by admin | Jul 23, 2008 | Black Family, Gender and Politics, The Mass Media |
A blacksmythe first. I’m going to write my thoughts up as they come up so I can store them for future reference…. 11:57 Ends with a discussion about relationship options. One thing that’s important to consider here is Kriss Turner would be in no...
by admin | Jul 12, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following...
by admin | Jul 4, 2008 | Announcements, Black Family, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
Niara and Grandma Tootsie, originally uploaded by Unbowed. My paternal grandmother passed away last fall. Her birthday would have been today. Here she is with my daughter whose birthday is on Sunday. I thought about her when I heard about Rene Marie....
by admin | Jun 22, 2008 | Black Family, Gender and Politics, Urban Politics |
Jimi asked a bunch of us this question, and one of my partners already weighed in. I wish I had an answer that would pass muster. I don’t. I can, like Cobb did, pull from a list of my boys–good men all–and use that as some sort of barometer. The...
by admin | Jun 17, 2008 | Black Family, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, things that make you go hmm |
Many have written about the stark racial differences in wealth and in income. But what about the differences within black communities? Working on the book I found a couple of charts that I think are interesting here. The gini coefficient measures income inequality...
by admin | Jun 15, 2008 | Black Family, Obama, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
It was striking alright…striking in as much as it smacked a whole bunch of black folks who are trying to make lemonade with lemons right in the mouth: Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes,” Mr....
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