by kspence | Oct 3, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black People Mythology, Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Knocking the Hustle |
On August 22, 2011, the Martin Luther King Memorial opened to the public. The first African American to be honored with a memorial on the Mall, and only the fourth non-President, King’s memorial took decades of planning and fundraising. It stands, or perhaps better...
by kspence | Oct 2, 2012 | Afrofuturism, Black Popular Culture, Neoliberalism
Last week I showed a documentary about the spread of electronic music. And have shown a couple of videos that were a part of the Imaging Detroit project. This week I meld the two. And I do it on this specific day because of one of the individuals interviewed in this...
by kspence | Sep 27, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Pop Culture |
Denzel Washington is on the cover of October’s GQ magazine as part of a press junket for his 42nd (!!) movie. Great interview. But I want to focus on two quotes. The first deals with Whitney Houston: What did you feel when Whitney died? Whitney was my girl, and...
by kspence | Sep 26, 2012 | Class and Politics, Neoliberalism, Sports |
But of course that’s not the real story. Why are the original refs being replaced in the first place? The struggle between the owners and the referees is part and parcel of a much larger series of struggles between labor and capital. In this case, the two...
by kspence | Sep 24, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture
Idris Elba of The Wire (and most recently Luther) is a DJ and has been emersed in the British club scene for decades. In the documentary Clubbing Changed the World he makes a number of powerful claims about the role electronic music played in popular culture and in...
by kspence | Sep 20, 2012 | Black Popular Culture
On Ill Doctrine, Brother Ali talks about writer’s block. I remember the first time I encountered soul searing, not gonna get a job, going to have to hustle to feed my family, type writer’s block. I was dissertating, and at some point, probably in the...
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