by admin | Jan 11, 2008 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy |
I’m snatching the following quote from Adolph Reed’s important work Stirrings in the Jug: Encouraging popular participation is the only effective possibility for reinvigorating a progressive movement in black political life because people respond by...
by admin | Dec 29, 2007 | Black Leadership, Racial Politics
In hindsight I’m pretty sure that P6 wrote a bit about this story. One bit caught me off guard–one of those interviewed moved from Detroit to Maine looking for “peace and tranquility” and it was this sister who argued that folks in Maine...
by admin | Dec 13, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, Urban Politics |
The last post was uncited because I received its contents from an email I received. But I now know who the author is, and what he’s doing. Phillip Jackson is the Executive Director of The Black Star Project. Although as I noted in a response to him I think his...
by admin | Aug 14, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education |
For a great many of us involved in black student politics on college campuses from Michigan to Howard, we came to our love of wisdom by dealing with the Ancients rather than the early Greeks. And our knowledge of ma’at and related concepts came not reading...
by admin | Aug 6, 2007 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
So unless you’ve been living under a rock (or don’t read black news sources) you are familiar with the plight of the Jena Six. With the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton entering the fray it now appears as if this travesty of justice will get more media coverage,...
by admin | Jul 30, 2007 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
IMG_0690_1.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. I visited Artscape, a local arts festival in Baltimore, for the first time. Got a chance to see an African drum/dance troupe perform. The brother in this picture was one of the oldest brothers there, and required a seat...
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