The First Lady’s Weekly…and the President’s

Maybe you feel like no one has your back, like you’ve been let down by people so many times that you’ve stopped believing in yourself. Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams. — Michelle Obama, [...]

Tales from the Twit

Monday, 22 March 2010, 20:53 | Category : Books, Television, Youth
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Is Reading Rainbow really coming back?! [Tweet from host LeVar Burton.]

Eclectique News and the 200th post

Note: This is my 200th post. Just thought I’d share that. HEALTH CARE REFORM ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S WATCH See where the Obama administration is going with health care reform; submit your stories; read the reports. The healthreform.gov site is user friendly. President Obama will appear in Green Bay, Wisconsin today to discuss health care [...]

Random Eclectique News

I teared up myself when I saw this story on “Today.” Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy U.S. Unemployment hits 8.5% This number doesn’t include the under-employed, i.e. part-time workers, or the folks who’ve just given up. The National Endowment for the Arts releases their report on Artist Unemployment [...]

Telling Stories

Thursday, 12 March 2009, 8:17 | Category : DC, digital media, Movies, The Arts, web media, Youth
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Everybody’s got a story. About a week into living on planet earth, you can count yourself among the many who have a past. And definitely by the time you learn to talk, think, eat and sleep on your own watch, you’ve got a perspective. My friend Amy Hendrick, a talented photographer, cool person, and someone [...]