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This Black Sista's Page

http://thisblksistaspage.wordpress.com

This blog is a continuous conversation about New Orleans, black people, culture, gossip, public intellectualism, art, politics, Buddhism, journalism and ethics, looksism, cooking, fiction, history, womanism, writing, race, fashion, music and other topics of interest during this rather fractious time in American life and the life of the Republic.

• Added on: Apr 25th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: blksista
• Listed in: Beliefs & Causes Entertainment
• Tags: politics Culture news women african american nichiren buddhism

Recent Posts

• Those New Breast Cancer Guidelines: Keep Doing What YOU Are Doing Right

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 23:49 in education, family history, health, women, Cancer, Health Insurance, Canada, breast cancer, race, black women, advocate, memoir

  This episode just goes to show how much we are on our own as it comes to our own bodies: how we perceive them and how we heal them. Women all over the country must have uttered, arrrrgggghhhh! yesterday, on hearing about the new guidelines for getti...

• PBS Frontline Has a Documentary on Neda Agha-Soltan ندا آقا سلطان

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 21:43 in education, Film, women, documentary, television, history, death, iran, twitter, pbs, class, documentaries

  I’m watching this PBS investigative documentary on Neda Agha-Soltan and the Twitter Revolt in Iran in Madison, and I thought I would like to share this information with those who visited my blog this spring at the height of the unrest after th...

• A (Gay, Hate) Murder in Puerto Rico

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 14:50 in gay, Puerto Rico, cooking, sexuality, history, crime, lgbt, hate crimes, self-defense, the rest of the world, american foreign policy, people of color

  I got this news via Feministe from TowleRoad. It is not, repeat is NOT being covered by the cable/network news organizations at all. Why? Because (1) it’s a hate crime, reminiscent of the Black Dahlia sex murder in Los Angeles in the Fortie...

• At Last Night’s Vigil for Shaniya Davis

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 08:02 in family, health, race, history, crime, daughter, daughters, grief, sorrow, class, vigil, white people

  Okay, this is a better video than the earlier one from the Associated Press that I posted. Apparently, the Associated Press took this from the local channels and chopped it up for its purposes. I know this is the biggest thing for these news outlet...

• Shaniya Davis Has Been Found Dead (w/Updates)

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 12:14 in health, children, sexuality, race, motherhood, crime, child abuse, rape, african americans, mothers, class, black people

  Shaniya Davis could have been someone special in her own way, all by herself. Instead, she's fodder for Nancy Grace (Courtesy: CNN) UPDATES The little girl was found about 100 feet from Highway 87.  In other words, she was dumped along the road...

• Shaniya Davis: It’s Official; The Cops are Looking For a Body

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 11:40 in search, health, sexuality, race, crime, child abuse, rape, body, missing children, class, black people, prostitution

  Scores of volunteers are combing the area with police. Poor baby: The Endangered/Missing poster for Shaniya Davis, put out by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (Courtesy: Examiner.com) Police searching for 5-year-old Shaniya Dav...

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This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Simon Holmes

Gabrielle,what a terrific site,packed with interesting articles and comment.I liked it so much you are going in my favourites!Simon at TheRainbowBank

Posted: September 17th, 2009 | More Reviews From alnwick | Report This Comment

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