Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-4-2009

[andrewducker]

• Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life
  Now hear's a touching story. Which shows that sometimes taking a chance on a person pays off massively.
  (tags: books library librarian education race history)
• Who Rules The Social Web?
  Facebook is 57% female, Myspace is 64% female.
  (tags: gender socialmedia facebook myspace flickr statistics)

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Frank Yerby was the first black person to write best-selling trash. No reason they shouldn't do it too.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

That is an excellent story about Olly Neal. There was a telling detail - "This story takes place before integration. All of the students and teachers were African-American." That is shocking - it really chills me.

[andrewducker]

I know! Julie frequently has shock moments because she grew up without any race riots, and with homophobia being something reasonably rare. Watching Mad Men has been an education, particularly for the treatment of women, Jews and Black people.