by admin | Sep 19, 2006 | Black Power, Politics |
When Bush offered churches the opportunity to get federal aid folks thought he was trying to erase the Church/State distinction, and to at least demobilize black churches. (If he can’t get black people to vote for him, at least he can keep black pastors pacified...
by admin | Sep 18, 2006 | NPR, Politics, The Mass Media |
My most recent commentary just came out today. I remember welfare repeal like it was yesterday. Probably the two things I most remember are Clinton’s use of black single mothers to sell the program, and the fact that Maxine Waters didn’t even fight the...
by admin | Aug 30, 2006 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, NPR, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Just saw that my recent commentary on Katrina is out. Give a listen and let me know what you think. In fact, check out my first commentary on Katrina as well…written at last year’s meeting of the American Political Science Association.
by admin | Aug 27, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism |
What if you brought together over 100 of the world’s most innovative thinkers at one roundtable…and then asked them (simultaneously) to answer 100 questions culled from thousands submitted from all over the world? What if the responses were videotaped and...
by admin | Aug 20, 2006 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm
It looks like homeboy Ken Blackwell is going to go down in defeat. The type of defeat you can’t politically bounce back from. I thought this would be a good time to bring an old draft out. One of the biggest critiques levied against Cousin Jeff was that he...
by admin | Aug 19, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm |
So through the hhpc’s yahoo email list I found out that “Cousin Jeff” of BET fame is working on the campaign of Ken Blackwell. Folks were putting him on blast because they think he’s sold out, but more importantly because he makes the hip-hop...
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