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 | Jan 14, 2011 | Crime and Punishment, Neoliberalism, Political Ideology |
I just came across an article in Salon about Grover Norquist. Norquist, a staunch anti-tax advocate has helped to organize a conservative prison reform group, Right on Crime. A quick look at their statement of principles sees a reliance on neoliberal...
by admin | May 28, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy for 7-year-old Aiyana Jones last Saturday. On the previous Sunday, May 16, 2010, Jones was killed by Detroit police officers during a raid of a home harboring a 34-year-old suspected of the murder of a 17-year-old high school student....
by admin | Jul 24, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Education |
…isn’t that a black Harvard professor was arrested by police. The real story–one that you won’t see on Anderson Cooper 360–is that Harvard is going broke. (Thanks Farai for dropping it on me.) Quick college finance 101–colleges and...
by admin | Jul 23, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Yesterday I dealt with the flashpoint occasion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest and spent most of it recounting a situation that happened to me at the beginning of the last school year. Like Gates I was caught in a narrative I couldn’t get out of. It...
by admin | Jul 22, 2009 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Education |
In 1991 Lawrence Kasdan directed the film Grand Canyon, starring Steve Martin, Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Mary McDonnell, and Mary Louise-Parker. Set in Los Angeles, the film traces the way a series of disconnected events ultimately connect and to a certain extent...
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