by admin | Dec 10, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Reading the story Killing for Respect which is the first about black people that I’ve ever seen Digged. Note that the lack of family is mentioned in several different ways, poverty is only mentioned once.
by admin | Dec 7, 2007 | Education, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
I assigned a midterm for my urban politics class that had the students go into Baltimore and write about their perspective. Here is a video that some of the students made about their experience. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGBFd3X_hfs[/youtube]
by admin | Nov 27, 2007 | Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d73QvsWKF7s[/youtube] Ok. So what I meant was there would be less SUBSTANTIVE blogging. (not like there was a lot to begin with.)
by admin | Oct 29, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
…and Baltimore is the Detroit of the East Coast, which is why I like it here so much. Knuckle Sandwich brought to light the recent history of homicides in Oakland, pointing to a San Francisco Chronicle series on the murders. What was most interesting to me was...
by admin | Oct 22, 2007 | Urban Politics |
Things are looking up Originally uploaded by Lester Spence. I’m in Detroit for a few days. My grandmother passed away late last week (she was 87) and I’m in town for the funeral with the family. For those who routinely read this blog FROM detroit I...
by admin | Oct 13, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
Did you know that we have a problem with too many shipping containers? These days, the United States doesn’t export much, but it imports a lot, and it’s not economical to send the containers back empty, so the shipping containers just keep stacking up. One source said...
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