This past week, this blog held two conversations with a ChatBot, the vanguard of supposedly all-knowing software which some believe is destined to soon take over our world and make many crucial functions (including blogging) unnecessary antiques.
Brief: More AFSC Fallout from Philly: USAToday & the New York Post have stories & videos up about the AFSC Fake DEI [Diversity, Equity & Invlusion] kerfuffle. They may only be online, but The NYPost has run 2 or 3 stories, and both “papers” have broad social media readership. There’s no news in these reports, … Continue reading AFSC Impostor Scandal Going National & Viral
The conflict in AFSC over disclosures about their Director of DEI continues. A Friday update to the blog post that broke this story is here: https://wp.m/p5FGIu-7t0
How novelist Zora Neale Hurston transformed American anthropology A 2025 documentary, “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming Space,” focuses on Hurston’s work as one of the country’s first Black woman ethnographers and filmmakers From The Washington Post By DeNeen L. Brown — January 17, 2023 In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston, who would become one of … Continue reading Black History Month Lives Here: Zora Neale Hurston: Pioneering Anthropologist & Author
[NOTE: Making, Un-making, and Re-making history: this piece has it all; plus two kinds of revolutionary art, personal achievement, bulletproof vests, and religion in action.] The Washington Post — January 2, 2023 White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it. Story by Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests … Continue reading Taking Down “Stonewall” Jackson & Robert E. Lee: A Saga of Now