by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Hip-hop, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media |
Photo by Bob JagendorfSeveral years ago, before the crash, Chrysler rolled out a commercial featuring Chrysler mainstay Lee Iacocca and a by-this-time sanitized rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrGx2I2K18[/youtube] The commercial is...
by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism |
Photo by JKönigTwo days ago I talked about black families with Dr. Kris Marsh on the Mark Steiner Show. In briefly examining about how we got “here” I noted how important the prison industrial complex was, and while I really focused on the impact this had...
by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
Photo by SoulfullAccording to the data, black men and women are marrying at a decreasing rate, and although part of this is clearly a function of the growing incarceration of black men, that story is insufficient, as we see the same phenomenon among whites. In a...
by admin | Feb 1, 2011 | Hip-hop, Politics, Public Policy |
Photo by Ralf HeidWe routinely talk about the hip-hop generation and how this generation (and its successors) differ from those born before them. Some posit that hip-hop has the potential to generate a new movement (wonder how that plays in Egypt about now?). I did...
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