reading, writing, traveling, trying out new restaurants, listening to music, watching football (GO STEELERS!), volunteering, going to museums, participating in cultural events.
Mary, Mother of Jesus; Jesus, Buddha, Solomon, Nikki Giovanni; Oprah; Assata Shakur; my uncle Butch
Javier, John Legend, Talib Kweli, Common, Kanye West, Marc Broussard, Fall Out Boy, Frankie J, La 5ta Estacion, MDO, Juanes. I like most kinds of music, except heavy metal and country.
1. Akeelah and the Bee 2. City of God 3. Waiting to Exhale 4. Mermaids 5. What Dreams May Come 6. Love Jones 7. Matrix 8. Soul Food 9. Remember the Titans 10.Training Day
CSI: Las Vegas, Law and Order: SVU, Charmed, The Family Guy, The Simpsons
"In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Dubois "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
Angela Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Oprah, Minevera Mirabal and the Mirabal Sisters (Maria Teresa y Patria), my great-great-great Grandmother Amanda, cuz she was light enough to pass for white, but she didn't, she married her a dark southern Black man and they had a HUGE family:-), and my mommy and daddy:-)