by admin | Sep 6, 2007 | Education, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Back on the block. I’m teaching Urban Politics this semester. First time in a few years. The first day is usually a give the syllabus send them home type of day, but I wanted to deal with the big questions. So I started with two youtube videos (last time I...
by admin | Aug 14, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education |
For a great many of us involved in black student politics on college campuses from Michigan to Howard, we came to our love of wisdom by dealing with the Ancients rather than the early Greeks. And our knowledge of ma’at and related concepts came not reading...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Education, Pop Culture, The Mass Media
Tonight my wife will be hosting a show on education: Education is being talked about across the nation, but who’s doing anything about failing school, bureaucratic mismanagement, and outdated curricula and materials? Our guests, Tonya Allen of the Skillman...
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Lani Guinier wrote an article in the Journal of American History on Brown vs. Board. Up until this point the best critique I’d read about the NAACP strategy had been Harold Cruse’s Plural But Equal. But what Guinier’s article brings to light is the...
by admin | Jun 30, 2007 | Education, Racial Politics |
I was in Houston for the Health Disparities Conference, and heard about the ruling while literally taping (Michel Martin told us about it). And it took the wind out of my sails. Just sucked the energy out of the room.My thoughts in no particular order: If there was an...
by admin | May 8, 2007 | Education |
When voters in the state of Michigan passed a referendum that would render affirmative action based on race (and gender i think) illegal in contracting and in college admission, I knew that this would happen. Take a look around college campuses–not just...
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