by kspence | Jun 28, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Education, Hip-hop, The Mass Media
Tagged "the world's premier forum for debate" Intelligence Squared recently partnered with Google to conduct a debate on hip-hop, featuring almost a dozen scholars, activists, policy analysts, with a couple of MCs thrown in to boot. The debate lasted for...
by kspence | Jun 21, 2012 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Next week I go home for my annual "trip up north." Get a chance to see my family, get a chance to go to the baddest boat ride in North America, and get a chance to do some work. I came across the following proposal, called Imaging Detroit: Imaging...
by kspence | Jun 20, 2012 | Education, Neoliberalism |
Last week, the University of Virginia's Board of Governors forced its President Teresa Sullivan to leave after only two years on the job. Thousands of students and alumni have mobilized in response. One University Professor submitted a letter of resignation in...
by kspence | Jun 19, 2012 | retrograde |
On February 2, 2008, I had the closest thing to a nervous breakdown I'd ever experienced. I literally stayed in bed the entire weekend exhausted and scared. Scared I was going to lose my job, the house, my family. Tying my feelings to my job, I made three phone...
by kspence | Jun 18, 2012 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Education, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
A couple of weeks ago we held the finals of The Baltimore Mixtape Project. It was the kickoff event of Mobilizing and Organizing from Below. The event was far better than I could've possibly imagined, particularly given its shoestring nature. Most importantly it...
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