by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism |
I’ve started a new photoblog over at Vox. My man George reminded me about the following video. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/lxNAPqGDwCo” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”...
by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
No joke. What jumps out to me was the fact that Henry Ford (and I’m assuming they mean the hospital) buys most of their stuff from local gardeners. I know that most urban folk have gotten out of the habit of growing their own food–and sometimes it’s...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
(as an aside, why has my traffic relatively blown up off of the Jamal Bryant Empowerment Temple stuff? all i did was point folks to the site….interesting.) This global vs. local thing I’ve been working through has led to a few spinoffs that I think people...
by admin | Jun 25, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Democracy, Urban Politics |
A number of people have answered my simple question. How far could you travel when you were a kid?I decided to actually answer this question myself by way of google maps. By walking/bike riding? The farthest I went unsupervised was about 7 miles on foot. And from the...
by admin | Jun 7, 2007 | Culture, Pop Culture, Racial Politics, Sports |
I've been reading about Gary Sheffield's (expanded) comments about the relative absence of African Americans in Major League Baseball. To tell you how much I know and how deep this situation is, until Sheffield made his comments I just assumed that Sheffield...
by admin | May 30, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Urban Politics |
Forty years ago this summer, Detroit burned, leaving 43 dead, 467 injured, and 2000 buildings burned to the ground. Although some argue that this ended up being the impetus for white flight, the fact of the matter is that even as whites had the opportunity to leave in...
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