Go there, and you'll see recent stories of mine about people in Jackson, WY, coming together to talk about immigration; communities in North Carolina working to help students succeed; and an organization in Syracuse marking one full decade of efforts to combat racism in Central New York. In other words, there's rich documentation of local dialogues happening around some of our thorniest issues.

SCRC currently has no blog of its own. There's talk of adding one, but - because of my experience on the political side of things - I've suggested that SCRC and the communities we work with might be better served by using existing blogs - including public policy blogs like Kos and My DD - to help spread these stories.

Given the low readership of most blogs, I think the key toward a more diverse blogosphere is to get more diverse voices on the well-read blogs.  (I just surfed over to HuffPo and see that 11 of the 12 current featured posts are by white folks, mostly guys.)

The other part of the picture is lifting up blogs written by people of color and trying to drive more eyeballs to their sites. Here are two I like:

http://www.thesuperspade.com/

http://lareinacobre.blogspot.com/ (presently inactive, it seems, but there's some beautiful writing on there ...)

The whole deal behind study circles (and the larger democratic governance movement) is that the more diverse voices we can bring together to work on an issue, the better conclusions we'll get.  For the same reason, diversity in the blogosphere isn't a luxury - it's essential.

I'll end this by asking: What blogs do you like that are written by people of color, or other folks whose views are underrepresented in the blogosphere?