by admin | May 19, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City |
That’s all I want to know. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74cO9X4NMb4[/youtube]
by admin | May 9, 2009 | Afrofuturism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Dave Bing was elected to fulfill the remaining year or so of Kwame Kilpatrick’s turn. For many this represents a turn for the better, given not only the competition (Ken Cockrel Jr.), but given other recent choices (Martha Reeves, Monica Conyers, Kwame...
by admin | May 5, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
“It’s kind of dehumanizing,” Mr. Brewster-Streeks said of the experience. “They see you as a certain kind of person. We’ve never been that certain kind of person.” via More Middle-Class New Yorkers Fall Behind on Rent and Face Eviction – NYTimes.com. So what...
by admin | May 4, 2009 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Marc Steiner Show, Obama |
I was on the Marc Steiner Show talking about Obama’s first 100 days. In part because of this piece Marc thought I’d be more sympathetic to Obama than I was. But just because I froze my butt off seeing Obama get inaugurated doesn’t mean I’m...
by admin | Apr 19, 2009 | Education, History |
(editor’s note: I wrote the original version on April 19, 2009.) On April 18, 1989, twenty years and one day ago I became a member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the first black fraternity established at a historically black college (Howard), having pledged at one of...
by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Apr 13, 2009 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve already mentioned this on facebook, but my book Stare in the Darkness: Rap, Hip-hop, and Black Politics has been accepted for publication by the University of Minnesota Press. I plan to rewrite portions of it, to turn it in by August, for August 2010...
by admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
The Urban League recently released a report on the state of black America. With unemployment at 22% in Black America alone, do you really need to know what that report said? For historian Jelani Cobb, this calls for a treatment of the old Booker T. Washington vs....
by admin | Apr 2, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Neoliberalism, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
A few weeks ago the Seattle Post-Intelligencer dropped regular service and went online. Last week the Ann Arbor News–the newspaper that gave me my first paid journalism gig–gave notice that it was following suit. Today both Detroit newspapers cut their...
by admin | Mar 30, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
David Sirota asks this question. If Wagoner from GM gets the axe from Obama why not the bankers? Simple answer really. Marx had it all wrong when he put “capital” in one bag. The truth is that “capital” should really be thought of as...
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