by admin | Aug 14, 2007 | Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Glen Loury asks the provocative question Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? (thanks to Earl for the link) His answer for many of us isn’t surprising. The fact that he got there in the first place probably is surprising to some of us given his black...
by admin | Aug 13, 2007 | Urban Politics |
In the sixties, a series of flood walls and levees were created in Saint Louis in order to protect the region from the rising Mississippi River. In 1993 the river flooded in the worst US disaster of its kind. These walls and levees likely kept the damage from massive...
by admin | Aug 7, 2007 | Black Power, Racial Politics, Urban Politics
Given the last post, I ran across an article I thought folks might find interesting. Because many of us are so close to the events on the ground in places like Newark and Oakland we often miss the forest for the trees. This interview does a good job of setting the...
by admin | Aug 7, 2007 | Black Power, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
A couple of stories (one of which I got from Earl) coincided with a bit of a chapter I’m working on for my hip-hop book. Reading the stories is in some ways like being in a time warp. Going back to 1989 more specifically:...
by admin | Aug 6, 2007 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
So unless you’ve been living under a rock (or don’t read black news sources) you are familiar with the plight of the Jena Six. With the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton entering the fray it now appears as if this travesty of justice will get more media coverage,...
by admin | Aug 5, 2007 | Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
And gets bits right. But because they’re interested in dealing with intra-racial dynamics rather than inter-racial ones (which is odd given the subject) they miss the forest for the trees. They also put the tired bit in about successful black men “getting...
by admin | Aug 3, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
Traffic coming off I35 Bridge, looking South Originally uploaded by Mordac whose website can be found here. The recent problems in Minnesota, New York City, and according to Craig Nulan, Montreal, and Saint Louis, all reveal the growing problems in managing our...
by admin | Aug 3, 2007 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Urban Politics
I knew this was coming. Because we’ve been seeing this same pattern among black men. And what happens to us eventually trickles up, for good or ill. Note the last couple of paragraphs. Several experts also said that rising income for women might affect marriage...
by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
I’ve started a new photoblog over at Vox. My man George reminded me about the following video. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lxNAPqGDwCo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”...
by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
No joke. What jumps out to me was the fact that Henry Ford (and I’m assuming they mean the hospital) buys most of their stuff from local gardeners. I know that most urban folk have gotten out of the habit of growing their own food–and sometimes it’s...
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