How Stella Got Her Groove Back

The question now is, will Taye Diggs play in the new movie as well?

In the Tea Leaves

CNN has an article that predicts that the Republicans are Out!

I so want to go to Barbra Streisand's concert in Chicago. I need a benefactor.

These are lists of some of my grandmother's first cousins...not all of them, but some.

The children of Mattie Deramus Smith(John)

Willie
Lillie (Green)
Leon(aka Jake)
Olga
Madeira(Cousin Madeira who went to school and was a principal here in Autauga Co. with Aunt Earnestine)
Charlie
Dannie
Leslie
Fannie(who runs the People's History Museum)
Lela
Clara

Children of Nettie Deramus Stoudemire
Otis
Pecola
Tom
Cottye
Elouise

Children of Emma Goodson and Harrison Frazier(in no particular order)
Mary Alice(Aunt Bebe)
Louise
Morris
Amos
Sylvester
Charlie
Catherine
Salome

Children of Willie Bell Goodson Taylor(John)
Arthur Bradson
Marguerite
Estella
Eston
"Doodle"

Children of Alfreeda Goodson White(William)
Genice(Squirt and Benita's mother)
William(Bo)Macauley
Herbert Clarke

Ann Coulter is so finally getting her due.

Turmoil at Columbia

Read here about protests concerning Columbia University's plans to take over 17 acres of West Harlem for University expansion. Community members, harkening back to the 1968 protests, are calling for letting the community decide what to do with the land. Also of concern at Columbia,the powers that be have decided to shut down the African Studies program. Students and faculty are up in arms and are calling for support in their protests. A link to the student and faculty blog for the African Studies department is on the links side of the page under Urgent issues.

Let the River Run(I Absolutely Adore This Song)

by Carly Simon

We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
let all the dreamers
wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

Silver cities rise,
the morning lights
the streets that meet them,
and sirens call them on
with a song.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.

We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

We the great and small
stand on a star
and blaze a trail of desire
through the dark'ning dawn.

It's asking for the taking.
Come run with me now,
the sky is the color of blue
you've never even seen
in the eyes of your lover.

Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

It's asking for the taking.
Trembling, shaking.
Oh, my heart is aching.
We're coming to the edge,
running on the water,
coming through the fog,
your sons and daughters.

Let the river run,
let all the dreamers
wake the nation.
Come, the New Jerusalem.

I support Ned Lamont in his campaign against Joe Lieberman.