by admin | Feb 18, 2007 | Neoliberalism
It’s been widely thought that the reason that HIV/AIDS was so hard to fight was that it morphed…changing shape in a way that prevented standard approaches to dealing with disease. As soon as you develop a method of dealing with one form, another form...
by admin | Feb 17, 2007 | Afrofuturism
So I’m watching Sweetback’s Badass Song for the Black Power Fantasies course I am co-teaching with Stanford Carpenter. What we don’t really have a handle on is how transformative the black power period was. There are a whole set of propositions that...
by admin | Feb 15, 2007 | Neoliberalism
I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while now. No time like the present: Compendium of Public Radio Podcasts –Access to over 900 public radio programs throughout the globe. 45 Free Cutting Edge Books–Many authors are starting to release...
by admin | Feb 13, 2007 | Hip-hop |
cobb book signing04.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. There are a whole range of works that deal with the politics of hip-hop. Given the freight placed on hip-hop as a social/political movement, this is understandable. Hell, I’m at work as we speak on my own...
by admin | Feb 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
I had the opportunity this weekend to meet a brother I’ve thought of as a friend for at least five years–Jelani Cobb. Jelani was in the area promoting his new book and I got a chance to kick it with him a bit. We got to talking about nationalism and...
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