by admin | Nov 18, 2007 | Black Family, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Democracy, Racial Politics |
The first actually isn’t against black people as much as it is part of a long standing attempt to revise the historical record with Reagan. Lou Cannon, David Brooks, and a couple of others have attempted this mission. This is part of a much longer legacy and can...
by admin | Nov 16, 2007 | Black Family |
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by admin | Nov 9, 2007 | Announcements, Black Family |
Wisdom Originally uploaded by Lester Spence. I received somewhere around 50 responses, and this is the result. There were a couple I wasn’t able to add because they slipped under the radar…and in one case I couldn’t add a hyperlink. Everything else...
by admin | Oct 31, 2007 | Announcements, Black Family |
My daughter turns 13 next week. A teenager. What my wife and I are interested in doing is building a “wall of wisdom”. A collection of ideas and sayings from people we’ve come across in our physical and virtual sojourn. If you could tell a teenager...
by admin | Oct 29, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…and Baltimore is the Detroit of the East Coast, which is why I like it here so much. Knuckle Sandwich brought to light the recent history of homicides in Oakland, pointing to a San Francisco Chronicle series on the murders. What was most interesting to me was...
by admin | Oct 24, 2007 | Black Family |
Carrie Spence (1920-2007) Isaiah Spence (1921-1983) Originally uploaded by Lester Spence. My grandmother passed away last week. She was 87 and had more than a good life. There are a couple of folks who have been using Flickr as a historical repository for photographs...
by admin | Oct 22, 2007 | Urban Politics |
Things are looking up Originally uploaded by Lester Spence. I’m in Detroit for a few days. My grandmother passed away late last week (she was 87) and I’m in town for the funeral with the family. For those who routinely read this blog FROM detroit I...
by admin | Oct 16, 2007 | Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm
The video below is by Bakar, the same artist responsible for Les Gens Comme Eux (People Like Them). The French immigration narrative is an interesting one for a number of reasons. When France lost over 2 million citizens to WWI and WWII French officials felt the best...
by admin | Oct 15, 2007 | Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
Diam’s is one of France’s best MCs. Marine? The daughter of FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen [kml_flashembed movie=”http://youtube.com/v/AR0WwU4LvVM” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
by admin | Oct 15, 2007 | History |
Phi Chapter 1922 Originally uploaded by Unbowed. I received this picture from one of my younger Chapter Brothers. What stands out about this picture are three things. The first is that I’m pretty sure that the Brother in the bottom right corner was my Uncle Kay....
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