by Lise Funderburg | Dec 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yellow fever shot. Check. Voltage transformer. Check. $100 bills post-2003. Check. Deet for day-biting mosquitoes that transmit Dengue Fever. Check. Appetite for Tej. Check. Duplicate passport-sized photos for visa to be secured at Bole Airport. Check. Practice using...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
Host Farai Chideya had me on today’s show to talk about race in the age of Obama. Click here to hear the segment.
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 12, 2008 | Uncategorized, Word Up
This meditation on race was originally published in Breathe magazine in 2005, but it seems to fit with at least one stream of post-election dialogue. I have a white mother and a black father. In most contexts, the white part announces itself to the world first. But I...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
Yes, I cried in the voting booth on Tuesday, thinking of my father, recently passed, who would have rejoiced to see this day. Thinking about my grandfather, who, at great personal peril, registered his neighbors on Colored Folks Hill, in rural Jasper County, Georgia,...
