by kspence | Nov 26, 2012 | Media Appearances, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media
I've known Melissa Harris-Perry since 1999. I wrote a blurb for her most recent book Sister Citizen. I'm going to talk about this more later, but this past weekend I was on her show for the first time, talking a bit about family, and also about the progressive...
by kspence | Jul 9, 2012 | The Future of the City, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
I usually time my trip back to Detroit to coincide with my fraternity's boat ride. But there are a couple of conferences that occurred at the same time. The first is the Allied Media Conference, sponsored every year by Allied Media Projects. Dozens of sessions...
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 | Nov 8, 2011 | Sports, The Mass Media |
This morning I received word that Smoking Joe Frazier passed away from liver cancer. I wasn’t really a boxing fan, but while it’s quite possible now to grow up never seeing a boxing match live or on television (my children have never seen a match), it...
by kspence | Oct 8, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
I wrote my first word-processed high school paper (and every high school paper after that) on an Apple IIc that I believe my parents still own. I wrote every undergraduate paper between 1987 and 1990 on a Mac. Every academic paper after 2004, every blog entry, NPR...
by kspence | Sep 27, 2011 | The Mass Media
Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture at Duke University created Left of Black, a video webcast devoted to exploring black politics, life, and culture, from a decidedly left perspective. I was featured on this week’s episode which you can see...
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