by kspence | Mar 10, 2014 | Black Family, Gender and Politics, Labor, Neoliberalism, Obama |
Over at The Nation, Mychal Denzel Smith notes he both appreciates and is troubled by My Brother’s Keeper. Brittney Cooper echoes Smith’s primary concern that the policy is both too exclusive (ignoring women) and too respectable. If this were 1995 and we...
by kspence | Jan 14, 2014 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism
A video of a toddler cursing out his relatives has made the rounds over the past few weeks, generating a moral panic that found the toddler (briefly) separated from his mother. The video, first posted by the toddler’s uncle but then REposted by the Omaha Police...
by kspence | Jan 6, 2014 | Black Family, Media Appearances, NPR
I’ve been doing less work on Tell Me More’s The Barbershop and much more work on their parenting roundtable over the last half of 2013. I was asked to participate in an end of the year discussion about hits and misses, what i was least and most proud of...
by kspence | Jul 29, 2013 | Black Family, Black Popular Culture, Gender and Politics |
I remember when BART cops murdered Oscar Grant in 2009, because it happened just a few weeks before Obama's inaugural. I'd known that Obama's election didn't eradicate racism or classism, but the stark juxtaposition struck me, as well as the facts of...
by kspence | Nov 14, 2012 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Obama, Politics, Religion, Resistance, Urban Politics
One of the arguments Fred Harris and Michael Dawson both make in their books about post-Obama era black politics is that the "black church" is in decline, having succumbed to the prosperity gospel. Eddie Glaude went so far as to argue that black church was...
by kspence | Aug 27, 2012 | Black Family, Education |
My oldest daughter, my oldest nephew, and my oldest niece all start college this week. Below is a list I plan to expand into longer work. Please share, modify, as you see fit. 1. Experiment. 2. Find your voice. 3. Love. 4. Work hard. 5. Make friends. 6. Make enemies....
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