Marian's Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-559622009-05-16T19:37:39-04:00THE MARIAN CHRONICLESTypePadThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site.Who is helping Detroit's change & rebirth? Maureen Taylor, MWRO, on Al Jazeera Newstag:typepad.com,2003:post-668725372009-05-16T19:37:39-04:002009-05-16T19:37:39-04:00Being from Detroit, don't you think entertainer Madonna Ciccone would do well to help her Afrodescendant friends and neighbours of her home region, rather than attempt to adopt more children away from the African continent?? Thanks to my friend MTC...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/05/who-is-helping-detroits-change-rebirth-maureen-taylor-mwro-on-al-jazeera-news.htmlFrom U.S. Homes to global financial disaster: Bloomberg's Weil scooped by nine yearstag:typepad.com,2003:post-661412732009-04-29T03:12:41-04:002009-04-29T03:12:41-04:00Jonathan Weil's 27 Apr 2009 Bloomberg.com column is "One Nation, Under Banks w/ Justice for No One." Here's a short url: http://ow.ly/4lg8. I'd wager that Mr. Weil, like most Americans (and almost everyone else), may be unaware of Atlanta Legal...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/04/from-us-homes-to-global-financial-disaster-bloombergs-weil-scooped-by-nine-years.htmlChecking in, and trying out Twittertag:typepad.com,2003:post-642888172009-03-17T21:16:59-04:002009-03-17T21:16:59-04:00Wow. I hope everyone's well! So much is going on, folks. (I don't have to tell you that.) Plenty to write about and just as much to do. I can't believe how TINY Typepad's interface is becoming. I don't know...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/03/checking-in-and-trying-out-twitter.htmlWill this ever stop? The propoganda since 2006, at leasttag:typepad.com,2003:post-616964822009-01-21T07:47:19-05:002009-01-21T07:47:19-05:00Enough already. As a Black woman whose U.S. family was enslaved in the USA, hearing solely people interviewed over and over, in every medium, talk about someone as though he were one of us, a slavery descendant -- as if...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/01/will-this-ever-stop-the-propoganda-since-2006-at-least.htmlDC Statehood Now for inauguration!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-616319482009-01-20T09:29:48-05:002009-01-20T09:29:48-05:00U.S. capital city Washington DC is the only place on the U.S. mainland that does not have representation in the U.S. Senate and House just like all other U.S. mainland citizens. Is it because we're mostly Black American and related...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/01/dc-statehood-now-signs-at-inauguration.html"We will bury you" - Old words, new context in a new centurytag:typepad.com,2003:post-615760582009-01-20T00:15:08-05:002009-01-20T00:15:08-05:00I remember a conversation last summer with a woman who told me she grew up in Czechoslovakia. It is now two countries: the Czech and Slovak republics. She grew up in Czechoslovakia before the end of the Communist system. She...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/01/we-will-bury-you-old-words-in-a-new-context-and-century.htmlGaza: Reading Robert Fisk on The Independent.co.uktag:typepad.com,2003:post-613470322009-01-14T12:43:18-05:002009-01-14T12:43:18-05:00Some readers of Marian's Blog may be aware that I'm a former journalist (and press secretary, etc.) myself. And yet, being briefly outside the United States, I am experiencing culture shock. In this case the shock is good, due to...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2009/01/gaza-reading-robert-fisk-on-the-independentcouk.htmlChicago 2008: Men, media, politics, and bread, with buttertag:typepad.com,2003:post-600298422008-12-15T08:24:14-05:002008-12-15T08:24:14-05:00Plans seem to be afoot, perhaps via Illinois' attorney general and state supreme court, to push defiant governor Rod Blagojevich from that state's administrative and political bus. Two other observations come to mind. I compare them to an elephant -...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2008/12/chicago-2008-me.html\Malik Rahim's Dec 6 New Orleans congressional race!tag:typepad.com,2003:post-587188742008-11-19T07:33:46-05:002008-11-19T07:33:46-05:00We just want to quickly alert readers and volunteers to Malik Rahim's campaign and the Vote Malik website. Please go there and contribute a bit of your time, talent and, for eligible donors, some cash! Every little bit helps. After...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2008/11/malik-rahims-de.htmlBBC snubs Cynthia McKinney: U.S. third-party candidatestag:typepad.com,2003:post-583929462008-11-12T06:58:41-05:002008-11-12T06:58:41-05:00The election may be over yet BBC has forever altered my perception of it as a relatively balanced source of international news. I was watching BBC TV News last Monday evening, Nov 3, as the announcer chirpily announced there actually...Marianhttp://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2008/11/bbc-snubs-cynth.html