I haven’t had time to really dig my heels into the controversy over Elle magazine’s alleged lightning of Gabby Sidibe’s skin for the October cover, given the potential coup d’état in Delaware and Plenary’s mad dash efforts to get LaTonya Jones’s Southern Discomfort to print, but the following headline for Allison Samuels’s article in Newsweek caught my attention: Gabby Sidibe: [...]
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Running For Cover
Posted by Tieffa Harper on September 23, 2010
http://plenaryreview.com/2010/09/23/running-for-cover/
The First Lady Is The Most Fascinating Person of 2009
Babs just announced First Lady Michelle Obama as the most fascinating person of 2009. Of course, the list includes Glenn Beck and Kate Gosselin, but I agree 100%. Some folks say the First Lady’s gone from an Ivy-League educated lawyer to the First Lady of Fashion - arm candy that should take on more issues - but I wholeheartedly disagree. [...]
Posted by Tieffa Harper on December 10, 2009
http://plenaryreview.com/2009/12/10/the-first-lady-is-the-most-fascinating-person-of-2009/
Follow Us on Twitta!
We’re officially on the Twitter bandwagon. Follow me, Plenary Publishing and our newly signed authors as we twit our way to our 2010 list. Plenary Publishing Tieffa Harper Cheri Paris Edwards Brian Rhinehardt LaTonya Jones
Posted by Tieffa Harper on June 29, 2009
http://plenaryreview.com/2009/06/29/follow-us-on-twitta/
Worth Reading: Don’t Hold Obama To Race Agenda
A couple of weeks ago, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton, commented on the crisis of the black public intellectual in the age of Obama. And she put it down. In her piece, Harris-Lacewell takes to task what she calls the “soul patrol,” the group of black, male intellectuals (Tavis Smiley, Dr. Cornell West, [...]
Posted by Tieffa Harper on June 17, 2009
http://plenaryreview.com/2009/06/17/worth-reading-dont-hold-obama-to-race-agenda/
Worth Reading
This weekend, I came across a great Washington Post article on Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (a major accomplishment in and of itself), and her unlikely friendship with US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, after he telephoned her to offer support when she faced political attacks in the ’90s : Many years after [...]
Posted by Tieffa Harper on May 11, 2009
http://plenaryreview.com/2009/05/11/worth-reading/
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