Last year, N’DIGO featured Chicago author I’deyah Ricketts as our January 27, 2011 cover story. Just eight-years-old at the time, Ideyah’s love for writing, curating story ideas, and ultimately authoring them won her a feature as one of the youngest people to appear on CBS’s popular Someone You Should Know news segment. With the [...]

By Tony Lindsay Sister Citizen:  Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America By Melissa V. Harris-Perry Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2011, $20 (Cloth) A reader of Melissa Harris-Perry’s Sister Citizen may ask what could Michelle Obama, Mammy, Sapphire, Jezebel, a crooked room, and the persona of a strong Black woman all have [...]

  The feeling of lonely causes a disturbance in the mental psyche and begins to paralyze one’s ability to navigate in the outside world and even understand one’s self. But what’s unknown at times is that cause of lonely – that inner-voice trapping you and keeping you in touch with your past – a past [...]

  By Tony Lindsay  The History of White People  By Nell Irvin Painter W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2010, $17.95 (Cloth).   The History of White People is too simplistic a title for Nell Irvin Painter’s work. What she has accomplished with this history is an all-out attack on the American race theory and [...]