by kspence | Jan 13, 2015 | Culture
Over the past several years I’ve tried to write every day. On a good weekday I get into the office about 6:30am and try to write until around 9 or 10am, and I set a word limit of about 1500 words. I started this habit because I realized that I wasn’t...
by kspence | Apr 28, 2014 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Labor, Politics, Pop Culture, Sports |
On April 25, TMZ released a recording of Donald Sterling (owner of the Los Angeles Clippers) telling his girlfriend that he didn't want her bringing black people to his basketball games, this as the NBA itself is a predominantly black league, this as the Los...
by kspence | Apr 9, 2014 | Afrofuturism, Black Popular Culture, Culture
I mentioned a few days ago that we lost Frankie Knuckles last week at the relatively young age of 59. Frankie Knuckles was to house music as Afrika Bambaata was to hip-hop. I’m in the process of writing a piece thinking about Frankie Knuckles in tandem with...
by kspence | Jan 3, 2014 | Culture, Detroit, Imaging the City, Pop Culture, Urban Politics
Been pouring over Richard Iton’s work over the break and into the year not only for the upcoming Souls issue but also for a few projects I’m working on in 2014. I’m particularly interested in the role geography plays in black cultural production. In...
by kspence | Jan 1, 2014 | Announcements, Black Popular Culture, Culture
[mixcloud]https://x.mixcloud.com/lesterspence/in-search-of-iton-remix/[/mixcloud] On Thursday, April 21, 2013, Richard Iton, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, passed away after a long bout with leukemia. In honor of his work,...
by kspence | Jul 11, 2013 | Black Popular Culture, Culture, Hip-hop, Neoliberalism
While some would argue Magna Carter Holy Grail is Jay-Z's latest album, I'd disagree. I think it more accurate to call it a delivery system, given the technological and economic dynamics of its release. Although if you didn't cop it through Samsung,...
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