Voting Rights for DC Around the Corner?

by | Mar 23, 2007 | Politics | 1 comment

I’ve been remiss in not following this story. For the uninformed, because DC is a District, rather than a state, it does not have full representation in either the House or the Senate. In fact, until the early seventies DC didn’t even have a mayor and...

Consumer Branding and the Black Body

by | Mar 22, 2007 | Afrofuturism

I’ve long been interested in the power of branding. In how our bodies are used by corporations to advertise products and lifestyles along with them. In how we sometimes use branding and flip the meanings–one of the reasons that University of Michigan...

Heated Words for Al Gore on Environment

by | Mar 22, 2007 | The Mass Media

At least that is what you’d think reading today’s Washington Post article, depicting Al Gore’s appearance before the House and Senate. Gore in town to discuss global warming has become something of a media darling since his documentary An...

The sad case of Jeff Deskovic

by | Mar 19, 2007 | Racial Politics | 3 comments

We’ve all read stories about people who were freed from prison after DNA evidence exonorated them. Jeffrey Deskovic is one of those cases.  Convicted as a teenager for a murder he did not commit, even when evidence in the case should have tossed it out,...