Wikipedia talk:WikiProject African diaspora

Are African American women not important enough to have a list? Some say they aren't.

List of African American women was deleted because the list was too long, and other ridiculously invalid reasons. I took this to the deletion review at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_review/Log/2011_September_13 Please look through the AFD discussion and state your opinion if that was a valid reason to delete it. The List of Native American women that was previously deleted, was overturned today[1]. No reason not to have one for African American women also. Dream Focus 03:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Sources

Here is a source on American black families:

• Bullard, Robert D. "The Black Family: Housing Alternatives in the 80s." Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 14, No. 3, Mar., 1984

WhisperToMe (talk) 16:46, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest

WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.

One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to African-American history to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).

Any and all contributions appreciated.

Smallbones (talk) 15:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Theddis Roosevelt Coney, first black US marshall

Not sure if anybody's interested. But I found that Theddis Roosevelt Coney was the first black US marshal

• Bardwell, S.K. "The first black U.S. marshal is found dead." Houston Chronicle. Thursday January 7, 1999. A26.

WhisperToMe (talk) 05:49, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Featured article review for Rosa Parks

I have nominated Rosa Parks for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Brad (talk) 03:38, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Obituaries and African Americans

• Carlisle, John (DetroitBlogger John). "Last writes." November 16, 2011.
  • Woman quoted in the article says that obituaries are very important in African American culture. It may be possible that they aren't as important in White American culture.
• WhisperToMe (talk) 06:16, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

mischlingskinder

I found a CNN article about "mischlingskinder"

• "'Brown babies' long search for family, identity." CNN. November 20, 2011.
• It stated that many African American magazines like Jet and Ebony talked about the kids.

WhisperToMe (talk) 14:34, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

"If I were a Poor Black Kid"

There's a back and forth debate over a Forbes post:

• Marks, Gene. "If I Were A Poor Black Kid." Forbes. December 12, 2011.
• Thurston, Baratunde. "Letter from a poor black kid: Baratunde Thurston responds to Forbes' Gene Marks." CNN. December 14, 2011.
• Marks, Gene. "Forbes' 'If I were a poor black kid' writer Gene Marks responds to Baratunde Thurston." CNN. December 15, 2011.

And there are more responses:

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "A Muscular Empathy." The Atlantic. December 14, 2011.
• Hill, Kashmere. "Trolling The Internet With 'If I Were A Poor Black Kid'." Forbes. December 14, 2011.
• Jefferson, Cord. "An Ode to a 'Poor Black Kid' I Never Knew: How Forbes Gets Poverty Wrong." Good. December 13, 2011.
• Touré. "If I Were a Middle Class White Guy Writing About Being a Poor Black Kid." TIME. December 15, 2011.
• Virella, Kelly. "If I Were The Middle Class White Guy Gene Marks." Dominion of New York. December 13, 2011.

WhisperToMe (talk) 00:43, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Category:Black people?

Why is there no category to group together Category:African American people, Category:Black British people, Category:Black Canadian people, Category:Black Dutch people etc? 84.198.56.170 (talk) 11:37, 21 December 2011 (UTC)