the somewhat intimidating title of “Entrepreneur in...
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Diverse Pages exists to promote and discover Main Characters of Color (MCoC) in the mainstream and independent...
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Free analytics for your personal Tumblr!
Good news, everyone! We’ve been hard at work keeping a promise we made when we first launched Union...
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It’s the 15th Anniversary of Sex and the City’s premiere and we still don’t understand Carrie Bradshaw’s accessory choices. Here’s to you, CB, the...
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The Borowitz Report: A Letter to Verizon Customers
1. Will I be charged extra for this service?
I’m happy to say that the answer is no. While...
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Ebony Man
My freshman year at Howard, my mother bought me a subscription to Ebony Man magazine. I had zero appreciation for it at...
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The guy who wrote this synopsis now writes jokes on George Takei’s Facebook page for $10 a pop. Progress!
I’ve always wondered...
