by admin | Mar 10, 2010 | Marc Steiner Show, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
The first day of the Fall 2009 semester I was victimized by racial harassment on campus–I was asked to leave an outdoor event under the threat of security after an encounter with a staff person. Sometime that semester the good folks at The Urbanite–one of...
by admin | Mar 9, 2010 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, The Mass Media |
A couple of weeks ago Rev. Al Sharpton and other prominent African Americans (including NAACP head Benjamin Jealous and Council of Negro Women President Dorothy Heights) were invited to the White House to discuss President Obama’s job bill. Afterwards some of...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This month The Urbanite is running an issue on “Race”. I was asked by the editor to write about the phenomenon of “self-segregation”. So rather than pen a piece about black kids deciding to sit all by themselves, I took another approach. I...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
by admin | Jan 22, 2010 | NPR, Politics, The Mass Media |
John Edwards revealed that the affair with his campaign staffer Rielle Hunter produced a child, even as his wife was dying from cancer. Although a number of pundits and politicians are glad his political career is over, I’ve second thoughts. The tragedy in Haiti...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
Haiti is the first instance in the modern world of the enslaved taking their country back. And they’ve paid for it ever since. In talking about what’s going on in Haiti now, this is the SECOND thing that should be mentioned…as it provides context for...
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