by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Democracy, Urban Politics |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzeezIsTZ_o[/youtube] I’ve already linked to part of Bill Moyers’ interview with Grace Boggs. But the video expands on some of it, and emphasizes a couple of points that bear consistent repetition:1. We have to...
by admin | Jul 12, 2007 | Urban Politics |
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/GM_kj4RD1_M” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]I was just asked to participate in a conference on the Baltimore riots of 68. Being more of a Detroit guy than a...
by admin | Jul 11, 2007 | Gender and Politics, Public Health, Public Policy |
I just received an email yesterday about Randy Parker, who committed suicide at the age of 23. Condolences go out to his mother, father, and extended family. While I maintain that we are and have been a resilient people, able to deal with a lot more (because...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Culture, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve been reading comics now for thirty years. Two of the first websites I read everyday are Comic Book Resources and Newsarama. Rich Johnston, one of their columnists has been writing a gossip column (“Lying in the Gutters”) of sorts,...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Just picked up this story about a minute ago. The “broken windows” strategy that Giuliani used in New York City to successfully harass and intimidate (largely black and Latino) working class New Yorkers had already been persuasively debunked. Even James Q....
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