by admin | Jan 24, 2011 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism |
The phrase “tiger mom” returns approximately 36,200,000 hits on Google. As the parent of five black children Amy Chua’s tale all too easily resonates with me. I remember with crystal clarity the moment we took our oldest son out of daycare several...
by admin | Jan 22, 2011 | Neoliberalism, Obama
Last week Obama named GE CEO Jeff Immelt to chair a new advisory council that will generate ideas that can jump start the economy. The council is heavy with corporate executives prompting concerns that Obama–particularly given his recent WSJ editorial–is...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Education, Gender and Politics |
Photo by EPIC FUWilliam Julius Wilson was one of the first social scientists doing work on race to connect the dying industrial economy to the growing number of single (black) mothers. So instead of pushing for more resources to single mothers, what does he do? Push...
by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | Urban Politics
Taking a break from writing, I found an interactive feature in the NYT today. A stunning series of portraits, the first sentence: Few American cities have suffered as acutely as Rockford, Ill., where unemployment reached nearly 16 percent last summer. This semester...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop, NPR, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
Photo by Sam HowzitIn December I had the chance to participate in a discussion about the future of Baltimore moderated by Dan Rodricks. The panelists included Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III (President of UMBC), Baltimore novelist Madison...
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