by admin | May 16, 2011 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, The Mass Media |
Like most college-educated black men my age, reading the Autobiography of Malcolm X was like having my eyes pried open for the first time. So when I heard that Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention was finally to be released–just three days after author Manning...
by admin | May 4, 2011 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media |
Photo by Daquella maneraI heard the news Monday morning. I quickly chimed in then asking what the unemployment rate was again (8.8 but the black unemployment rate is 14.9). I asked because while I believe Obama should be affirmed for doing what he set out to...
by admin | Apr 16, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Mass Media |
I’ve been wanting to give a lecture at an Ethical Society for years, ever since my days in Saint Louis. Tomorrow I get my wish. On April 17, at 10:30am I’ll be giving a lecture entitled Race, the Death of the Public, and the Neoliberal Turn, at the...
by admin | Apr 14, 2011 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media
This year I’ve participated in a set of monthly dialogues with Marc Steiner. Although the structure of the dialogues was and is open, I’ve used this opportunity to talk about intra-racial inequality, particularly because the Steiner Show is on WEAA (Morgan...
by admin | Feb 24, 2011 | Afrofuturism, The Mass Media |
Photo by CoolB047I’ve been reading comic books since 1976. The worlds of DC and Marvel are as essential to my life as basketball, house music, and politics. About twenty years ago, around the time I entered grad school, there was a comic-book revolution of...
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...
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