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I am saddened to report that my father passed away Wednesday morning. NORWOOD EDWARD ADAMS (November 9, 1920 - April 25, 2012) ADAMS Norwood Edward Adams, age 91 years, a native of Vacherie, LA, and a permanent resident of New Orleans, passed away on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. He was a World War II veteran who witnessed the eruption of Mount Vesuvius during the war in

This post has been syndicated at BlogHer.com where it has been updated to reflect the revelation that the artist in black face is of African descent.The National Afro-Swedish Association is demanding that Sweden's minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth be fired for participating in an April 15th World Art Day celebration during which she ate a piece of cake. The problem is not that she ate

Just a bit of jazz before bedtime. I am wiped out.

As excerpted from my post at WritingJunkie.net: With Trayvon's death, it has become apparent that some people, even some very kind people, had no idea that black mothers need to have "the talk" with their sons. And others, too,—less kind—have revealed what they do not know as well, white men such as John Derbyshire, who took it upon himself to say there is a white version of "the talk" that white

Happy National Poetry Month!While surfing for something about Louisiana-born poet Yusef Komunyakaa, I came across a interview at Well&Often Press: The Love Child of Frida Kahlo and DMX: An Interview with Safia Elhillio. It included video of Elhillio performing her spoken word poem "Questions for John Coltrane, from his saxophone." The interview, conducted and written by Kameelah Janan Rasheed,