by admin | Jan 10, 2009 | Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
(From Makani Themba-Nixon, director of The Praxis Project) 1. Digg the story so that the national media can pick up on it 2. Contact BART Director Carole Ward Allen and demand that 1) the officers involved be taken off duty without pay and charged and fully...
by admin | Jan 7, 2009 | Black Power, Obama, The Mass Media |
The New York Times features an article about the challenges the CBC faces in the upcoming term, what with a black President and all. The article has many of the challenges that journalistic accounts of black politics has–confusing age and ideology, ignoring the...
by admin | Jan 1, 2009 | Afrofuturism, Black Leadership |
The line of the last four months has been something like the following: I’d never thought I’d live to see this happen. Of course those of us in the states, and even outside, know what “this” means. But what is going on is so much bigger. Hell I...
by admin | Dec 26, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Culture, Neoliberalism |
Important tidbits in a growing story: College endowments drop like a rock. In earlier news, NPR decides to drop News and Notes. Newspapers like the Detroit Free Press go virtual, while other newspapers won’t survive 2009. Book publishers have slashed their...
by admin | Dec 24, 2008 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Obama, Public Policy, The Future of the City |
Historians (rightly) rap Obama, arguing his stimulus package is weak. As students of American history, we are heartened by your commitment to a jobs stimulus program inspired by the New Deal and aimed at helping “Main Street.” We firmly believe that such a...
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