by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
When Obama got elected a couple of researchers conducted an experiment to see if Obama’s election would have any tangible effect on the racial achievement gap. The logic was there…there’s this thing called “stereotype threat” that causes...
by admin | Oct 6, 2009 | Neoliberalism |
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6803752[/vimeo] Not exactly….but close enough. How is this replicated and reproduced within black politics? That’s the question the second part of my trilogy will answer. Expect it about 2011/2012. When the world (according to the...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over the summer the White House cut their funding to HBCUs $85 million. While they argued in response that they’ve indirectly increased aid to HBCUs alumni and concerned citizens are up in arms. Earlier today I had a discussion with a friend who detailed to me a...
by admin | Sep 2, 2009 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Public Health, Public Policy |
California Nurses Association For Immediate Release September 2, 2009 Contact: Charles Idelson 510-273-2246, Shum Preston 510-273-2276, or Liz Jacobs 510-273-2232 More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a...
by admin | Jul 30, 2009 | NPR, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
I was on Tell Me More last week talking Michael Vick and Cat Fancy, Obama’s Health Care plan, and of course the Gates stuff. Take a listen (and now read the transcript!) here. Some of the best stuff didn’t make it to the final cut–I think this is one...
by admin | Jul 24, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Education |
…isn’t that a black Harvard professor was arrested by police. The real story–one that you won’t see on Anderson Cooper 360–is that Harvard is going broke. (Thanks Farai for dropping it on me.) Quick college finance 101–colleges and...
by admin | Jul 23, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Yesterday I dealt with the flashpoint occasion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest and spent most of it recounting a situation that happened to me at the beginning of the last school year. Like Gates I was caught in a narrative I couldn’t get out of. It...
by admin | Jul 22, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education |
In 1991 Lawrence Kasdan directed the film Grand Canyon, starring Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Mary McDonnell, and Mary Louise-Parker. Set in Los Angeles, the film traces the way a series of disconnected events ultimately connect and to a certain extent...
by admin | Jul 21, 2009 | Racial Politics |
Connecting the dots: Henry Louis Gates arrested for breaking in his own home. Comic veteran Dwayne McDuffie pitching a DC comic featuring black characters. Ta-Nehisi riffing on the “I’m not a racist but…” canard. Now all stories are worth...
by admin | Jul 20, 2009 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media
Today is the 40th Anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s historic walk on the moon. Although I grew up wanting to be an astronaut, and am even now a card carrying Afrofuturist, I thought I’d commemorate the event by way of an old school Heron track. Unlike Heron...
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