by kspence | Oct 25, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black Politics, Obama |
Last week I blogged about a debate between Michael Eric Dyson and Glen Ford. I want to return to that subject briefly, because I recalled this video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0mEzQMQd5s[/youtube] This is what I said about it before: We don't...
by kspence | Oct 3, 2012 | Black Leadership, Black People Mythology, Black Politics, Black Popular Culture, Knocking the Hustle |
On August 22, 2011, the Martin Luther King Memorial opened to the public. The first African American to be honored with a memorial on the Mall, and only the fourth non-President, King’s memorial took decades of planning and fundraising. It stands, or perhaps better...
by kspence | Dec 16, 2011 | Black Leadership, Democracy |
Ben Chavis, former National Director of the Million Man March, and current CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network held a press conference announcing "Occupy the Dream" designed to create a bridge between the Occupy Movement and African...
by kspence | Sep 26, 2011 | Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Obama |
I had the opportunity to read Obama’s Speech to the CBC. In contrast to critiques that he hasn’t sufficiently paid attention or given credit to the Civil Rights Movement, Obama’s speech is full of references to the Civil Rights Movement and to Martin...
by kspence | Aug 26, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
For those on the east coast reading this blog on 8/26 or this weekend, please take steps to make sure you’re safe given Irene. Government information can be found here. I am bracing for a storm at least as bad as the winter storms we’ve been...
by admin | May 23, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual |
This semester one of my seniors wrote a paper examining African American conceptions of freedom over time, using the speeches of various black elite to ferret out how they used the term. When we think of freedom now, thanks to the neoliberal turn, we usually think of...
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