by admin | Aug 6, 2006 | Campaigns and Elections, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, things that make you go hmm |
The most recent edition of the American Political Science Review contained an article written by John P. McCormick (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago) that presented three legitimate practices governments used in order to prevent the wealthy from...
by admin | Jul 31, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
In today’s New York Times, they acknowledge one of the hidden realities of the current economy–the growing number of men who have dropped out of the economy totally. But because the population is largely white, there isn’t even a hint of the venom...
by admin | Jul 27, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
I got word today that a brother I knew indirectly (he was a member of one of the black fraternities at Michigan, and I knew some of the people he pledged with) killed himself and his wife in a murder-suicide. He left behind three children (who were in the home locked...
by admin | Jul 26, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics, things that make you go hmm |
In response to my post on the Voting Rights Act one of my boys asked me (rhetorically) why black people don’t vote…or at the very least why we have to have voting drives to get people to even think about voting. The following abstract might help. I had a...
by admin | Jul 11, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm
A journal article published in the JAMA found that even though Americans spend double the resources on health care, they are still sicker than their British counterparts. Even after you take race and class into account. White executives in America are sicker than...
by admin | Jul 3, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Cory Booker made headlines four years ago when he tried to take on the Sharpe James regime in Newark and lost. Disgusted with the poverty, the crime, the corruption that categorized Newark, Booker took the drastic step of moving into the projects while on the City...
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