by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This month The Urbanite is running an issue on “Race”. I was asked by the editor to write about the phenomenon of “self-segregation”. So rather than pen a piece about black kids deciding to sit all by themselves, I took another approach. I...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
by admin | Jan 22, 2010 | NPR, Politics, The Mass Media |
John Edwards revealed that the affair with his campaign staffer Rielle Hunter produced a child, even as his wife was dying from cancer. Although a number of pundits and politicians are glad his political career is over, I’ve second thoughts. The tragedy in Haiti...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
Haiti is the first instance in the modern world of the enslaved taking their country back. And they’ve paid for it ever since. In talking about what’s going on in Haiti now, this is the SECOND thing that should be mentioned…as it provides context for...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Today the NYT ran a story reporting Harlem was no longer majority black. This news is important enough to cover…and particularly interesting given the fact that New York City is no longer majority white. But the reality is that the Harlem we carry in our head?...
by admin | Jan 4, 2010 | Marc Steiner Show, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
I knew Baltimore was the right place for me when a month into my time here I found out they had an annual book festival. I really knew it was the right place when I first appeared on the Marc Steiner Show. Baltimore is blessed with a few top notch...
by admin | Jan 3, 2010 | NPR, The Mass Media
Tell Me More had me on last week to talk about the top political stories of the decade. It went…ok. I wished I could’ve gotten another crack at some of the questions. Michele asked us which loss hit us hardest. As I’m thinking about it now, I realize...
by admin | Dec 24, 2009 | Uncategorized |
This is what my mission statement looked like for 2009: What do I want to get accomplished for 2009? I want to have two book contracts.—I got one book contract. I want to have three paid speaking engagements.—I got one speaking engagement, but I signed up...
by admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama |
One of my friends on facebook posted a brief snippet about Obama featuring Cornel West’s quote that he’d rather be in the crack house than the White House, accusing Obama of being at best oblivious to suffering and promoting neoliberal policies. I...
by admin | Dec 13, 2009 | Afrofuturism, things that make you go hmm |
This week I turned my manuscript into the publisher. Knock on wood what I have left now are the details. Line by line editing. Index generation. Fact checking. That type of thing. Which means that for the first time in several years I have to sit down and figure out...
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