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...
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 | Apr 19, 2007 | Black People Mythology, Hip-hop, Political Ideology |
One of my younger fraternity brothers, in the wake of the Imus scandal, made the following Whitlockian move: In realtity, what ever parts of our culture become mainstream will affect their preceptions of us and their interactions. How we treat each other sets...
by admin | Apr 4, 2007 | Black Leadership, Politics |
I just found about the results of some qualitative interviews done with black bloggers by Antoinette Pole from posts by Cobb and Prometheus 6. The results of her interviews suggest that black bloggers are likely to blog about racial issues and likely to use their...
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