Author Archives: the angry black woman

Quick heads up that I was on the blogger’s roundtable for News & Notes yesterday.  We didn’t get a chance to talk about the BlackBird browser, but we did talk about shoe throwing, weight gain, and smoking presidents (elect).
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The economic crisis is affecting NPR, naturally, and one of their responses has been to cancel two of their shows, News & Notes included.  I believe the story is that the show doesn’t bring in enough money in donations and has low ratings. I would be very interested in seeing the ratings breakdown of all […] Continue reading →

I know I put this in the BlackLights yesterday, but I’m still so appalled by it that I think it deserves its own post.
In case you didn’t see it, there’s a new browser out called BlackBird, aimed at the Black community.  It’s essentially Firefox but rebranded, a new black and white theme, and some add-ons […] Continue reading →

Sorry if I confused folks last week making you think that I meant I wanted to meet for drinks last Friday.  I was just asking, in general, if there would be interest.  Looks like there is :)  So now let’s make it official:
NYC folks, let’s meet for drinks this Friday evening, December 12, at 6PM.  […] Continue reading →

I’m considering having an ABW NYC gathering since I know a few of you live in the city  Maybe on a Friday night we could gather at some watering hole and talk about how the white man is keeping us down or something :)  Anyone interested?
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However, I have caved into pressure to put up an artist/writer page on Facebook.  Here it is. I’m not entirely sure what to do with it yet, but you can become my “fan”, start discussions there, write on my wall, and some other stuff.  If you’re on Facebook, that is.
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According to the NYTimes, yesterday was the first time anyone had been killed during a Black Friday frenzy.  I blinked at that, because it seemed to me that something like this had happened before.  Maybe I was just remembering all the times people had been badly hurt and almost trampled to death and extrapolating.  To […] Continue reading →

Last year on the anniversary of 9/11 I was listening to NPR’s Morning Edition and their coverage of the memorial stuff going on at the WTC site.  I was struck by the structure of the ceremony — there wasn’t just the reading of the names, but also a bell rung at the moments when the […] Continue reading →