In the pic above Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, accompanies President Barack Obama as they arrive at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Monday, March 15, 2010, en route to Strongsville, Ohio, where the president was to speak about health care reform. My guess is it was on that while on Air Force One with the president […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: Gale Library Ordinarily I enjoy the plethora of Black History Month programming, but this year I haven’t seen much around, even on PBS. Is our new president somehow to blame for this? Anyway, I used to get upset wen I would see programs about all kinds of other folks during February and I’ve […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When you go through the supermarket, there is an illusion of diversity. So much of our industrial food turns out to be rearrangements of corn. ~Michael Pollan I know what you’re thinking- Who is this white man on this so fresh blog during Black History Month talking to me about my food?…or not, but here […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Copyright © 2009 Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center for non-profit editorial use Here are some of Harriet Washington’s words from an interview she did in 2007 with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The Medical scholar and author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
