by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
by admin | Jan 22, 2010 | NPR, Politics, The Mass Media |
John Edwards revealed that the affair with his campaign staffer Rielle Hunter produced a child, even as his wife was dying from cancer. Although a number of pundits and politicians are glad his political career is over, I’ve second thoughts. The tragedy in Haiti...
by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
Haiti is the first instance in the modern world of the enslaved taking their country back. And they’ve paid for it ever since. In talking about what’s going on in Haiti now, this is the SECOND thing that should be mentioned…as it provides context for...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Today the NYT ran a story reporting Harlem was no longer majority black. This news is important enough to cover…and particularly interesting given the fact that New York City is no longer majority white. But the reality is that the Harlem we carry in our head?...
by admin | Dec 16, 2009 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Obama |
One of my friends on facebook posted a brief snippet about Obama featuring Cornel West’s quote that he’d rather be in the crack house than the White House, accusing Obama of being at best oblivious to suffering and promoting neoliberal policies. I...
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
When Obama got elected a couple of researchers conducted an experiment to see if Obama’s election would have any tangible effect on the racial achievement gap. The logic was there…there’s this thing called “stereotype threat” that causes...
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