The list of over 10 million from President Barack Obama’s campaign has already received the call to host Economic Recovery Plan meetings in their homes and communities. Go to this link: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/economicmeetings/. To review the $819 billion stimulus bill (H.R. 5140) passed by the [partisan] Congress this week, go to this link: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5140/show Since the [...]
Sunday February 1 will be Langston Hughes’s birthday. He would’ve been 107 years old. My how time flies. In The Big Sea, Langston articulated the real deal about Washington’s black bourgeoisie of the 1920s. The chapter is titled “Washington Society.” These upper class colored people consisted largely of government workers, professors and teachers, doctors, lawyers, [...]
The Root.com published my article about my failed documentary project today. Sort of like Spike Lee’s “The Messenger” story minus the crying in the bathtub. I was on a bench on the patio of the Hotel Nacional in Havana. Maybe I’ll do a serial online of the people I met and the places I visited. [...]
I love, love, love Asian cuisine. Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, Chinese preferably Sichuan. The first Sichuan dish I ever had was Kung Pao chicken. I thought my mouth was on fire. I was in love. I’m no expert or purist about Chinese food. I just like what I like. The tough part for me is [...]
Note: The recovery.gov site is still under construction as of 8:25 am this morning. OpenCongress’s blog has more information about the mandate for creating the site where everyone can get information and monitor government spending from the stimulus package. Update: I just checked back and now the recovery.gov site has posted this slide:
