by admin | Mar 27, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, Urban Politics
What Tami Said.
by admin | Mar 24, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Black power is dead.
by admin | Mar 22, 2008 | Announcements, The Mass Media |
Minister Faust is an sf writer, a Pan-Africanist public intellectual, and a thinker deeply immersed in both the wisdom of the Ancients and the geo-political realities of the present day. And if it sounds like homeboy is from Detroit (or maybe brooklyn), you’re...
by admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Culture, Democracy, NPR, Obama, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
After a bit of a hiatus I was back on the barbershop doing the thing. Among the topics of discussion were Obama’s speech, Kilpatrick’s chances in Detroit, and the LeBron James Vogue cover with Gisele.
by admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media |
One of my colleagues (Adolph Reed) called Obama’s speech The Philadelphia Compromise, tying it to Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. One of my friends argued that he gave a “placating speech.” I’d like to see Reed’s...
by admin | Mar 17, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
Everything has fallen apart — all his dreams, all his plans. He doesn’t have a job, and he’s three months behind on his bills, and he’s afraid of losing his house, and he can’t find any work, and he doesn’t feel like a man anymore,...
by admin | Mar 13, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBXD2zizIY[/youtube]
by admin | Mar 6, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
From David Simon (creator of The Wire): “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right,” wrote Thomas Paine when he called for civil disobedience against monarchy — the flawed national policy of his day. In a...
by admin | Mar 5, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics |
….but back enough to urge Obama supporters to check out this article. I’ve noted before that I don’t plan on voting for Clinton because her politics are too conservative. This was before she began to race bait Obama. I’m even less sure about...
by admin | Feb 27, 2008 | Announcements |
For those interested I will be giving a talk on Race and the 2008 Presidential Election tomorrow evening (6pm) at Occidental College. On Friday I will be giving a talk on my own research on HIV/AIDS and African American Public Opinion on Friday afternoon at UCLA. The...
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