by admin | Jun 27, 2007 | Announcements, Politics, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
We all know that black people die sooner, are more likely to be afflicted with a range of ills, and less likely to get care. Some of this is pure economics. But this dynamic goes up the socio-economic scale, indicating that this is not just “class” by...
by admin | Jun 25, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Democracy, Urban Politics |
A number of people have answered my simple question. How far could you travel when you were a kid?I decided to actually answer this question myself by way of google maps. By walking/bike riding? The farthest I went unsupervised was about 7 miles on foot. And from the...
by admin | May 30, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Urban Politics |
Forty years ago this summer, Detroit burned, leaving 43 dead, 467 injured, and 2000 buildings burned to the ground. Although some argue that this ended up being the impetus for white flight, the fact of the matter is that even as whites had the opportunity to leave in...
by admin | May 20, 2007 | Politics |
This year’s top 25 censored stories of 2007 includes this interesting tidbit: Special Counsel Scott Bloch, appointed by President Bush in 2004, is overseeing the virtual elimination of federal whistleblower rights in the U.S. government. The U.S. Office of...
by admin | May 9, 2007 | Politics |
I guess “the new poor” is better than “the underclass”. But just as no one who is considered a member of “the underclass” would actually claim the moniker, I’m not sure how many people would claim being part of “the new...
by admin | May 7, 2007 | Democracy |
At least according to this article. Now something like this is usually leaked to the press by someone. Here I’m thinking that someone from Mayor Kilpatrick’s cabinet leaked this story to the journalist. It gets at some of the difficulties that my (helpful)...
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