by admin | Feb 14, 2011 | Black Leadership, Crime and Punishment, Education, Neoliberalism, Racial Politics |
Photo by Steve SnodgrassMany of you have read about Kelley Williams-Bolar, who was found guilty of two felonies (“theft” and “tampering with records”) when someone revealed that she used her father’s address to enroll her daughters in a...
by admin | Mar 10, 2010 | Marc Steiner Show, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
The first day of the Fall 2009 semester I was victimized by racial harassment on campus–I was asked to leave an outdoor event under the threat of security after an encounter with a staff person. Sometime that semester the good folks at The Urbanite–one of...
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 | Jul 30, 2009 | NPR, Obama, Racial Politics, The Mass Media |
I was on Tell Me More last week talking Michael Vick and Cat Fancy, Obama’s Health Care plan, and of course the Gates stuff. Take a listen (and now read the transcript!) here. Some of the best stuff didn’t make it to the final cut–I think this is one...
by admin | Jul 23, 2009 | Black Power, Crime and Punishment, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Racial Politics, Urban Politics |
Yesterday I dealt with the flashpoint occasion of Dr. Henry Louis Gates’ arrest and spent most of it recounting a situation that happened to me at the beginning of the last school year. Like Gates I was caught in a narrative I couldn’t get out of. It...
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