by admin | Jul 27, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
I got word today that a brother I knew indirectly (he was a member of one of the black fraternities at Michigan, and I knew some of the people he pledged with) killed himself and his wife in a murder-suicide. He left behind three children (who were in the home locked...
by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Black Family, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, NPR, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This was the take home message of my latest NPR Commentary. The caption focuses largely on black America’s debt. And our debt is growing. But what folks really need to get with is the fact that this is an American condition. Black people are always talking about...
by admin | Jun 19, 2006 | Announcements, Black Family
I took the post below and snatched it from my old haunts. I remember the first time I heard “Song for My Father” by Horace Silver. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. My grandfather played it, and other old school classics, religiously. We...
by admin | Jun 18, 2006 | Black Family, NPR, Public Health, The Mass Media |
Around Mother’s Day a group publishes a report on the State of the World’s Moms. The United States didn’t fare too well. My latest commentary on NPR looks at how these numbers jibe with the supposed “culture of life” that Bush supports....
by admin | Apr 14, 2006 | Gender and Politics, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
Within the subculture literature a number of scholars have talked about the virtual absence of women. Looking at the works that attempted to analyse the punk movement in Great Britain for example, it is almost as if girls weren’t present. No girls at the clubs,...
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