by admin | Jun 24, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I read Octavia Butler’s last book, Fledgling. I’ve talked about what Butler meant to me as an Afrofuturist. On one level Fledgling is a very simple book, attempting to answer a series of very simple questions. Reading it I can see the gears turning in...
by admin | Jun 21, 2006 | Hip-hop |
Over the weekend I had a chance to read Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins. Probably the best book of its kind in the field. It was a little formulaic in places–in order to flesh out the narrative Watkins presents brief bios of important figures in rap, and...
by admin | Jun 19, 2006 | Announcements, Black Family
I took the post below and snatched it from my old haunts. I remember the first time I heard “Song for My Father” by Horace Silver. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. My grandfather played it, and other old school classics, religiously. We...
by admin | Jun 18, 2006 | Black Family, NPR, Public Health, The Mass Media |
Around Mother’s Day a group publishes a report on the State of the World’s Moms. The United States didn’t fare too well. My latest commentary on NPR looks at how these numbers jibe with the supposed “culture of life” that Bush supports....
by admin | Jun 18, 2006 | Announcements |
I changed my CMS from Geeklog to WordPress after much deliberation. I wanted a cleaner look, and I also wanted to be able to use tags to organize my blog entries. WordPress offers both, plus literally hundreds of plugins and themes. My wife’s blog was probably...
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