by kspence | Jun 28, 2011 | Neoliberalism, Public Policy, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ-ldcnhsLY[/youtube] Today? 911 is a joke. Today I’m dealing with the contemporary politics of black health, focusing on HIV/AIDS, and I thought it’d be a good look. It doesn’t deal at all with the ways black...
by admin | Mar 25, 2011 | Black Power, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics |
The 2010 census findings are beginning to trickle out. Blacks are leaving the North, but let’s not get it twisted, what they’re really doing is leaving the Rustbelt…and New York City. Blacks migrated to the north en masse in the Great Migration to...
by admin | Feb 14, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crime and Punishment, Education, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics |
Photo by Steve SnodgrassMany of you have read about Kelley Williams-Bolar, who was found guilty of two felonies (“theft” and “tampering with records”) when someone revealed that she used her father’s address to enroll her daughters in a...
by admin | Aug 10, 2010 | Black Power, Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media
To many people, black politics and the black church is synonymous. But the relationship between black churches and politics has changed over the years, in partial response to changes in local, and national political priorities, and also in response to changes in black...
by admin | Mar 10, 2010 | Marc Steiner Show, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
The first day of the Fall 2009 semester I was victimized by racial harassment on campus–I was asked to leave an outdoor event under the threat of security after an encounter with a staff person. Sometime that semester the good folks at The Urbanite–one of...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This month The Urbanite is running an issue on “Race”. I was asked by the editor to write about the phenomenon of “self-segregation”. So rather than pen a piece about black kids deciding to sit all by themselves, I took another approach. I...
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