by admin | May 4, 2009 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Marc Steiner Show, Obama |
I was on the Marc Steiner Show talking about Obama’s first 100 days. In part because of this piece Marc thought I’d be more sympathetic to Obama than I was. But just because I froze my butt off seeing Obama get inaugurated doesn’t mean I’m...
by admin | Mar 3, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve been meaning to get to this, but Buster brought up something in comments that I meant to address but haven’t had a chance to get to. In fact, because my blogging has been so light, in the wake of so much bloggable material, I’ve considered...
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 24, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Marc Steiner Show, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
In discussing whether the auto industry deserves a bailout, we talked about the role of the auto industry in creating the middle class. The work protections that we have, the work week that we have, the benefits we have, all come from the “massification”...
by admin | Nov 21, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
I’m a Ford kid. I graduated from the high school I did because of Ford money. Graduated from undergrad out of Michigan because of Ford money. Went to grad school, got married to the woman i did, and had the children i did, indirectly because of Ford money. But...
by admin | Aug 12, 2008 | Education, NPR, The Mass Media |
But it’s not this Spence but that one. The number of black homeschoolers has been shooting through the roof, in part because of the increase in black Christian families interested in embedding Christian principles in education, but also because of a sense that...
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