James Baldwin (1963) a social screening with E. Ethelbert Miller (October 13)

Thursday, 4 October 2012, 10:03 | Category : African American, Books, civil rights, Culture, LGBTQ, People, Politics, The Arts
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EXPERIENCE OVEE James Baldwin from “The Negro and the American Promise” (WGBH Archives, recorded 1963) Log on for a a live screening and chat with E. Ethelbert Miller on the literary and political activism of American novelist, essayist, playwright James Baldwin   Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 1- 2 PM (ET)  http://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/0kksw   VIDEO DESCRIPTION:James [...]

Eclectique Interview: Sarah Browning, Split This Rock Poetry Festival

It’s been awhile since the last Eclectique Interview. This will be the second interview with a poet. That’s Sarah Browning, director of D.C. Poets Against the War and Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Sarah is also author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the [...]

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is over

Tuesday, 20 September 2011, 10:32 | Category : LGBTQ, military
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President Bill Clinton’s compromise for LGBT persons serving in the armed forces has officially ended under President Barack Obama’s watch. For some reason, I don’t recall the word “cave” or “weak” splashed across the headlines when Clinton was tackling this issue back in ’93. Or maybe I wasn’t paying attention. Or maybe Al Gore hadn’t [...]

TV Worth Watching

Monday, 19 September 2011, 20:31 | Category : African American, civil rights, Culture, LGBTQ, San Francisco, The Media
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Tonight network and cable television launch the new fall season of comedies, dramas, and [faux] reality. I chose to go to the vault this evening and watch a documentary produced by “then” National Educational Television aka KQED, San Francisco’s public television station (PBS). “Take This Hammer” documents writer James Baldwin‘s visit to San Francisco. These [...]

Veterans Affairs: The President’s Weekly, the DADT Troop Survey

Sunday, 11 July 2010, 20:36 | Category : Barack Obama, Eclectique Citizen, LGBTQ, military, Politics, Women
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Over a year ago, I asked several women combat soldiers who appeared in the documentary “Lioness” whether they were able to sleep without medication since their tours of duty in Iraq. They all replied “no.” Some mentioned Benadryl as a sure thing sleep aid at least until veteran doctors prescribed another drug. A goodnight sleep [...]