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Are We Protecting Our Children When We Don’t Answer Their Questions?

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On October 8, 1955, Jackie Ormes’ Patty-Jo ’n’ Ginger panel in the Pittsburgh Courier showed Patty-Jo standing next to a door as she tells her sister, “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject . . . but, that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!” Ginger leans on a couch, looking at her younger sister. She hold a newspaper behind her back, hiding the … Read More Are We Protecting Our Children When We Don’t Answer Their Questions?

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+ a visitation of spirits, black panther, chadwick boseman, emmett till, jack kirby, jackie ormes, lillian e smith, martin luther king, jr, randall kenan

August 28, 2020

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On Saturday August 29, 2020, I awoke and checked my phone. The notification from one of the news services told me that Chadwick Boseman had passes away of cancer at the age of 43. In 2016, he was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. He did not speak publicly about the diagnosis, and over the course of the next four years he filmed various … Read More August 28, 2020

+ a raisin in the sun, adam conover, arthur miller, death of a salesman, f. scott fitzgerald, imani perry, jackie ormes, lorraine hansberry, nikole hannah-jones, patty-jo 'n' ginger, shelley v kraemer, the great gatsby

Lorraine Hansberry “A Raisin in the Sun” Lecture: Part II

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Last post, I wrote about the first part of my lecture for Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. I discussed the ways that I connected Hansberry’s play to the rest of the course, specifically to John Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. As well, I looked at the importance of Hansberry’s play … Read More Lorraine Hansberry “A Raisin in the Sun” Lecture: Part II

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Reflections on 2018

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Note, Interminable Rambling will be on break for the next two weeks. Check back on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, for new posts. I never really know what I have accomplished, or not accomplished, until I turn my gaze backward. Over the past year, a lot has happened. I moved to Norway, with my family, for a year. I’ve traveled more in the past few … Read More Reflections on 2018

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+ african american literature, american literature, comics, deborah whaley, house unamerican activities committee, jackie ormes, jackie robinson, joseph mccarthy, langston hughes, Literature, nancy goldstein, patty-jo 'n' ginger, paul robeson, pittsburgh courier

Jackie Ormes, the FBI, and “Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger”

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A few months ago, I wrote about Jackie Ormes’ Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger single panel gags that appeared in the Pittsburgh Courier. In preparation for a talk I am giving on comics and race, I started looking back at some of these panels and read Nancy Goldstein’s and Deborah Whaley’s discussions of Ormes and her various comic strips and panels. Today, I want to take … Read More Jackie Ormes, the FBI, and “Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger”

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