by admin | Mar 13, 2007 | Neoliberalism
Over at Prometheus6, Earl is dealing with the paradox of choice. If you’ve got a nice chunk of time, go over there and check that video out…then take a look at what Malcolm Gladwell has to say about the subject. I do happen to believe that the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop |
Hip-hop doesn’t exist without the break beat…the funkiest part of a track, sluiced away from it and used on its own. Nate Harrison created a 20 minute documentary on the “Amen Break.” Odds are that while you’ve never heard of it,...
by admin | Mar 10, 2007 | Culture |
I just got finished watching 300–the movie adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae. Trying to get a read on thoughts before I offer my own I find posts about technique, about the western civ angle, and about its relative lack...
by admin | Mar 9, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Pop Culture |
Black people have always battled over their art. On the one hand you’ve got those who believe that Kenny G. or even Kirk Whalum shouldn’t hold a candle to Wynton Marsalis. And on the other you’ve got those who would claim with a straight face that...
by admin | Mar 7, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
So my piece on medieval urbanism got a hit from my friend Jesse Walker at Reason Magazine. And through that hit I got turned on to Bryan Finoki and Subtopia. I should’ve known there’d be a resource like this… Anyway, hitting a link at random I...
by admin | Mar 4, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Bruce Gordon, President of the NAACP resigned today, after only 19 months, citing problems with the board. I wrote a piece about the NAACP right after Mfume left his post. Here’s an important snippet: the NAACP is a highly centralized organization, with a...
by admin | Mar 4, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
An article in today’s New York Times notes the increasing use of military style design principles in cities. For them, this is a totally new groove, or at the very least a post 9/11 groove. While very specific design elements may have become more commonplace...
by admin | Mar 4, 2007 | Black Family |
Remember this? Well check this out. Now truth be told we’ve been heading down this road for a while now…and as usual the trend hits vulnerable populations first, then spreads outward. The key here is the historical piece. How long has marriage really been...
by admin | Mar 2, 2007 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, NPR, The Mass Media |
Michele Martin has been working on a new NPR show and has been demoing parts of it on her blog. My man Jimi came up with a brilliant idea. Instead of having a roundtable discussion of experts as experts about the days events, why not have a roundtable discussion...
by admin | Feb 26, 2007 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Political Ideology |
Somehow I missed Gary Dauphin’s take on John McWhorter. I’m interested in McWhorter about as far as I can throw him, but what I am becoming more interested in are the politics of The New Accomodationism. Accomodationism refers to the ideology taken up by...
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