by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Dec 22, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…what do you see when you read the following articles in tandem? Hedge Funds Overlook Madoff Risk. A Reeling City is a Snapshot of Economic Woes. Squeezed on all sides, parents forgo day care. New target for Mexico’s Drug Cartels: Schools. ...
by admin | Dec 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Detroit is the modern city. What we think of when we think of the modern urban condition (from relying on automobiles and freeways to drive, from using cities to house labor for factories, to stereotypes of crime and urban dysfunction) all happened in Detroit first....
by admin | Dec 15, 2008 | NPR, The Mass Media |
Early last week at around the same time that my neighbor fell asleep at the wheel, taking out my mailbox in the process (about 1:30am), I got an email from a friend in Europe. News and Notes had been cancelled. I’ve been a fan of NPR now going back over twenty...
by admin | Nov 22, 2008 | Democracy, Education, The Mass Media |
In the wake of what is sure to be the end of the world as we know it–and this doesn’t have to sound as apocalyptic as I make it seem–some are asking whether we are culturally prepared for the oncoming shift. There are over 42 million American...
by admin | Nov 19, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
[googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2988926453902779335&hl=en[/googlevideo] Crossposted at Blackprof.
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