by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
(as an aside, why has my traffic relatively blown up off of the Jamal Bryant Empowerment Temple stuff? all i did was point folks to the site….interesting.) This global vs. local thing I’ve been working through has led to a few spinoffs that I think people...
by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Democracy, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeezIsTZ_o[/youtube] I’ve already linked to part of Bill Moyers’ interview with Grace Boggs. But the video expands on some of it, and emphasizes a couple of points that bear consistent repetition:1. We have to...
by admin | Jul 7, 2007 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Some questions to chew on.When black students at the University of Michigan took over the school in ’69, ’77, and ’87, were they trying to end racism in the United States? Or were they trying to end racism at U of M?When Rosa Parks decided not to...
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Lani Guinier wrote an article in the Journal of American History on Brown vs. Board. Up until this point the best critique I’d read about the NAACP strategy had been Harold Cruse’s Plural But Equal. But what Guinier’s article brings to light is the...
by admin | Jun 30, 2007 | Black Leadership, Neoliberalism |
Jamal Bryant used to run the NAACP’s youth wing. Now Bryant has his own church. Empowerment Temple. I haven’t really spoken much about the mega-church phenomenon. But then I saw the Empowerment Temple’s website.And was rendered even more speechless...
by admin | Jun 25, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Democracy, Urban Politics |
A number of people have answered my simple question. How far could you travel when you were a kid?I decided to actually answer this question myself by way of google maps. By walking/bike riding? The farthest I went unsupervised was about 7 miles on foot. And from the...
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