by admin | May 30, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Urban Politics |
Forty years ago this summer, Detroit burned, leaving 43 dead, 467 injured, and 2000 buildings burned to the ground. Although some argue that this ended up being the impetus for white flight, the fact of the matter is that even as whites had the opportunity to leave in...
by admin | Apr 24, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power |
General Baker is an old school labor activist in Detroit. Check this video out…it runs a little long but it is worth it. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/JUfop2Pl9pc” width=”425″ height=”350″...
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 | Jan 12, 2007 | Black Power, Culture, Hip-hop |
Just a question. For what it is worth, I don’t believe I ever have.
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 26, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black People Mythology, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me
There’s an interesting discussion with two parts over at P6 about cooperative economics. The belief that black businesses will somehow lift black people from our place on the bottom rungs is driven by a mythical belief in the power of capitalism. If trickle-down...
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