by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over the summer the White House cut their funding to HBCUs $85 million. While they argued in response that they’ve indirectly increased aid to HBCUs alumni and concerned citizens are up in arms. Earlier today I had a discussion with a friend who detailed to me a...
by admin | Sep 2, 2009 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Public Health, Public Policy |
California Nurses Association For Immediate Release September 2, 2009 Contact: Charles Idelson 510-273-2246, Shum Preston 510-273-2276, or Liz Jacobs 510-273-2232 More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a...
by admin | Jul 30, 2009 | NPR, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
I was on Tell Me More last week talking Michael Vick and Cat Fancy, Obama’s Health Care plan, and of course the Gates stuff. Take a listen (and now read the transcript!) here. Some of the best stuff didn’t make it to the final cut–I think this is one...
by admin | Jul 23, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Yesterday I dealt with the flashpoint occasion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest and spent most of it recounting a situation that happened to me at the beginning of the last school year. Like Gates I was caught in a narrative I couldn’t get out of. It...
by admin | Jul 22, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education |
In 1991 Lawrence Kasdan directed the film Grand Canyon, starring Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Mary McDonnell, and Mary Louise-Parker. Set in Los Angeles, the film traces the way a series of disconnected events ultimately connect and to a certain extent...
by admin | Jun 9, 2009 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Obama, Public Health, Public Policy, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
We all agree that our health care system is broken. We get too little care for what we pay, suffer more than we should even after we pay. When Grant Hill first signed with the Detroit Pistons several years ago now he was on "sky's the limit" trajectory....
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