E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist. He is the board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He is a board member of The Writer’s Center and editor of Poet Lore magazine. Since 1974, he has been the director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. Mr. Miller is the former chair of the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. and a former core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Continue reading
On urythang, this feels like waiting to open the new shoes you know you’re getting for Christmas. This Tuesday is the premier of “Upper Room Tuesdays” at Twelve Restaurant and lounge! Thank you 
This is the last night the Upper Room will be hosted downstairs in the lounge at Twelve Restaurant & Lounge. I will be the final feature before we literally take it to The Upper Room. Join me and Mark “The Professor” Hatcher and Wanda McDonald and we do a guitar and vocals set of some of my favorite joints on the Circumlocution Vol II project. This is where you go to experience the upper echelon of food, drink and entertainment in Washington DC. Located in the historic H Street corridor, The Upper is is the perfect evening out with guests for fine dining and a tasty helping of DC’s finest artist. This week is our last occupying the downstairs bar area with DJ Live Wyah and special guest every night. Shout out to Juno Brown, Patrick Washington and Javier Starks for being our guests artists the last few weeks. 
Freethought Blogs- The TED talk they won’t show May 18, 2012TED talks are well known to policy wonks and geeks. I find many of them quite interesting and have linked to them. But while many people know of them, not so many know that the audience at TED conferences tend to be the well-heeled because it is for members only and the cost of attending [...]...Mano Singham
- How the Courts Have Undermined Gitmo Rulings May 18, 2012I interviewed Daphne Eviatar for my radio show this week. Daphne is a former AINN colleague who is now an attorney with Human Rights First specializing in law and national security. We talked about the military commissions that have restarted at Gitmo and about what the courts have been doing with the issue over the [...]...Ed Brayton
- Another Man Must Hide from Iranian Barbarism May 18, 2012Apparently Salman Rushdie’s novels aren’t the only thing that makes the Iranian ayatollahs into a homicidal rage; they’ve issued yet another fatwa calling for murder, this time of an Iranian rapper, now living in Germany, who released a song critical of the government. Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi expected his song calling on a Shiite saint […]Ed Brayton
- My time has come! May 18, 2012Now is the moment we’ve been waiting for, my lovelies! Castle Pharyngula has been unwittingly left empty and without guard! I’m about to fly off to the Imagine No Religion 2 conference (hashtag: #INR2), and my daughter Skatje is on her way to the Women in Secularism (hashtag: #WISCFI) conference — there’s lots happening this [...]...JT Eberhard
- Batman: Everything Old Is New Again May 18, 2012An unofficial trailer for the new Batman movie tells me what they've all been missing....Stephanie Zvan
- The TED talk they won’t show May 18, 2012
