by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media
I watched the documentary Paper Clips on my palm pilot over the last week while waiting for the bus. I’ve been meaning to check it out since I heard about it, and since I would always have time to kill waiting for the bus I thought I’d spread it out over a...
by admin | Oct 7, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
Ok. So about ten days or so ago, my Ipod died on me. I had planned to begin podcasting my lectures for my black politics class, among other things. All for naught. I took it to the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, and the assistant charged it, listened to it…and...
by admin | Oct 6, 2006 | Black Power, Neoliberalism |
One of the reasons I haven’t been posting as often is because I’ve begun teaching. After two years off I was literally dying to get into the classroom…and for good reason. My two classes (Black Politics–primarily for undergrads, Comparative...
by admin | Oct 3, 2006 | Democracy, Political Ideology, Politics |
I was going to call this post “the best argument for conservatism I can think of” but the thing is that conservatism really isn’t about small government, it’s about small government for interests conservatives don’t support. Hence the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2006 | Public Health |
While waiting two hours in a Lake County Ill hospital complaining of severe pain, Beatrice (ed.–previously i wrote “beverly”) Vance died of a heart attack. This after she clearly reported symptoms that indicated that a heart attack was imminent (ed....
by admin | Sep 19, 2006 | Black Power, Politics |
When Bush offered churches the opportunity to get federal aid folks thought he was trying to erase the Church/State distinction, and to at least demobilize black churches. (If he can’t get black people to vote for him, at least he can keep black pastors pacified...
by admin | Sep 18, 2006 | Announcements |
The Boggs Center will be hosting a Fall Conversation Series. Those in or around the Detroit area should make every effort to check this out. Boggs is a revolutionary in the real sense of the word. For those (like me) unable to make it, check out some of her writings....
by admin | Sep 18, 2006 | NPR, Politics, The Mass Media |
My most recent commentary just came out today. I remember welfare repeal like it was yesterday. Probably the two things I most remember are Clinton’s use of black single mothers to sell the program, and the fact that Maxine Waters didn’t even fight the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2006 | Neoliberalism |
I’m getting picked up today a bit later than usual. So I thought I’d end the day with some random links that may be of interest to you. Let me know what you think! My family is pretty tight with the Asim family. Today Jabari Asim wrote about deciding to...
by admin | Sep 11, 2006 | Announcements |
What Tayari said.
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