Disparities in Health Summer Workshop

I am in Houston at the 4th Annual Summer Workshop on Health Disparities. A number of the countries best and brightest are here to talk about health disparities from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Right now I’m listening to Bill Jenkins and he’s...

Fledgling

I read Octavia Butler’s last book, Fledgling. I’ve talked about what Butler meant to me as an Afrofuturist. On one level Fledgling is a very simple book, attempting to answer a series of very simple questions. Reading it I can see the gears turning in...

Hip-Hop Matters (A Review)

Over the weekend I had a chance to read Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins. Probably the best book of its kind in the field. It was a little formulaic in places–in order to flesh out the narrative Watkins presents brief bios of important figures in rap, and...

Belated

I took the post below and snatched it from my old haunts. I remember the first time I heard “Song for My Father” by Horace Silver. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. My grandfather played it, and other old school classics, religiously. We...

Moving in Place

I changed my CMS from Geeklog to WordPress after much deliberation. I wanted a cleaner look, and I also wanted to be able to use tags to organize my blog entries. WordPress offers both, plus literally hundreds of plugins and themes. My wife’s blog was probably...