by admin | Jan 11, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Urban Politics |
Adrienne Brown is hot like fire. – We need ongoing supported focus on police brutality and accountability, even as we develop our own peace zones. It’s no longer sufficient to get furious when a civilian is killed by police, and maintain that fury until...
by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership |
The line of the last four months has been something like the following: I’d never thought I’d live to see this happen. Of course those of us in the states, and even outside, know what “this” means. But what is going on is so much bigger. Hell I...
by admin | Dec 26, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Culture, Neoliberalism |
Important tidbits in a growing story: College endowments drop like a rock. In earlier news, NPR decides to drop News and Notes. Newspapers like the Detroit Free Press go virtual, while other newspapers won’t survive 2009. Book publishers have slashed their...
by admin | Dec 16, 2008 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Roland Fryer has been working on a program that pays children for academic success for a while now, and its been rolled out in Chicago, New York City, and Washington D.C. even though research argues that it does little to nothing to reduce the achievement gap. For all...
by admin | Dec 2, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
I got this from Grace Boggs. Worth reading, posting, and re-posting: ….. Our Time is Not the 1930s By Grace Lee Boggs Michigan Citizen, Nov. 30- Dec 6, 2008 Two weeks ago in my first post- election column, I wrote that I will not be among those organizing or...
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