Flatbadgers Flashbacks and Fascinations: It's just how we rolled in the 70's!

Flatbadgers Flashbacks and Fascinations: It's just how we rolled in the 70's!

TIME TO VOTE!

Here are the books, in alphabetical order; vote NOW for no more than THREE (3) books. We'll meet on Saturday, January 21 at UR, at 5 p.m., meet for no less than two hours, and then go hang out:

1. Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe

2. Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat

   
   

   Foxy: My Life in Three Acts - Pam Grier

   
   

   He Talk Like a White Boy - Joseph C. Phillips, Tavis Smiley

3. Michael Seth Starr, Black and Blue: the Redd Foxx Story

   
   

   Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet
   

   
   

   Jerald Walker, Street Shadows

4. Richard Wright, Black Boy

How the ANC Lost Its Way

I wanted to share this story with you about the ANC. At the back of my mind, there's always this troubling question.. when will we as black people be able to pull ourselves together and run / established governments without (corruption, violence and third world wars..)? A friend and I had a long discussion about our track records as Africans has been spotty (i.e. Haiti - Over a 100 years of independence, etc..,etc..) Now, I know there are many other factors that go into such matters, but when I'm looking at this from a high level it just begs the question.. can Africans govern a society? I know.. someone will retort with stories of great civilizations, but I'm talking about now.. 21st century. What are your thoughts?

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN

Happy New Year, gentlemen! Nominations are hereby open for our March, 2012 selection, for our March 17, 2012, meeting, 5 p.m. in Ryland Hall, room 500, at the University of Richmond. Nominated books should be MEMOIRS this time. You are free to nominate two (2) books. Nominations will stay open until Wednesday night. On Thursday and Friday we will vote on the nominated books.