Big Sole Blog (BSB)

Giraffes' mating ritual commences at Disney World's Animal Kingdom Lodge, but doesn't get far.

Most likely, I do not have to tell Americans who Bobby McFerrin is, but an introduction to Richard Bona may be warranted. Bona is an African musician from the country of Cameroon. I enjoyed this video. I needed it as well.

Last night, I watched the first two installments of HBO's mini-series John Adams, starring the exceptionally talented Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as John and Abigail Adams. Although I am sure that some moments are romanticized, the series is still much closer to the reality of America's struggle for independence from Great Britain than the fairy tales many of us were fed as children, and

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

When my father, age 91, told me a few weeks ago that a woman, born Augustine Lemieux Stevens (a.k.a. Gussie), had died, I shuddered for moment in a spasm of grief. I grieved not because I knew Ms. Gussie but because I did not know her. Born on September 13, 1911 in Vacherie, Louisiana, of St. James Parish, she lived near him when he was a child growing up in that rural town. Vacherie sits on

When I read at the Huffington Post on Monday that CNN's Anderson Cooper did not know how to leave Egypt if he wanted to, I almost wrote a post because I like Cooper, but when I checked CNN's website that day and saw nothing about what he told HuffPo, I decided to wait. Today, however, I had to write something because I heard on Twitter that Cooper and his crew was attacked, that he was hit in the

Sometimes when we're hit with news about protests or unrest in the world, I like to write an explanation of why the news is important. I don't have time to write much, and for the situation in Egypt, I don't need to because so many journalists and analysts have done so already. Here are some links to help you understand why we should be concerned about instability in Egypt and what could happen: