Getting to "The Root" of the Digital Divide

Those who know me well are VERY aware of my somewhat shameless enthusiasm about blog culture. So, when my favorite blog The Root (yes, I visit it daily), featured my book Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton, I was thrilled.

You know The Root, right? Editor in chief the now infamous Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, the online magazine launched by the Washington Post Company no-less, focusing on the many facets of black culture. Are you excited now?

<imagine crickets chirping>

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