by admin | Aug 1, 2007 | Announcements |
My wife asked me to do this sometime ago. These are really really random. 1. I rarely eat more than twice a day…most of the time only once. 2. I’ve played basketball at least twice a week for the last twenty years with the exception of spring/summer of...
by admin | Jul 30, 2007 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
IMG_0690_1.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. I visited Artscape, a local arts festival in Baltimore, for the first time. Got a chance to see an African drum/dance troupe perform. The brother in this picture was one of the oldest brothers there, and required a seat...
by admin | Jul 27, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Culture, Pop Culture |
One of the issues that I’m currently trying to work my way through deals with the politics of black cultural production. More specifically what happens to genres like rap, techno, house, as they move across space and time? To an extent this relates to issues of...
by admin | Jul 24, 2007 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This video below is extra hot. Thanks to All Tayo for the link. On an unrelated note, check out The Shawn Mason Spence show where the topic of the day is black women in the entertainment industry. We know of the men, but where are the deal-making, business-moving...
by admin | Jul 24, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media
It isn’t that hard to think about how the prison industrial complex influences people who are caught up in it. Mothers and fathers have to pay massive loot to talk to their kids in jail, to even get to the prisons in some cases. Jails themselves are focused much...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Education, Pop Culture, The Mass Media
Tonight my wife will be hosting a show on education: Education is being talked about across the nation, but who’s doing anything about failing school, bureaucratic mismanagement, and outdated curricula and materials? Our guests, Tonya Allen of the Skillman...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
(as an aside, why has my traffic relatively blown up off of the Jamal Bryant Empowerment Temple stuff? all i did was point folks to the site….interesting.) This global vs. local thing I’ve been working through has led to a few spinoffs that I think people...
by admin | Jul 20, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, NPR, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This week’s barbershop segment came out today. On the docket? We talked about immigration policy, about Michael Vick’s legal troubles, and we talked about John Edwards’ campaign and his anti-poverty platform. Makes for interesting...
by admin | Jul 19, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Politics
Earlier, I had some strong criticisms of Obama. I didn’t really care about the “he ain’t black” stuff–that’s for the birds. Today I was taping for The Barbershop, and one of the bits was about Johns Edwards’ poverty tour. I...
by admin | Jul 18, 2007 | Public Policy, Urban Politics
The Rat-Proof Fence.More rats. (slightly tongue in cheek this time.)
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