by admin | Jul 7, 2007 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Some questions to chew on.When black students at the University of Michigan took over the school in ’69, ’77, and ’87, were they trying to end racism in the United States? Or were they trying to end racism at U of M?When Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat in...
by admin | Jul 2, 2007 | Announcements |
….but only for a couple of days. tafari, keith (and others who don’t blog but know me), hit me up. i’ll be taking pictures, visiting family, and hanging out with the ques. am hitting the road now.
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Lani Guinier wrote an article in the Journal of American History on Brown vs. Board. Up until this point the best critique I’d read about the NAACP strategy had been Harold Cruse’s Plural But Equal. But what Guinier’s article brings to light is the way that race and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Pop Culture, Urban Politics
I thought about this story reading today’s New York Times, which railed against the death of streetball. There are all types of street games we played when we were young–tag, frozen tag, hide and go seek, kickball, dodgeball, four square, two square, monkey in the...
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