by admin | Jul 14, 2007 | Democracy, Urban Politics |
This year represents the 40 year anniversary of the Newark and Detroit riots. Next year will be the 40 year anniversary for Baltimore. One of my former students forwarded me a discussion that relates to our discussions about the local and the global. Amy Goodman of...
by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Democracy, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeezIsTZ_o[/youtube] I’ve already linked to part of Bill Moyers’ interview with Grace Boggs. But the video expands on some of it, and emphasizes a couple of points that bear consistent repetition:1. We have to...
by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Urban Politics |
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/GM_kj4RD1_M” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]I was just asked to participate in a conference on the Baltimore riots of 68. Being more of a Detroit guy than a...
by admin | Jul 11, 2007 | Gender and Politics, Public Health, Public Policy |
I just received an email yesterday about Randy Parker, who committed suicide at the age of 23. Condolences go out to his mother, father, and extended family. While I maintain that we are and have been a resilient people, able to deal with a lot more (because...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Culture, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve been reading comics now for thirty years. Two of the first websites I read everyday are Comic Book Resources and Newsarama. Rich Johnston, one of their columnists has been writing a gossip column (“Lying in the Gutters”) of sorts,...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Just picked up this story about a minute ago. The “broken windows” strategy that Giuliani used in New York City to successfully harass and intimidate (largely black and Latino) working class New Yorkers had already been persuasively debunked. Even James Q....
by admin | Jul 7, 2007 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Some questions to chew on.When black students at the University of Michigan took over the school in ’69, ’77, and ’87, were they trying to end racism in the United States? Or were they trying to end racism at U of M?When Rosa Parks decided not to...
by admin | Jul 2, 2007 | Announcements |
….but only for a couple of days. tafari, keith (and others who don’t blog but know me), hit me up. i’ll be taking pictures, visiting family, and hanging out with the ques. am hitting the road now.
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Lani Guinier wrote an article in the Journal of American History on Brown vs. Board. Up until this point the best critique I’d read about the NAACP strategy had been Harold Cruse’s Plural But Equal. But what Guinier’s article brings to light is the...
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Pop Culture, Urban Politics
I thought about this story reading today’s New York Times, which railed against the death of streetball. There are all types of street games we played when we were young–tag, frozen tag, hide and go seek, kickball, dodgeball, four square, two square,...
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