by kspence | Mar 10, 2014 | Black Family, Gender and Politics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over at The Nation, Mychal Denzel Smith notes he both appreciates and is troubled by My Brother’s Keeper. Brittney Cooper echoes Smith’s primary concern that the policy is both too exclusive (ignoring women) and too respectable. If this were 1995 and we...
by kspence | Feb 28, 2014 | Media Appearances, Neoliberalism, NPR, Obama |
Earlier this week I was on Tell Me More in their parents roundtable. We were talking about the idea of paternal leave. Before Michele Martin conducted that roundtable, she had an interview with “Money Coach” Alvin Hall about how corporations are changing...
by kspence | Feb 12, 2014 | Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism
Stuart Hall passed away on February 10, 2014 at the age of 81. Hall was one of the first theorists to understand the neoliberal turn, bearing witness to Margaret Thatcher’s brutal rule as well as the Left’s accommodation to that rule in the seventies. He...
by kspence | Oct 12, 2013 | Black Power, Detroit, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics
Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to 28 years in prison this week for running a criminal enterprise. In his sentencing Judge Nancy Edumunds argued that given his history (the charges went back to his tenure as a state legislator) and given the status of the city, he...
by kspence | Aug 26, 2013 | Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
On August 22, President Obama gave a speech outlining a series of proposals designed to deal with the crisis in higher education. The contours of this crisis are painfully obvious to any parent with college-aged or near college-aged children. Both tuition and room and...
by kspence | Jul 23, 2013 | Black Politics, Crime and Punishment, Obama, Politics |
Today Salon ran two articles examining Detroit and Trayvon Martin. The article on Detroit, like most others ignore the role structural racism played Detroit's circumstances.[foot]Check out Krugman's response to Charles Lane for example, or...
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