by admin | Feb 24, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Minister Farrakhan is giving the Nation of Islam’s annual Savior’s Day Speech in Detroit on Sunday, and I’ve been asked to participate in a roundtable for this event, which may be his last, due to his failing health. My feelings about Minister...
by admin | Feb 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
I had the opportunity this weekend to meet a brother I’ve thought of as a friend for at least five years–Jelani Cobb. Jelani was in the area promoting his new book and I got a chance to kick it with him a bit. We got to talking about nationalism and...
by admin | Feb 11, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Taken from P6. Here’s the video: [youtube]FfX1rgrkh2Y[/youtube] Now Gordon doesn’t get it exactly right. When he talks about what black people have a tendency to do, he appears to talk about that tendency as if it were natural, or perhaps cultural. It...
by admin | Jan 18, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Democracy |
Obama plans on running. One of my colleagues sends me an article. Turns out he doesn’t exactly move “civil rights leaders”. Now I put the term in quote because while the article talks about civil rights leaders in the aggregate it only quotes a few....
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism |
Check out the essay here. Tell Ridley what you think here. For what it is worth I think the essay is poorly written and poorly structured. And lest someone think that black people have cornered the market on this type of ignorance, we haven’t. But what it...
by admin | Nov 30, 2006 | Black Leadership |
In his recent post Why Do Families Call on Sharpton Steve Gillard attempts to answer what is probably a pressing question amongs white New Yorkers at the very least. Why is it whenever there is some sort of “racial flare up” Sharpton gets the call? I...
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