Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging since April 2009 and haven’t [...]
Continue reading …USDA’s Shirley Sherrod, consumer rudeness, and the conundrum of blacks in power
July 23, 2010 Comments OffBy Dr. Ibram H. Rogers The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently forced its Georgia director of rural development, Shirley Sherrod to resign for her supposed racism. On Monday, a conservative blogger published a two-minute, 38-second video clip of a March 27 NAACP banquet. In the video, Sherrod apparently says she was in a position to come [...]
Continue reading …My family has been farming since slavery. I say this in a literal sense, not using the metaphor of how we all sew and reap the harvests of our lives. We have gone from slaves to sharecroppers to owners of our own land and crops. Our story is uniquely and beautifully American. As such, my [...]
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