six degrees

So I’m reading Efrain’s Secret right now, and realized I need to follow up with Sofia Quintero about doing an interview…then I go to Facebook and Sofia’s posted two awesome links:

1.  My Brown Baby ~ author/mom Denene Millner asks why she can’t find books that feature black children on the shelves of her local Borders store…

…which, of course, made me think of Ari and her letter-writing campaign to get Borders to “act right.” Link #2 also had Ari’s name written all over it:

2.  Global Fusion Productions puts the focus on Tego Calderon and his determination to assert his African-ness as a Latino artist.

I’m always interested in learning more about Afro-Latino identities and communities, and sites like this make me realize that I have a lot of work to do…