Wednesday's Top 40

I can't say enough good things about Keith Boykin's "His Eye is on the Sparrow,"
bejata's "Lifted Up" or urban bohemian's "ain't but two of 'em straight and both of them ugly."
Black Hacker is probably the only black blogger who hates spam more than I do.
The Third Decade did exactly the right thing with "Racial Profiling E-mail."
Travels of the Fighting Kitten had a nice ol' bicycling, world jazzy weekend.
au lait is talking about good Kenyan loving and mourning the death of Sudanese vice president John Garang.
Ronn Taylor sees Harlem Book Fair interviews on C-SPAN (via e-drum).
Edwige of This Actually Happened goes traveling to Guatemala.
Margaret of It's My Place! hit three countries over the weekend.
The Moderate Republican's got a couple of posts worth reading.
The Black Star Journal's telling all who read him how to help anti-hunger efforts.
Black Feminism is thinking of different directions.
Honey Soul has an excellent interview with artist Gaelle.
Over at Devas T. Rants and Raves!, there is tragic news about Artist Greggy.
Amber Henshaw visits a fistula hospital in Addis Ababa.
Here's a great Donald Andrew Agarrat photo of Harlem artists (via bejata).
That Colored Fella had an unpleasant run-in with a driver.
John K. at J's Theater has thoughts on beauty, power and race.
I couldn't pass up Hip Hop Music's "The Fake Black Rock Manifesto."
Mixed Media Watch's "Are black women undesirable because they've been masculinized?" critically engages Debra Dickerson's Salon essay "I want you to want me: I laughed, I cried -- then I wondered: Why won't the 'Wedding Crashers' crash any sister's wedding?" and the ensuing flood of letters.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast does a fine job juggling grad-school and family commitments, representation and privacy, disclosure and introductions.
Miss World takes on Hong Kong with inimitable brio and panache.
The SPB Q has thoughts on why he began writing and who inspired him.
The Brutha Code courts controversy over the latest King magazine cover.
Old Gold Soul goes looking for Nell Carter.
posthipchick liveblogged BlogHer's "Brown Bloggers Go West" panel.
Booker Rising (rightly, of course) takes Black & Right "AOL's Dun Gone Hood" to task
Ethiopundit's got banners, banners, banners.
Anthropology of African Experiences asks "What shall I do now?"