by admin | Jun 30, 2006 | Black Family, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, NPR, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This was the take home message of my latest NPR Commentary. The caption focuses largely on black America’s debt. And our debt is growing. But what folks really need to get with is the fact that this is an American condition. Black people are always talking about...
by admin | Jun 27, 2006 | Announcements, Public Health
I am in Houston at the 4th Annual Summer Workshop on Health Disparities. A number of the countries best and brightest are here to talk about health disparities from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Right now I’m listening to Bill Jenkins and he’s...
by admin | Jun 24, 2006 | Afrofuturism |
I read Octavia Butler’s last book, Fledgling. I’ve talked about what Butler meant to me as an Afrofuturist. On one level Fledgling is a very simple book, attempting to answer a series of very simple questions. Reading it I can see the gears turning in...
by admin | Jun 21, 2006 | Hip-hop |
Over the weekend I had a chance to read Hip Hop Matters by S. Craig Watkins. Probably the best book of its kind in the field. It was a little formulaic in places–in order to flesh out the narrative Watkins presents brief bios of important figures in rap, and...
by admin | Jun 19, 2006 | Announcements, Black Family
I took the post below and snatched it from my old haunts. I remember the first time I heard “Song for My Father” by Horace Silver. I couldn’t have been more than five years old. My grandfather played it, and other old school classics, religiously. We...
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