Kenya Allmond (me)

Click To Play A bunch of folks watching Barack Obama’s victory speech at Art & Soul in Washington, DC.

He came out of nowhere.  He was a long shot.  Certainly I had heard of the freshman Senator from Illinois but why was he already running for President of the United States?  He hadn’t even been in the Senate that long and I knew nothing about him. It was going to be George Bush’s last [...]

Since I finally got PodPress up and running, I decided to share this February 11, 2007, recording from the Urban Film Series in Washington, DC. The theme of the series, We Remember, “speaks to how urban communities have been tremendously challenged. Our most critical need is to figure out how to grab hold of the [...]

Black Panther Recording 2/11/2007 [ 7:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Being from Virginia and living in Washington, DC for almost 7 years, I [...]

A few days ago I was looking at my RSS feeds in Google Reader. I have feeds for local news, tech news, blogs and so on. I have one particular feed that consists of search results for the name “Allmond” in recent news so I can post tidbits on my Allmond Family Online website. I [...]