by admin | Jan 23, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Education |
Effective immediately, my university is freezing salaries, canceling all searches, and cutting budgets 10%. I’ve talked about this before, thinking that perhaps Obama needed to include the type of cultural creative work in his stimulus package that FDR included...
by admin | Jan 11, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Urban Politics |
Adrienne Brown is hot like fire. – We need ongoing supported focus on police brutality and accountability, even as we develop our own peace zones. It’s no longer sufficient to get furious when a civilian is killed by police, and maintain that fury until...
by admin | Jan 10, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
(From Makani Themba-Nixon, director of The Praxis Project) 1. Digg the story so that the national media can pick up on it 2. Contact BART Director Carole Ward Allen and demand that 1) the officers involved be taken off duty without pay and charged and fully...
by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership |
The line of the last four months has been something like the following: I’d never thought I’d live to see this happen. Of course those of us in the states, and even outside, know what “this” means. But what is going on is so much bigger. Hell I...
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