by admin | Aug 3, 2007 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Gender and Politics, Urban Politics
I knew this was coming. Because we’ve been seeing this same pattern among black men. And what happens to us eventually trickles up, for good or ill. Note the last couple of paragraphs. Several experts also said that rising income for women might affect marriage...
by admin | Aug 2, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
No joke. What jumps out to me was the fact that Henry Ford (and I’m assuming they mean the hospital) buys most of their stuff from local gardeners. I know that most urban folk have gotten out of the habit of growing their own food–and sometimes it’s...
by admin | Jul 30, 2007 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
IMG_0690_1.JPG Originally uploaded by Unbowed. I visited Artscape, a local arts festival in Baltimore, for the first time. Got a chance to see an African drum/dance troupe perform. The brother in this picture was one of the oldest brothers there, and required a seat...
by admin | Jul 27, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Culture, Pop Culture |
One of the issues that I’m currently trying to work my way through deals with the politics of black cultural production. More specifically what happens to genres like rap, techno, house, as they move across space and time? To an extent this relates to issues of...
by admin | Jul 24, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Crime and Punishment, Democracy, The Mass Media
It isn’t that hard to think about how the prison industrial complex influences people who are caught up in it. Mothers and fathers have to pay massive loot to talk to their kids in jail, to even get to the prisons in some cases. Jails themselves are focused much...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership, Urban Politics |
(as an aside, why has my traffic relatively blown up off of the Jamal Bryant Empowerment Temple stuff? all i did was point folks to the site….interesting.) This global vs. local thing I’ve been working through has led to a few spinoffs that I think people...
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