by kspence | Jan 16, 2012 | Black Politics, Neoliberalism |
I got into a brief argument with Cornel West in Seattle over Labor Day Weekend, over his argument that MLK would want a revolution rather than a memorial. I made two points: The first is that King is dead. He was assassinated 44 years ago. And if he were...
by kspence | Dec 16, 2011 | Black Leadership, Democracy |
Ben Chavis, former National Director of the Million Man March, and current CEO and Co-Chairman of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network held a press conference announcing "Occupy the Dream" designed to create a bridge between the Occupy Movement and African...
by kspence | Dec 13, 2011 | Democracy, Neoliberalism |
At approximately 4am on Tuesday morning (December 13, 2011) riot police forced members of Occupy Baltimore to leave McKeldin Square. No one was arrested, and there was no violence. In a statement, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake affirmed the right of individuals to...
by kspence | Dec 8, 2011 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education, Hip-hop, Urban Politics |
One of the questions I never asked in Stare in the Darkness (because it wasn't a "how to" book) was "how might we use rap and hip-hop progressively?" There are literally dozens of efforts across the world to connect rap and hip-hop to...
by kspence | Oct 31, 2011 | Black Family, NPR, Politics |
Herman Cain’s been getting a big bang out of a little buck, at least as evidenced by his recent ad campaign: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhm-22Q0PuM[/youtube] This past Friday I addressed this on The Barbershop. The quick and dirty of it is that I...
by kspence | Sep 26, 2011 | Black Leadership, Neoliberalism, Obama |
I had the opportunity to read Obama’s Speech to the CBC. In contrast to critiques that he hasn’t sufficiently paid attention or given credit to the Civil Rights Movement, Obama’s speech is full of references to the Civil Rights Movement and to Martin...
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