by admin | Feb 24, 2007 | Hip-hop |
Who would it be? I think I cribbed this meme from one of my man Gary Dauphin’s, deli.icio.us links. Whatever the case, another Michigan alum answers the question definitively. For a longer list check this one out. Now check the dates out on these posts. I...
by admin | Feb 24, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Minister Farrakhan is giving the Nation of Islam’s annual Savior’s Day Speech in Detroit on Sunday, and I’ve been asked to participate in a roundtable for this event, which may be his last, due to his failing health. My feelings about Minister...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
When political scientists think about “running the numbers” what we normally think about is some form of quantitative analysis. In my case, I’m thinking about multivariate regressions. When Chris Jordan talks about running the numbers he’s got...
by admin | Feb 23, 2007 | Neoliberalism |
A few years ago when I was starting the postdoc in Baltimore, I met a powerful MD/MPH named Sekai, who was studying HIV/AIDS on both the domestic and international level. She looked familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Her last name? Chideya. She had the same...
by admin | Feb 22, 2007 | Democracy |
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ouKJixL–ms” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Thanks to Think Progress.
by admin | Feb 19, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop |
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf” width=”430″ height=”346″ fvars=”m=1931387367;type=video” wmode=”transparent” /] Thanks to the folks at Hip Hop Politics.
by admin | Feb 18, 2007 | Neoliberalism
It’s been widely thought that the reason that HIV/AIDS was so hard to fight was that it morphed…changing shape in a way that prevented standard approaches to dealing with disease. As soon as you develop a method of dealing with one form, another form...
by admin | Feb 17, 2007 | Afrofuturism
So I’m watching Sweetback’s Badass Song for the Black Power Fantasies course I am co-teaching with Stanford Carpenter. What we don’t really have a handle on is how transformative the black power period was. There are a whole set of propositions that...
by admin | Feb 15, 2007 | Neoliberalism
I’ve been meaning to do something like this for a while now. No time like the present: Compendium of Public Radio Podcasts –Access to over 900 public radio programs throughout the globe. 45 Free Cutting Edge Books–Many authors are starting to release...
by admin | Feb 13, 2007 | Hip-hop |
cobb book signing04.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. There are a whole range of works that deal with the politics of hip-hop. Given the freight placed on hip-hop as a social/political movement, this is understandable. Hell, I’m at work as we speak on my own...
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