by admin | Jul 12, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following...
by admin | May 23, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
Over the last couple of days I’ve been in Washington D.C. at a conference for health disparities. One of the speakers we listened to was Aranthan Jones, former health policy advisor to Rep. Christensen and current House Majority Whip James Clyburn’s...
by admin | Apr 17, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama |
Yesterday’s debate between Sens. Obama and Clinton was important because it was the last debate before the critical Pennsylvania primary. But watching it I was not only disappointed in the questions asked by Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulus, I was...
by admin | Apr 11, 2008 | Black Leadership, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, Racial Politics |
I attended the Midwest Political Science Association conference in Chicago this last week. And got into a few interesting discussions about Obama that I’m pretty sure will translate into a research project. We know that implicitly racist ads move white voters...
by admin | Mar 21, 2008 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Culture, Democracy, NPR, Obama, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
After a bit of a hiatus I was back on the barbershop doing the thing. Among the topics of discussion were Obama’s speech, Kilpatrick’s chances in Detroit, and the LeBron James Vogue cover with Gisele.
by admin | Mar 20, 2008 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media |
One of my colleagues (Adolph Reed) called Obama’s speech The Philadelphia Compromise, tying it to Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise. One of my friends argued that he gave a “placating speech.” I’d like to see Reed’s...
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