by admin | May 26, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Today on Midday with Dan Rodrick I’ll be talking with William Julius Wilson who released a new book More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. Wilson’s work over the past thirty years has defined the discussion on poverty both in academic...
by admin | May 4, 2009 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Marc Steiner Show, Obama |
I was on the Marc Steiner Show talking about Obama’s first 100 days. In part because of this piece Marc thought I’d be more sympathetic to Obama than I was. But just because I froze my butt off seeing Obama get inaugurated doesn’t mean I’m...
by admin | Apr 14, 2009 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Democracy, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
Zoltan Hajnal at the University of California, San Diego, has just published an article in the American Political Science Review that looks at the issue of political representation. Democracy at its best is supposed to distribute victories and losses fairly evenly...
by admin | Apr 6, 2009 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Obama |
The Urban League recently released a report on the state of black America. With unemployment at 22% in Black America alone, do you really need to know what that report said? For historian Jelani Cobb, this calls for a treatment of the old Booker T. Washington vs....
by admin | Feb 26, 2009 | Black Power, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
If you’re connected to me via facebook you know I was updating furiously during the Obama speech. And I agreed with much of it. What he’s doing is nothing less than revolutionary–at least within the context of the last 10 plus years of American...
by admin | Feb 19, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
With Obama’s election, there was hope that the black media corps would have a much tighter relationship with him. And to an extent they have so far–remember we’re barely a month into his Presidency. Feels a lot longer because Bush pretty much...
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