by admin | Aug 13, 2006 | Black Family, Urban Politics |
Woke up this morning, putzing around on the desktop. “There was a car crash this morning.” What? “A car crashed into a motorcycle. The rider hit the windshield and was thrown across the street!” Damn. My daughter heard it–it woke her up....
by admin | Aug 9, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
In my most recent NPR Commentary I rail against the habit of putting articles about black male politicians in the style section. One of the reasons we don’t really know what people like Barak Obama stand for is because pundits are so concerned with their...
by admin | Aug 2, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
The hardest thing for me to do on any given day is clear the cobwebs out of my head so I can start writing. This is what I’m trying to do now…get the juices flowing. As a result this is going to ramble a bit. Yesterday, long after the cobwebs had cleared I...
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 17, 2006 | Black People Mythology, Crime and Punishment |
Over at blackprof, Prof. Shavar Jeffries makes the provacative argument that perhaps black-on-black crime should be prosecuted as hate crime. To the extent that black criminals hate their racial identity, they may actually be committing crimes against other black...
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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