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 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This video below is extra hot. Thanks to All Tayo for the link. On an unrelated note, check out The Shawn Mason Spence show where the topic of the day is black women in the entertainment industry. We know of the men, but where are the deal-making, business-moving...
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 | Education, Pop Culture, The Mass Media
Tonight my wife will be hosting a show on education: Education is being talked about across the nation, but who’s doing anything about failing school, bureaucratic mismanagement, and outdated curricula and materials? Our guests, Tonya Allen of the Skillman...
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