by kspence | Feb 11, 2014 | Black Popular Culture, Mixcloud
[mixcloud]http://www.mixcloud.com/lesterspence/the-king-baraka-hamer-mix/[/mixcloud]
by kspence | Jan 1, 2014 | Announcements, Black Popular Culture, Culture
[mixcloud]https://x.mixcloud.com/lesterspence/in-search-of-iton-remix/[/mixcloud] On Thursday, April 21, 2013, Richard Iton, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, passed away after a long bout with leukemia. In honor of his work,...
by kspence | Jul 30, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Gender and Politics
I want to visually follow up on a point I made yesterday. I think Ryan Coogler did an excellent job at representing Oscar Grant not as a type, but as a fully developed human, with a range of feelings, with a range of identities. I happened to be blessed to...
by kspence | Jul 29, 2013 | Black Family, Black Popular Culture, Gender and Politics |
I remember when BART cops murdered Oscar Grant in 2009, because it happened just a few weeks before Obama's inaugural. I'd known that Obama's election didn't eradicate racism or classism, but the stark juxtaposition struck me, as well as the facts of...
by kspence | Jul 11, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Hip-hop, Neoliberalism
While some would argue Magna Carter Holy Grail is Jay-Z's latest album, I'd disagree. I think it more accurate to call it a delivery system, given the technological and economic dynamics of its release. Although if you didn't cop it through Samsung,...
by kspence | Feb 25, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/33187727[/vimeo] I had a chance to check out Nelson George’s Brooklyn Boheme (BB) last week at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance Theater. I’d urge everyone interested in the concept of the creative class, in black late twentieth...
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