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Just heard Bernice Johnson Reagon on NPR, talking about, among other things, her experience (as part of the Civil Rights...

Things in Haiti continue to sound hellish. I'd heard about the really big aftershock on Wednesday (magnitude 5.9), but it...

Two items that give me some hope for humanity: Portland dry cleaner Plaza Cleaners offers free dry cleaning for unemployed...

Ari at Reading in Color blogs about the latest YA fantasy novel with a whitewashed cover. Yep, it's yet another...

Did most of my end-of-year donations in mid-December, but finished the last few in a mad scramble at the end...

Google has posted a page with info on some ways to support disaster relief in Haiti, including a couple of...

A few things that seem kind of related to me: HP's face-tracking webcam apparently doesn't detect black faces as faces....

Two worthwhile pieces about torture: Former FBI agent Ali Soufan speaks up about the ineffectiveness of waterboarding and other related...

I've observed for a while now (or perhaps I should say "believed") that people generally tend to notice evidence that...

I just finished (most of) my end-of-year donations; here are the organizations I'm donating to. Almost all of this is...

For anyone who missed it, Mary Anne posted a very nice piece the other day about nationalism, homelands, and becoming...

Here's what I would like as a birthday present, from as many of you as are willing to participate: Be...