Richard Wright

'I, Barack Hussein Obama...'

A cathartic moment, a sudden change of vista and a vision of hope -- the election of Barack Obama as the next US president was all these things, despite some ominous signs of things to come, writes Hamid Dabashi*

Information Access to Cultural Heritage Workshop Report: ECDL 2008, Aarhus Denmark, 18 September...

ECDL 2008, Aarhus Denmark, 18 September 2008 The workshop on Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH 2008) was held during the ECDL conference in Aarhus, Denmark on the 18th September 2008 [1] [2]. The programme featured...

As close to an advertisment as you've ever seen on P6

I think "endorsement" is more accurate... Back in August, American Masters presented a documentary on Zora Neale Hurston (watch the embedded auutoplaying sound)...long-timers here will know she's one of my heroes. California...

Library Diva added the blog post 'Dude Lit'

You know I love chick lit, as sort of a "guilty pleasure." I wondered why it was specific to men, as there are some damn good books on here, but I guess that probably has to do with it being a men's magazine, like "The Ten...

Jeannie Mercer, Board of Constributors: A few words; so much said

Monday, November 17, 2008 I have discovered a quietly therapeutic way to use wakeful midnights: composing haiku. It gives me something to do with swirling dreams and memories besides weep over them or chew on them endlessly. I...

Doncaster 1-0 Ipswich

Shelton Martis scored the only goal of the game as Doncaster beat Ipswich for their first win in 13 league games. Morris's header also ended Doncaster's goal drought at home, which had stretched to 325 minutes of football....

What Obama Means For Black America

A new reality--without a revolution. We have heard much about what the election of Barack Obama as president means for America, but less about what it means for black America specifically, beyond surprise and vague notions of...

2008 marks centennial of Richard Wright's birth

Julia Wright bounces and paces across the front of the library at Lanier High School, a public place of learning in a neighborhood of neat, modest homes and the occasional building tagged with graffiti.

The always eccentric Flaming Lips make a sci-fi movie in their ...

Though it can seem like an insular, psychedelic utopia, the Lips have always sang songs grounded in reality, often about death and failure. If "Christmas on Mars" sounds like the kind of film that might inspire an audience to...

Blue watch: How on-loan keeper Espen became a real City slicker

FOR a man who only made one league appearance for Everton, Espen Baardsen figures more often in Evertonian conversations than his record would justify. Perhaps it was the nature of that appearance – a last minute stand-in for...

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