Pamela Spaulding

I feel pretty earnest listening to these delegates

August 27, 2008 by Bitch PhD

I'm over at the Pepsi Center now, where one can experience both the spatial thrill of being in a place where major sporting events take place, if you get a thrill from that sort of thing (which I do) and the energy of delegates casting votes. It's cool.

Right before getting here, I was with LeBlanc at a "Taking Back the Courts" panel over at The Big Tent [confidential to The Big Tent: you might have better publicized that daytime panels and events didn't require the $100 pass] which included Christy Hardin Smith and Pamela Spaulding. I am sure LeBlanc is going to blog at more length (and with more professional expertise) about this, but I just wanted to note one quick thing.

Pam spoke about various issues at stake for the next administration's court appointees and touched on LGBT concerns, noting the inconsistency of rights people in the community enjoy around the country. "Our rights change from state to state," Pam said. Pam also notes that in many states, members of the LGBT community can have their children taken away. We must act to guard against, "the incredible damage that can be done to families," Pam urges.

A New Breed of Black Media on our way to the DNC Convention

August 24, 2008 by AfricanAmerican...

Yes, finally I'm on my way. I will be joining a hundred or so bloggers, including seven + African-American bloggers at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

Yes, Seven African-American bloggers representing varying views of the “Afrosphere” are gearing up for what promises to be an experience of a lifetime. But we are not traveling to Colorado with an entourage of producers or company vehicles filled with expensive equipment.

We are armed with only our laptops, Blackberrys and other electronic gadgets (I have a iphone courtesy of onecast.com) that can fit inside a single carry-on, 7+ African American bloggers are preparing to become the first group of black independent “credentialed journalist” bloggers to cover a major political party’s national convention.

While Black writers and reporters from Newsweek, CNN, or even minority media powerhouses such as Ebony or Black Entertainment Television will be present, what makes Pamela Spaulding, Baratunde Thurston, Oliver Willis, Gina McCauley, Liza Sabater, Shawn P. Williams, adrianne George and me different is we represent a new breed of “black media” that will be attending the 2008 Democratic National Convention August 25-28.