by admin | Nov 16, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
Usually on a miserable day like today I rely on self-medication. Like I did yesterday. But that alone isn’t cutting it, particularly after I just got back from talking about the devastating effect that the prison industrial complex is having on urban centers...
by admin | Nov 15, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
I’ve been reading Mat Johnson’s blog Niggerati.com since Tayari hipped me to it. In a recent post he tests whether Black Lit is for White People by looking at the type of black literature given prominent awards by mainstream literature critics. I’d...
by admin | Nov 13, 2006 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
even in the worse ways. part of me–the democratic theorist and actor–understands that part of my mission is to expand the ability of folks to speak their “special” truth, even when that “special” is “special” as in...
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Announcements |
Ed Bradley died two days ago of leukemia. In writing about him, Wil Haygood used the quote I cite above. There’s a certain type of gaze that comes with living life as a black man. Unless you’re in a city like Detroit, there’s never a time you...
by admin | Nov 10, 2006 | Democracy, Politics, Racial Politics |
In no particular order: Blacks will support black Republican candidates under certain conditions Blacks gave Steele in Maryland 30% of their vote.  Three times more than the black average. The reason support for black republican candidates hasn’t been...
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