Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Blogswarm For Pam Spaulding
Which E-mail Program Do You Use?
This interesting chart comes from Talking Points Memo, who snagged it from Business Insider. BI is reporting that Facebook's new planned email service could have a significant impact on other big players on the Internet:
If Facebook's email service is a success, it's bad news for Yahoo and AOL, which are already losing users. It's also bad news for Google, which uses Gmail as a launch point into search, Google Apps, and to small degree social stuff through Buzz.
What would it take for Facebook email to be a success? Well, Facebook has 150 million active users in the United States. It's unlikely to convert all those users, but if it can get just a third of them to start using its email, it would have the second most popular email service in the U.S.Which email program do you use?
A Word About Our Sponsors
For some inexplicable reason, after a low point in the middle of the summer, web traffic at this blog has recently gone up to about 3000 visitors per week from our usual average of 2000 visitors per week and advertisers have started to notice. Currently I run ads from the Gay Ad Network, MSNBC political ad network and two blogads channels: Gay Blogads and Gay Political Blogads.
We had a huge traffic spike right around election day (interestingly the day AFTER, not the day before) and so are currently running four ads simultaneously. This is very cool but not something I expect to happen very often. I'm not even making enough from advertising to pay for the amount of time I spend on the blog, but it is better than a sharp stick in the eye.
Please support the advertisers on MadProfessah.com!
My Former Student Is In Sunday's New York Times
My goodness! One of my students from last year's CSP19: Gay Rights in the Obama Era, Josh Erdman (pictured above, right), is quoted in today's New York Times in an article entitled "For Gays, New Songs Of Survival":
THERE is no better place to witness the growing pains of pop music than on the video-sharing site YouTube, where for the past year Josh Erdman, 20, and Bill Klute, 19, both sophomores at Occidental College in Los Angeles [emphasis added], have been posting clips of themselves singing covers of pop songs by Miley Cyrus, B.o.B, Kelly Clarkson and other Top 40 regulars. Shot mostly in Mr. Erdman’s dormitory room, where the walls are adorned with posters of Lady Gaga and from the television series “True Blood,” the videos have the simplicity and sincerity of a campfire singalong. After several of the clips received over 100,000 views, the two men began to add a small stamp to the videos that reads “Legalize Gay,” a line that Mr. Klute cribbed from a T-shirt he bought at American Apparel.
“We weren’t sure if we were going to express our orientation with these videos,” said Mr. Erdman, a member of Occidental’s Queer Straight Alliance. “But we wanted people like us to know we’re out there.”
After finding “We R Who We R” on a music-sharing Web site a couple of weeks ago, they updated the stamp to read, “Legalize Gay ’Cause We Are Who We Are.”
“The lyrics obviously spoke to us,” Mr. Klute said. “What these artists are doing means the world to the gay community.”
The article even links to their YouTube channel, KoverBoys. I am amazed!
Obama Meets With Progressive Bloggers, Discusses Gay Marriage
Joe Sudbay from AmericaBlog.com, Barbara Morrill (aka BarbinMD) from DailyKos.com,
John Amato from Crooks & Liars, Oliver Willis from OliverWillis.com, and
Duncan Black aka "Atrios" from eschatonblog.com
John Amato from Crooks & Liars, Oliver Willis from OliverWillis.com, and
Duncan Black aka "Atrios" from eschatonblog.com
A number of progressive bloggers, including some of my faves, were invited to the White House today for a 45-minute sit-down, on the record, meeting with President Barack Obama.
The only one of the bloggers that I know who is openly gay is Joe Sudbay, and here is the question he asked the President today about marriage equality:
Q And this one is on the issue of marriage. Since you’ve become President, a lot has changed. More states have passed marriage equality laws. This summer a federal judge declared DOMA unconstitutional in two different cases. A judge in San Francisco declared Prop 8 was unconstitutional. And I know during the campaign you often said you thought marriage was the union between a man and a woman, and there — like I said, when you look at public opinion polling, it’s heading in the right direction. We’ve actually got Republicans like Ted Olson and even Ken Mehlman on our side now. So I just really want to know what is your position on same-sex marriage?THE PRESIDENT: Joe, I do not intend to make big news sitting here with the five of you, as wonderful as you guys are. (Laughter.) But I’ll say this –Q I just want to say, I would be remiss if I didn’t ask you this question.THE PRESIDENT: Of course.Q People in our community are really desperate to know.THE PRESIDENT: I think it’s a fair question to ask. I think that — I am a strong supporter of civil unions. As you say, I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage.But I also think you’re right that attitudes evolve, including mine. And I think that it is an issue that I wrestle with and think about because I have a whole host of friends who are in gay partnerships. I have staff members who are in committed, monogamous relationships, who are raising children, who are wonderful parents.And I care about them deeply. And so while I’m not prepared to reverse myself here, sitting in the Roosevelt Room at 3:30 in the afternoon, I think it’s fair to say that it’s something that I think a lot about. That’s probably the best you’ll do out of me today. (Laughter.)Q It is an important issue, and I think that –THE PRESIDENT: I think it’s an entirely fair question to ask.Q And part of it is that you can’t be equal in this country if the very core of who you are as a person and the love — the person you love is not — if that relationship isn’t the same as everybody else’s, then we’re not equal. And I think that a lot of — particularly in the wake of the California election on Prop 8, a lot of gay people realized we’re not equal. And I think that that’s — that’s been part of the change in the –THE PRESIDENT: Prop 8, which I opposed.Q Right. I remember you did. You sent the letter and that was great. I think that the level of intensity in the LGBT community changed after we lost rights in that election. And I think that’s a lot of where the community is right now.THE PRESIDENT: The one thing I will say today is I think it’s pretty clear where the trendlines are going.Q The arc of history.THE PRESIDENT: The arc of history. Anything else?
08/08/08 2 Years Later: We're STILL Married
August 8, 2010 12noon: celebrating our 2nd wedding anniversary with a brunch at an East Hollywood restaurant called Square One Dining.
MadProfessah Meets Markos of DailyKos
One of the amazing aspects of Netroots Nation is that you never know who you'll run into. Right before Senate MajorityLeader Harry Reid spoke on Saturday, I ran into DailyKos.com founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and he took this picture with me. Netroots Nation started off as the annual get together YearlyKos, a gathering of like-minded people who used the Dailykos.com site to share idea and form an online progressive community. DailyKos.com is one of the biggest blogs on the Internet, getting hundreds of thousands of hits per day, nearly 4 million hits per week. Markos is now a best-selling author and frequent television commentator but he is still very down-to-earth and it was an honor to meet him.Pretty cool, eh?
Thanks again to Mike Rogers and the Citizen Journalist/ Blogger Initiative for the financial support to attend the conference for the second year in a row. Next year it is in Minneapolis!
WATCH: Obama's Video Address To Netroots Nation
I'm back home in Los Angles now after attending Netroots Nation in Las Vegas this week. Barack Obama did not attend the conference, but recorded this video message for the netroots attendees. Note the references to LGBT accomplishments.
Hat/tip to WonderMan
Celebrity Friday (Extra): Pamela Karlan
MadProfessah and Law Professah Pam Karlan
Today after the excellent panel at Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas entitled "Liberal Perspectives on the Kagan Supreme Court Nomination" which featured Dahlia Lithwick, Nan Aron, Keith Kamisugi, Joan McCarter and Pamela Karlan. MadProfessah took a picture with one of my idols, Stanford Law Professor (and former Dean) Pamela Karlan, who has been on progressives' wet dream short list for the United States Supreme Court.
Karlan explicitly mentioned the Goodwin Liu nomination to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (which we have been following here at this blog), and said that progressives should pay careful attention as to whether the UC Berkeley Law Professor gets approved by the Senate. Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has said that he is putting a hold on all appellate-level federal judicial nominees before the mid-term election, so things do not look good. To support the nomination of a principled progressive to the 9th circuit, click here and here.
Take a look at the picture. Notice anything? Yes, we co-ordinated our colors. It's not pink, it's fuchsia! I think she wears the pearls better than I do, yes?
Netroots Nation 2010 Las Vegas: #lgbtnn10
MadProfessah is attending Netroots Nation 2010 in Las Vegas this week July 20th-24th thanks to financial support from Mike Rogers' Blogger Initiative. The Twitter hashtag for LGBT coverage at Netroots Nation is #lgbtnn10.
Yesterday I attended the LGBT confab for Netroots Nation attendees where some of the people there were Dan Choi, Fred Karger, Barbara McCullough-Jones, Gloria Nieto, and Phil Attey. There were also presentations from organizational representatives like Fred Sainz (Human Rights Campaign Foundation), Jason Perez Howe (Lambda Legal), Steve Hildebrand (Faith in America), Michael Crawford (Freedom To Marry) Heather Cronk (GetEqual). Since I'm on the board of Immigration Equality, I represented that organization at the caucus.
Strangely, the Task Force had no representative.
Later on there were interesting discussions between the attendees on "ENDA" and "Immigration Reform" in one session and "Marriage Equality" and "HIV/AIDS" in the second session.
Thursday, after an eventful night (which I may blog about later involving a trip to a local Urgent Care Clinic!), I attended the three sessions:"Marriage Equality: Building a Movement Online," "Immigration Reform's Strange Bedfellows," and "How to Plan for Your Website Redesign"
New Look At This Blog!
Blogger recently announced an amazing, new blogger template designer that makes it much easier to change the look and feel of blogspot.com-hosted blogs.
I changed the look of MadProfessah.com to a 3-column look yesterday. What do you think?
I'm still looking for help in designing an official banner.
My Thoughts on LOST Finale
The Simpsons and Lost: Two great tastes that taste great together! There are a lot of thoughts going to be posted on the finale of Lost in the next few hours, days and weeks. In fact, there are a lot of reactions out there on the web already, mostly positive, but not all.It was clearly, an excellent episode of television, cinematic in its scope, production and ambition and largely worked on these levels. But, Lost has always been a show that works on miltiple levels, a palimpsest of sort. One of the most obvious different levels of analysis of the text that is Lost is from the perspective of a character-driven narrative versus a plot-driven narrative. All meaningful entertainment has to have both, of course.
I would argue that the finale of Lost was more geared towards satisfying the viewers interested in character than plot (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
However, as a finale to a complex, popular and critically acclaimed television series it was not as satisfying as HBO's Six Feet Under's conclusion, but this is not surprising since the two shows were very different. But even if one tries to compare the finale of Lost to the seminal final episodes of other television series like SyFy's Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, HBO's The Wire, J.J. Abrams' own Alias I would say that Lost's outshone all of them with the possible exception of The Wire.
So, while there was a lot more about the episode that I like than disliked, here are the main issues I had with the finale:
- Two words: Dharma Initiative. There was no explanation about how the Dharma Initiative was founded, and what it's goals were. The producers did explain the creation of the stations all over the island during the series but there was never revealed a "grand unified theory" explaining what Dharma was all about and what they were trying to do with the Island.
- Walt. In Season 2 and 3, a lot of the plot revolved around The Others and their obsession with kids and the mystery of why women who got pregnant on the island would die. This issue was never resolved in the series.
- The egyptian statue of Taweret. There never was an explanation of why the oldest parts of the island have hieroglyphics everywhere and why they made a 200-foot statue of the Egyptian fertility god. I am glad they explained how the four-toed statue got there, but it is very disappointing that was all we got.
There are more questions, but these are the main ones that come to mind right now.
Another thought I had is that people are saying that the last image of Lost was that of Jack's eye closing (as he dies) which is a nice symmetry to the very first image of Lost which is of Jack's eye opening, but really the last image was of wreckage on the beach. If that is the wreckage of Oceanic 815, what time period does it belong to? 2007, three years after the crash and just seconds after Jack dies, or is it years in the future, or is it showing us that everyone died and there were no survivors (that was my initial thought but I have rejected that possibility becomes it nullifies all the action of the entire series as basically being a figment of Jack's imagination).
What do you think?
UPDATE 07:17pm 05/25/2010:
Apparently the images of wreckage shown during the credits were not part of Damon Lindelof and Darlton Cuse's script for the show and were added by ABC television executives worried about a harsh transition to the news. (hat/tip LA TIMES ShowTracker)
UPDATE 07:17pm 05/25/2010:
Apparently the images of wreckage shown during the credits were not part of Damon Lindelof and Darlton Cuse's script for the show and were added by ABC television executives worried about a harsh transition to the news. (hat/tip LA TIMES ShowTracker)
Condomania Ranks U.S. Cities By Average Penis Size
Joe.My.God has posted this great map which ranks American cities by average penis size by analyzing the size of the custom condoms ordered to addresses in those cities via online retailer Condomania.com. "The Big Easy" (New Orleans, LA) ranks first. I'm somewhat surprised but I have barely ever been there. However, if my memory serves me right, I am unsurprised by the District of Columbia being ranked #2! *cough* majority Los Angeles, my fair city, placed 17th. Oh, the shame! Then again, yours truly didn't order any condoms from Condomania, or else I would have skewed the rankings up! *grin*
Here's the Top 20:
- New Orleans
- Washington DC
- San Diego
- New York City
- Phoenix
- Portland
- Atlanta
- San Francisco
- Chicago
- St. Louis
- Seattle
- Miami
- Indianapolis
- Columbus
- Boston
- Denver
- Los Angeles
- Detroit
- Philadelphia
- Dallas/Ft. Worth
20 Cities Ordered by Penis Size
I would love to know what this is going to do to my blog traffic now that I have a blog post with "penis size" in the title!
Blogswarm: Call HRC To Demand Action on DADT!
There's a blogswarm going on today to ramp up the pressure on getting the LGBT community's largest organization to insist on ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell this year, as President Obama said at the State of the Union address a few weeks ago:Although, I am not usually a fan of John Aravosis' tactics or language in dealing with the Obama Administration, I do agree that it is important that concrete action be taken this year which will lead to end of this mindless and discriminatory policy which falsely claims that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service." MadProfessah.com joins the blogswarm!
OUR MESSAGE TO HRC IS SIMPLE:
Publicly demand that President Obama take the lead in getting DADT repealed this year.
1) That means the President needs to state publicly that he wants Congress to repeal DADT this year; and
2) The President needs to take the lead in working with Congress to make sure the repeal happens.
HRC Front Desk: (202) 628-4160
TTY: (202) 216-1572
Toll-Free: (800) 777-4723
HRC Web site comment page.
General membership email at hrc: membership@hrc.org
Some may say that there is little the President can do, or that this is up to Congress now. That is simply untrue. The President can send a powerful signal that he wants the repeal done this year. He can include the repeal of DADT in the Defense Budget he sends to Congress in the next few months. If the President is serious about keeping his promises to our community, now is his chance to prove it.
BLOG SWARM SPONSORS
Today's blog swarm is sponsored by the following bloggers and sites, all of which will also be writing about this issue today, and urging their readers to contact HRC:
Joe Sudbay and John Aravosis, AMERICAblog
Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend
Michelangelo Signorile, Sirius OutQ & the Gist
Markos Moulitsas, DailyKos
Andy Towle, TowleRoad
Joe Jervis, Joe My God
Bil Browning, Bilerico
Taylor Marsh, TaylorMarsh.com
Dan Savage, Slog
MOMENTUM HAS TURNED TO CONFUSION
HRC may argue that it's already told the President it would like to see DADT repealed this year. Well, that's not enough. And here's why.
We've had an amazing few weeks of momentum on DADT repeal following the mention of DADT in the State of the Union, the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing during which both the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs both stated their support for repeal, and the unexpected support we've received from former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powell and former Defense Secretary and Vice President Dick Cheney.
But that momentum is quickly slipping away. After talking to people around Washington over the past two weeks, Joe and I have found a vacuum of leadership that is leading to confusion. The Hill has no idea if the President does or doesn't want them to move ahead with repeal this year. The House has already said that it's waiting for the Senate to do something. The Senate is in turmoil after the Democrats lost a single seat in January. And the DADT proposals being discussed in the Senate are focused on every possible approachexcept full repeal this year.
As we painfully learned last year during health care reform, nothing happens in Congress unless the President leads. And when the President doesn't lead, disaster is guaranteed.
Whatever HRC has been telling the White House about DADT, it clearly isn't working. In spite of the President's positive comments during the State of the Union, no one knows where President Obama stands on repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" this year. All the while, unnamed administration officials are telling the media that itcould be years before repeal finally happens. The White House clearly didn't get HRC's message, and as a result, we are losing this historic momentum.
WHY HRC?
Why are we focusing on HRC? Because HRC is our community's largest, best-funded gay rights organization in Washington, and they carry the most sway with the White House. In fact, HRC often boasts about their close working relationship with the White House. HRC's President, Joe Solmonese, is so close to the White House that he gave the President political cover during the uproar over the administration's brief in support of DOMA. It's time HRC, and our entire community, got something in return for everything we have done for this President, this Congress, and the entire Democratic party.
CALL NOW!
BOOK REVIEW: Peter F. Hamilton's THE DREAMING VOID
Peter F. Hamilton's The Dreaming Void is the first book in the British hard sci-fi writer's new trilogy, which has been dubbed the Void Trilogy.Hamilton has been one of my favorite authors (not just my favorite genre author) for several years. I started with his classic work, the incredible Night's Dawn Trilogy (The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist and The Naked God) and continued with his Commonwealth Saga. (MadProfessah's reviews of Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained are also available.)
Like most of Hamilton's work, The Dreaming Void is a sprawling novel, with a huge cast of characters and numerous intersecting and separate plots. An interesting feature of this book, which repeats something he did in Fallen Dragon, is the inclusion of an entire storyline in which technology is not featured--it is a pretty straightforward individual hero fantasy; it even includes a star-crossed, teen romance. Peter Hamilton is known as a hard-core purveyor of the hardest military sci-fi space operas, so for him to devote a good third of his book to a fantasy is an intriguing blending of disparate genres.
It's an interesting choice, because most fans of one genre are not necessarily fans of the other genre (the only fantasy book I have read recently, for example is Patrick Rothfuss' excellent The Name of the Wind). It also works well, because the fantasy sequence, which is the story of Edeard, an orphaned country boy who becomes the fabled Waterwalker in the big city of Makkathran on the planet of Querencia, is excellent and gripping.
The hard sci-fi sequence, which tells the stories of how the Commonwealth has changed in the fifteen hundreds years since Judas Unchained and Pandora's Star is oddly not as compelling as the fantasy sections. It's not clear if this is because we have been exposed to most of these characters before (Paula Myo, Senator Justine Burnelli, Wilson Kime, Oscar Monroe et cetera) or if the changes that have occurred over time to the Commonwealth Universe are not as interesting as we would have expected.
I do think the conceit of how the two sequences are connected is interesting (what happens on Makkathran appears as what is known as Inigo's Dreams and is accessed by Commonwealth citizens through something called the Gaiafield, a Galaxy-wide network invented by Ozzie Isaacs (who previously co-invented wormhole travel technology) that allows humans to share emotions and thoughts. An entire religion has developed around Inigo's Dreams which it is believed must be emanating from The Void, a strange anomaly at the center of the Galaxy which frightens the Raiel, the incredibly powerful aliens from the earlier books.
How Hamilton manages to tie together all of these multiple threads is a gripping, somewhat exhausting tale which demonstrates that he is once again a master of the craft of compelling speculative fiction for an expanding audience.
Hardcover: 640 pages.
Publisher: Del Rey.
Date: March 25, 2008.
OVERALL GRADE: A/A-.
PLOT: A.
IMAGERY: A.
IMPACT: A-.
WRITING: A-.
Celebrity Friday: Serena Williams Speaks Out
Perez Hilton has the scoop on Serena Williams' statement on the record fine levied on her as a result of her profane outburst at the 2009 US Open.
Here it is, in its entirety:
Hey Guys!What do you think? I like her attempt to use the fine to raise money for her charitable causes. I still think that she should also use the attention on the fine to highlight the need for instant video replay on foot fault, double-bounce and "ball-touch" calls made by the umpires. There should be no call made by a human that is not verified by technology. I like the fact that she points out that the electronic line calling system we have today was a direct result of the egregious line call that she received against Jennifer Capriati and that "the powers that be" in tennis have never acknowledged that.
As the world seems to know or for those who don't I want to speak about my recently dubbed "outburst" and how I feel.
I have recently been fined by the Grand Slam Committee of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) over 82 thousand dollars for getting mad and using the "F-bomb" at a line Judge.
To clear things up FIRST I was NOT fined 82 thousand dollars. I was fined 92 thousand dollars! I paid 10 thousand dollars on site immediately after the U. S. Open. So for the record, I was fined $92,000 not $82,000! The biggest fine EVER in tennis.
Also for all those that don't know, I felt incredibly bad, and miserable for losing my cool, and most importantly not representing the person I really am spiritually and the role model I want to be to my young fans. I have been a very feisty player all my life, but when the time came for me to be calm and cool, I did not exercise a mild temper. How I regret not being a better role model and person to all of my fans. I apologized to my fans and even wrote a personal letter to the lines woman with my apologies. She understood as she often witnesses this as it is not uncommon in my sport, or any other sport. She was extremely supportive and said that she did not think any further actions should be taken against me.
A few years ago in a most important match being watched my millions; I was blatantly cheated and robbed of a US Open title by yet another official. I was again on the wrong side of not one or two, but several other bad calls. This incident however changed tennis. Because of what was incorrectly done to me, the whole sport of tennis adapted new technology for a player to challenge the calls lines persons make if the player feels they were wronged. I was expected to take solace in the fact even though I lost the U.S Open title (a dream I've been working for since I was 2 years old). At least others won't be wronged in the future. I am always happy for the next person. I always am. I received apologies from the USTA, the Lines Official, and the Head of the US Open. However I don't recall EVER receiving a note, a phone call, a letter even a text from anyone at the Grand Slam Committee ITF apologizing about the wrong and disastrous call one of THEIR officials made.
When I was a teenager I was booed by an entire packed stadium at Indian Wells. In my new book "On the line" I talk about how I remember crying on every changeover in the towel. Praying and wishing I could lose and the match would just be done with. When the match was over I thanked the crowd those that cheered for me, and even those that did not. Looking back I am still amazed how I remained so calm and positive, and even managed to come out on top.
The fact is every professional athlete gets wronged in one way or another. And every athlete gets upset. We have been working, sacrificing, missing out on numerous things, things we will never get back or experience for the sake of our careers. For the sake of that one moment in time where we have a chance to shine through.
Imagine for 20 years working day in, day out, sacrificing on countless things to get this job, that will make all your hard work and endless efforts worthwhile. Try to imagine having that promotion in one moment being taken away from you because of a slight over sight, by someone overseeing your work. 20 years gone away. Time to start over, dust yourself off and try again. You work harder make positive changes. It happens again.
"Dust yourself off" you say. "Try again"
You do just that. You work even harder than before, spend longer hours. Then it happens yet again. Another slight oversight.
Well this is what happened to me, and to be honest I believe I reached my boiling point. After yet ANOTHER wrong call I began to wonder- Was I being "overlooked" or wrongly judged on purpose!??? Is this being done to keep me from achieving my best? Why does this keep happening at the same place?
Throughout my career I have remained calm. But I guess I finally reached my breaking point. A point I should have never allowed myself to get to. Everything seemed to have surfaced. As you know, losing my cool cost me over 92 thousand dollars. 92 thousand dollars! This is more than most people make in a year. 92 thousand dollars! Answer this: Why is it another player who also lost HIS cool not to a line judge - like I did - but to the main officiating judge- using the same "f word" why was HE only fined 10 thousand dollars. Was what I did 10 times worse than what he did?!
There is another HE who was fined less than half of what I was fined after someone in his camp actually physically ATTACKED an official!!!!
What about the famous HE who made arguing with officials "cool". Cool for "MEN" I guess.
Is it because they are all HE's and not a SHE like me?
It is indeed a massive difference. Being American I guess the 1st amendment, freedom of speech, does not apply to a SHE in this case? In any event the Grand Slam Committee, ITF and its staff did not hesitate to call, send a note, text, nor write letters after this incident. Ironic is it not?
I don't mind being fined. If I did wrong I accept the repercussions. All I ask for is to be treated equal.
When I was fined the 92K, I asked to see if I could donate some of it to different schools, and programs I'm involved in. My request was denied. So, I decided to match the fine by raising money and donating an additional 92K to my 2nd school that I am opening up in Africa, as well as to schools that I am helping here in the United States. I also want to educate women about what I learned from this whole experience. How we as women are still treated as less than equal. I am going to turn this 92K into a positive!!! And I have decided to call it Serena's 92K mission!!! Go to Serenawilliams.com to learn more about my 92K mission.
Xxxx,
Serena Williams
Check out the Black Youth Project!
Checkout this new innovative new website to increase the diversity of voices in the blogosphere and online: The Black Youth Project.
From the website's about us page:
The Black Youth Project’s website is a cyber-resource center for black youth
and all those who are committed to enriching the lives of black youth. Within
the pages of this website, visitors can access research summaries, read blogs
about and by black youth, search an extensive rap database, access black youth
social justice organizations, and download social justice curricula to teach.
Arguably more than any other subgroup of Americans, African American youth
reflect the challenges of inclusion and empowerment in the post–civil rights
period as well as the challenges of web access and digital spaces to call their
own. Therefore, the intended purpose of this website is to generate new media
information, blogs, art, conversations, webinars, and data that will expand the
human and social capital of young African Americans, facilitating their geneal
empowerment through highlighting their voices and experiences.
The project is funded by the Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Chicago.
Support MadProfessah Advertiser ALAN GRAYSON's MONEY BOMB
Florida Congressman Alan Grayson scares the %$*^!! out of Republicans because he is an outspoken progressive who says out loud exactly what most of you are thinking.
Some choice quotes from Rep. Grayson:
"The Republican health care plan is this: 'Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.'"Because of this, Republicans have recruited a Latino Republican named Armando Gutierrez to run against Grayson and targeted him wth a website mycongressmanisnuts.com, which is a response to Grayson's congressmanwithguts.com.
"I have trouble listening to what [Dick Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth when he's talking."
Grayson says his re-election race in 2010 will probably cost $2 million dollars thanks to the national profile and the targeting that he will receive from the Republican National Committee.
Today Monday November 2nd Grayson is doing a money bomb where he is trying to raise four hundred thousand dollars online from progressives nationally. I am hoping that a significant number of MadProfessah readers will click on the Alan Grayson Money Bomb ad in the top right corner of this blog, and kick in $10 via Actblue. I'm hoping that we can raise $100 to support his moneybomb. Please click on the ad and donate now!
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