by admin | Aug 19, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm |
So through the hhpc’s yahoo email list I found out that “Cousin Jeff” of BET fame is working on the campaign of Ken Blackwell. Folks were putting him on blast because they think he’s sold out, but more importantly because he makes the hip-hop...
by admin | Aug 16, 2006 | NPR, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
I briefly blogged at oldschoolrepublicans.net until I told my homeboy that although he was a Republican (and made the strongest argument I’d heard in favor of blacks joining the GOP) I didn’t roll like that. In my most recent NPR piece I talk about some of...
by admin | Aug 13, 2006 | Black Family, Urban Politics |
Woke up this morning, putzing around on the desktop. “There was a car crash this morning.” What? “A car crashed into a motorcycle. The rider hit the windshield and was thrown across the street!” Damn. My daughter heard it–it woke her up....
by admin | Aug 11, 2006 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
Obama graces the cover of Men’s Vogue magazine. Who covers it? Why the Washington Post of course! Deja vu all over again.
by admin | Aug 9, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
In my most recent NPR Commentary I rail against the habit of putting articles about black male politicians in the style section. One of the reasons we don’t really know what people like Barak Obama stand for is because pundits are so concerned with their...
by admin | Aug 6, 2006 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, things that make you go hmm |
The most recent edition of the American Political Science Review contained an article written by John P. McCormick (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) that presented three legitimate practices governments used in order to prevent the wealthy from...
by admin | Aug 2, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
The hardest thing for me to do on any given day is clear the cobwebs out of my head so I can start writing. This is what I’m trying to do now…get the juices flowing. As a result this is going to ramble a bit. Yesterday, long after the cobwebs had cleared I...
by admin | Aug 1, 2006 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy |
Browsing, I ran into this. My incoming freshmen were born in 1988. They started sixth grade around the time Napster took hold. Not only do they not recall the 8-track, or the album (the only reason they know vinyl at all is because of the house/electro/hip-hop DJ),...
by admin | Jul 31, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
In today’s New York Times, they acknowledge one of the hidden realities of the current economy–the growing number of men who have dropped out of the economy totally. But because the population is largely white, there isn’t even a hint of the venom...
by admin | Jul 30, 2006 | Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
I don’t know if the Michigan All Stars should’ve come in second, but this is low.
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