by admin | Feb 15, 2011 | Neoliberalism, Obama |
Photo by tsevisPresident Obama released his budget proposal today. Among the cuts he proposes are cuts to home-heating aid (cuts that given Midwest and Northeast snowfall will hit middle, working class, and poor citizens pretty hard), and cuts to community service...
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 | Feb 9, 2011 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism
When we talk about black representation to a certain extent we’re talking about the people in this picture, Michael Nutter (Mayor of Philadelphia), James Clyburn (D-SC), John Lewis (D-Ga), and Artur Davis (member of congress–D-AL–when this picture...
by admin | Feb 8, 2011 | Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Politics |
When Reagan died in 2004 (on June 5, my birthday) I wrote a piece for the now defunct Africana.com. As conservatives commemorate his 100th birthday I think this piece still stands up: On Saturday, June 5, Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, passed...
by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media |
Photo by Bob JagendorfSeveral years ago, before the crash, Chrysler rolled out a commercial featuring Chrysler mainstay Lee Iacocca and a by-this-time sanitized rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrGx2I2K18[/youtube] The commercial is...
by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism |
Photo by JKönigTwo days ago I talked about black families with Dr. Kris Marsh on the Mark Steiner Show. In briefly examining about how we got “here” I noted how important the prison industrial complex was, and while I really focused on the impact this had...
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