by admin | Feb 24, 2010 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Neoliberalism, things that make you go hmm |
Last Saturday the NAACP replaced longtime Chairman Julian Bond, naming health-care administrator Roslyn M. Brock as its chairman. Brock, 44, is, like President/CEO Benjamin Jealous the first such chairman to never have experienced legal segregation. I’m mildly...
by admin | Feb 3, 2010 | Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
This month The Urbanite is running an issue on “Race”. I was asked by the editor to write about the phenomenon of “self-segregation”. So rather than pen a piece about black kids deciding to sit all by themselves, I took another approach. I...
by admin | Feb 1, 2010 | Black Leadership, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
About an hour before Obama’s State of the Union Address, I had the pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at Hobart and William Smith College. My talk “Constructing Pookie: The Politics of the Black Male Crisis” was sponsored by The Fisher Center for...
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