JSTOR Daily as the “Anti-Red Bull”
Contently reviewed JSTOR Daily’s growing success and readership and I am proud to be part of the team…
Contently reviewed JSTOR Daily’s growing success and readership and I am proud to be part of the team…
Having just finished teaching a seminar inspired by #TheFergusonSyllabus movement and momentum, I am thankful to Darnell L. Moore for pulling together these powerful readings, focusing on activists and scholars reacting to Mike Brown’s death in Ferguson last summer. Moore’s A Ferguson Syllabus: Reading a Movement is filled with wonderfully rich resources. In his own words: Names like #MikeBrown, #RekiaBoyd and […]
My reflections on Tupac’s life and legacy, as inspired by All Eyez on Me: the Writings of Tupac Shakur at the Grammy Museum, Los Angeles, now through January 2016.
An essay (of which I am particularly fond and proud) about the joys of cooking for Desert Jewels…
In 2014, I received a Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs grant to travel to Bali. During my arts residency at Yayasan Bali Purnati, I met and interviewed artists and began a series of writing about their work. Please explore this time and process with me in Kate Johnson and Michael Masucci’s video production, From Bali […]
Readers, you’re invited to… Los Angelenos at Yayasan Bali Purnati An afternoon tour of cultural exchange in Bali & Java with Ellen C. Caldwell and Sara Velas Saturday, June 28th, 2014 4-6 pm @ The Velaslavasay Panorama 1122 West 24th Street Los Angeles, California 90007 Reservations are not necessary for this free event. In February […]
So, I’m obsessing with this video Proud To Be. I showed it in my seminar a month ago, after the NFL wouldn’t air it during the Super Bowl and before it aired on TV during the NBA playoffs. In just two minutes, it successfully does what I try to do in at least four weeks of […]
LeVar Burton launched his Reading Rainbow Kickstarter yesterday, May 28th, hoping to collect $1 million in pledges to go towards relaunching and rebooting Reading Rainbow. In just 11 hours, he reached his goal and the pledges just keep coming. This video update at the million dollar marker is simply tear-worthy: Reading Rainbow Kickstarter reaches $1 million As a […]
In these days following the killings in Isla Vista, I’ve been in a bit of a fog trying to process the tremendous loss and complex implications of the shooter’s motivations and words. In this wake of bitterness, sorrow, and frustration, I felt an even greater, yet unrelated sadness when I heard that Dr. Maya Angelou […]