by admin | Feb 24, 2010 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm |
Last Saturday the NAACP replaced longtime Chairman Julian Bond, naming health-care administrator Roslyn M. Brock as its chairman. Brock, 44, is, like President/CEO Benjamin Jealous the first such chairman to never have experienced legal segregation. I’m mildly...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Today the NYT ran a story reporting Harlem was no longer majority black. This news is important enough to cover…and particularly interesting given the fact that New York City is no longer majority white. But the reality is that the Harlem we carry in our head?...
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Neoliberalism, Obama, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
When Obama got elected a couple of researchers conducted an experiment to see if Obama’s election would have any tangible effect on the racial achievement gap. The logic was there…there’s this thing called “stereotype threat” that causes...
by admin | Oct 6, 2009 | Neoliberalism |
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6803752[/vimeo] Not exactly….but close enough. How is this replicated and reproduced within black politics? That’s the question the second part of my trilogy will answer. Expect it about 2011/2012. When the world (according to the...
by admin | Oct 2, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Education, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over the summer the White House cut their funding to HBCUs $85 million. While they argued in response that they’ve indirectly increased aid to HBCUs alumni and concerned citizens are up in arms. Earlier today I had a discussion with a friend who detailed to me a...
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