by kspence | Jun 28, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Education, Hip-hop, The Mass Media
Tagged "the world's premier forum for debate" Intelligence Squared recently partnered with Google to conduct a debate on hip-hop, featuring almost a dozen scholars, activists, policy analysts, with a couple of MCs thrown in to boot. The debate lasted for...
by kspence | Jun 20, 2012 | Education, Neoliberalism |
Last week, the University of Virginia's Board of Governors forced its President Teresa Sullivan to leave after only two years on the job. Thousands of students and alumni have mobilized in response. One University Professor submitted a letter of resignation in...
by kspence | Jun 18, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Education, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
A couple of weeks ago we held the finals of The Baltimore Mixtape Project. It was the kickoff event of Mobilizing and Organizing from Below. The event was far better than I could've possibly imagined, particularly given its shoestring nature. Most importantly it...
by kspence | Feb 17, 2012 | Black Politics, Education |
I was invited yesterday to give a talk on drop-out prevention. Because I am pretty sensitive to the general critique that public intellectuals often go too far afield from the discipline they were trained in–Henry Louis Gates is rarely asked to pontificate on...
by kspence | Feb 9, 2012 | Education |
I was recently asked to begin blogging on CNN's website. My first post appeared this week. In it I argued that college education should be an entitlement rather than a privilege open to those with the ability to pay for it. This isn't my idea–I wish it...
by kspence | Dec 8, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Hip-hop, Urban Politics |
One of the questions I never asked in Stare in the Darkness (because it wasn't a "how to" book) was "how might we use rap and hip-hop progressively?" There are literally dozens of efforts across the world to connect rap and hip-hop to...
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