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Blogging While Brown (and Female)

By Kristal Brent Zook, Women's Media Center. Posted July 12, 2008 on AlterNet

The Internet is helping women bloggers of color get their messages out without having to first get approval through a male power structure.

"People consider me the 411 on what goes wrong with black women in America," says Gina McCauley, founder of www.whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com.

The attention started about a year ago, when McCauley, an Austin, Texas, personal injury attorney, was compelled to respond to the demeaning characterizations of black women that she saw making headlines. (...)

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