Welcome to a new feature here at LVS: The Brilliant Woman of the Week, where we celebrate outstanding women who have something important to say. With SO many brilliant women to choose from, where do I start? Well, I think I'll start here.....This week's BWOTW is Melissa Harris-Lacewell: Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. She is a regular commentator on the hugely popular Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. (My personal FAVE news show) And she has been on Bill Moyer's Journal. Melissa has a really cool blog called "THE KITCHEN TABLE" http://princetonprofs.blogspot.com/ where she converses with another brilliant woman, Dr. Yolanda Pierce, who is also a Princeton professor. Wow, I just mentioned three brilliant women in one paragraph, but let's focus on Melissa. ;D
Melissa is the author of an award winning book called "Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk, and Black Political Thought" I love the way she connects political ideology and popular culture. She taught a course called "Disaster, Race, and American Politics" which explored the politics of Hurricane Katrina. (Remember Katrina?) Her colleagues at Princeton have recognized her as " one of the most talented intellectuals of her generation." She's also a single mom to her 7 yr. old daughter.
She wrote this in the Nov 6, 2008 edition of The Nation:
"When Barack Obama was elected as the first black president of the United States, African-Americans became the solution instead of the problem. For many black folks, Obama's victory has momentarily healed the double consciousness that is an ordinary part of our lives. To be a citizen in a democracy is to be not only the ruled but also the ruler, to not only submit to law but to craft it, to not only die for your country but to live fully in it. In this moment, we are citizens."
Melissa is a brilliant communicator and scholar, and she seems to be a very down to earth person. I am looking forward to a new era of brilliant scholarly women taking the forefront in the mainstream media and beyond.
Here's a video:
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54 comments:
great 1st choice!
Thanks! Forgot to mention, Melissa is in her thirties! Quite a number of great accomplishments for such a young woman.
if she was my teacher I'd have a crush on her!
I would imagine Harris-Lacewell is an amazing teacher. She is truly brilliant and a great communicator.
(OT News Flash)
Readers, popular (59% Mandate!) Allentown Mayor Pawlowski's people just contacted our people (jealous?) Mayor Pawlowski's answers to Lehigh Valley Somebody's Reader Questions will be here "within 2-3 days," and we'll have 'em posted in a new post ASAP after we get 'em!
Melissa was on Rachel last nite! Mrs. Dottie, there you go again with that perfect timing! Congrats on the blog-exclusive Interview with Mayor Ed!
Merci.
Melissa Harris Lacewell spoke at Villanova on January 22, darn, we missed her. Was anyone who is reading this there? Would love a report....
Villas, CONGRATULATIONS, on being the #1 Most Influential Political Blog in Pennsylvania for the 2nd week in a row!
Thanks, it feels right, #1 ...
Villas, kudos on being The #1 Best in PA again this week.
Merci.
I find this thread refreshing. But I also find it insulting on two levels. One - there are so many brilliant women in the Lehigh Valley. Why did you have to choose one outside of the area? What does she have to do with the Lehigh Valley? And two - why is it only women? You protest The Morning Call regarding its intolerance towards all sorts of people. Where is yours? Why don't you have a thread regarding "A Brillant Minority of the Week."? Please let's have equality for all!
We'll get right on it :)
I second that!
Anon 10:25
I plan on featuring brilliant local women in future posts. And it's "only women" because that's what I want to write about. Thanks for your kind thoughts ;D
So you don't want equality for all? Or you don't like writing about equality for all? Where's your tolerance? You can dish it out, but you can't produce...
anonymous wink wink is accustomed to seeing his bully victims retire from blogging or start recipe blogs. you villas instead go to #1. very clever.
Okay, looks like we're starting to veer ever so slightly "OT" everybody, let's get back on topic, thanks ...
Hello, Dali! Thank you. And personally I like recipe blogs although I won't be starting one (or retiring from blogging) any time soon ;D
Ditto. I really like it at The Top.
Villas your the best blog-read on the worldwide interweb evry week and all the time, keep it coming.
Merci.
Re: Melissa Harris-Lacewell
She grew up in the Virginia cities of Charlottesville and Chester with a black father, the dean of Afro-American affairs at the University of Virginia; and a white mother, who taught at a community college and worked for nonprofits that helped poor communities. “I’ve never thought of myself as biracial,” Harris-Lacewell says. “I’m black.” But she has white siblings and black siblings (both her parents were previously married), and in the 1970s in the South, the family often was met by harsh and open racism, she says. -Wikipedia
Harris-Lacewell hasa really cute lisp.
Actually, I write a humor blog, unencumbered by any silliness about rankings or egotistical importance. Oh, and I don't trash anybody I disagree with. But that's just me, writing what I want to write. Wonderful thing, that freedom of expression, aint it!
"I write a humor blog" -CCasey
Yep, us too.
Villas, I love the humor at your blog! Part slapstick, part comeuppance, 100% hysterical! No wonder you two are "The Headliners."
Email sent to MCall, still no response. My condolensces to the Lehigh Vally Art world. I believe , per everyone in the blogosphere, a creative mind was lost, but she and her husband's legacy will live on thru those that were influenced by their work,
Alfonso Todd
"Email sent to MCall, still no response." -Alfonso T
Alfonso, I suggest we move forward ASAP with organizing an Advertiser (and Subscriber) Boycott of The Morning Call. Please email Angie your phone # (if we don't already have it) and I will phone you on Wednesday to get things in motion.
"My condolensces to the Lehigh Vally Art world. I believe , per everyone in the blogosphere, a creative mind was lost, but she and her husband's legacy will live on thru those that were influenced by their work" -Alfonso T
Indeed, and nothing can tarnish that ...
Worth Repeating Department:
I've been holding my tongue on this all week but I must speak out and its the Villa's example that gives me the courage to do so. On the subject of PHONIES, you got that right. The same guy (Molovinsky) who publishes all sorts of lies and bashes and smears against the Chen Arts Group and Angie Villa, has te nerve to show up at the Chen Arts blog commenting and making sexist remarks about a Chen member who died tragically recently. You have no class whatsoever Mike or brains.
http://chenarts.blogspot.com/2009/01/rest-in-peace-fran.html
JUst a few of Molovinsky's many published lies, smears and bashes against the Chen Arts Group (CHARGE) and Angie Villa that he has "approved of" at his moderated blog (but he thought the late FRan Weaver was hot!):
* inaugural meeting of the Chen arts group. During that one, A-town arts czar [Joe] Skrapits waxed on at length, saying absolutely nothing
* most of the [Chen] artists there seemed most concerned about getting grants
* grant-seeking Stepford wife Angie [Villa] is looking to parlay her Chen position into money
* After starting off with a bold counterculture vision, the Villas quickly embraced the A-town establishment, including government (Pawlowski) and business (Butz)
* the arts suffocate in that atmosphere. So why do it? Money baby. For all I know, they're [the Villas] trying to sell a few CDs along with Angie's junior high paintings
Readers, we got the comment below from "anonymous" at 3:19pm, Sunday, Feb 1.
It could be a "set-up" (we get "set-up" comments all the time from the Evil Allied Accomplice bloggers) but then again it could be genuine and since we do agree with the commenter, we'll take a chance and publish it, here goes ...
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Anonymous said...
A comment I just posted in AJ's Blob in response to AJ and MM carping about the Villas:
Amazing. It takes all of 10 seconds for you guys to start posting crap about Villa. Statuesque: "well proportioned and pleasing to the eye." It is a sexist remark. The sentiment was tarnished by its author.
Now something I didn't state:
MM is a sexist pig. To attempt to pay tribute to a woman's legacy by invoking memories of her "shapely figure" (another definition of statuesque) is worse than insensitive, it's telling a lot about the source. But that's the way it is when you live in Memory Lane. Stuck in the '60s.
Considering his "history" of allowing BO'Hare to bash the Chen Arts Group and the Villas at his "Memory Lane" blog, Molovinsky obviously came looking for premeditated trouble when he posted a comment at the Chen Arts blog.
Since then, Molovinsky has been using his "grief" (wink wink) as a weapon, teaming up with O'Hare, who obviously wrote the "set-up" comment that was posted here on FEB 1 at 3:19 so that they could re-print the comment (and attribute it to the Villas), at O'Hare's snake pit blog.
"Guys," you're not fooling anybody.
"so that they could re-print the comment (and attribute it to the Villas), at O'Hare's snake pit blog."
... where I see O'Hare proceeded to delete comments in support of the Villas and then "Disable" further comments and run for the hills wearing wet panties :)
"They can dish it out
But they can't take it."
"Molovinsky obviously came looking for premeditated trouble when he posted a comment at the Chen Arts blog."
Definitely.
Why didn't he do his "tribute" (wink wink) comment at his own comment-moderated "Memory Lane" blog?
What a phony.
villas on a related subject there was no blogger tuesday again yesterday well done
Merci, everybody.
Bill, keep in mind that Mike Molovinsky is elderly and also from a bygone era (Memory Lane?) when behavior that would now get a man charged with sexual harassment was routinely thought of (by men) as "compliments" towards women, e.g., "you should show off your figure around the office more sweetie, you're really built!" etc. Sadly, women had to endure these neanderthal males and their leering "compliments" in the "good old days" that Molovinsky is incessantly pining over and even more sadly in the present via anachronistic goof balls like Mike ("3%") Molovinsky. "Anonymous" (wink wink) O'Hare was right: Molovinsky is a sexist chauvinist and his "tribute" was anything but.
I second that, well said.
Exceptionally well stated.
The Blanker
This was a good post.
Merci.
looks like molovinsky retired from blogging. no new posts (i.e., trips down memory lane) in over a week. poof. that was easy.
maybe he has some recipes he'd like to share?
"They can dish it out
But they can't take it."
Oopsie you spoke too soon BV! Mike "3%" ("you really should show your figure off more sweetie") Molovinsky has a new "trip down Memory Lane" up today. How much you wanna bet this sole post of the week makes him #1 at BNN next week. It's a riot how you and Mrs. Dottie have Molovinsky and O'Hare trained to chase their own tails :)
Good catch, "Fly." And I'm flattered you think I am anon 8:57/8:59. I would be honored to be him
or her ...
Molovinsky has a new "trip down Memory Lane" up today
Looks like legitimate (and far more interesting) "memory lane master" Frank Whelan will be getting plagiarized a lot now that "3%" is stealing all his ideas...what a phony.
I noticed that too.
"It appears Der Fuhrer has successfully implanted chips in the "brains" of his current crop of Hitler Youth. Sadly, the young are sooo impressionable. And vulnerable. How creepy is this?"
Wow, this is really creepy. They are like The Stepford Kids.
Interesting....and I know for a fact that one of O'Hater's new recruits is a (presumably former) member of an activist Allentown arts group....who I PERSONALLY saw having FUN (at NIGHT!) at an event at 7th & Liberty streets in Downtown Allentown! Yessir. Curiously, this is not mentioned among the "no culture" slamfest happening at Bryan & Andrew KleinerWhiner's blog, under the tutelage of Bernie O'Hare and Allentown Mayoral Hopeful Mike ("3%") Molovinsky.
Wow. First thing that crossed my mind too.
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