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...
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...
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