by kspence | Jan 17, 2012 | Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism |
Late last year Jared Ball, Darius Wilmore, Lawrence Grandpre, Zeke Berzoff, Chris Baron, and I founded the Baltimore Mixtape Project as a vehicle with which we could both help produce and disseminate politically progressive hip-hop. We've gotten a lot of positive...
by kspence | Jan 16, 2012 | Black Politics, Neoliberalism |
I got into a brief argument with Cornel West in Seattle over Labor Day Weekend, over his argument that MLK would want a revolution rather than a memorial. I made two points: The first is that King is dead. He was assassinated 44 years ago. And if he were...
by kspence | Dec 16, 2011 | Black Leadership, Democracy |
Ben Chavis, former National Director of the Million Man March, and current CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network held a press conference announcing "Occupy the Dream" designed to create a bridge between the Occupy Movement and African...
by kspence | Dec 13, 2011 | Democracy, Neoliberalism |
At approximately 4am on Tuesday morning (December 13, 2011) riot police forced members of Occupy Baltimore to leave McKeldin Square. No one was arrested, and there was no violence. In a statement, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake affirmed the right of individuals to...
by kspence | Dec 13, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City
As we enter the second season of the nascent Occupation movement police have responded viciously. To loosely quote Stuart Hall, “the Empire strikes back.” At UC Davis, police officers sprayed protestors with pepper spray. In a video making the...
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