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 | Jan 24, 2011 | Black Family, Education, Neoliberalism |
The phrase “tiger mom” returns approximately 36,200,000 hits on Google. As the parent of five black children Amy Chua’s tale all too easily resonates with me. I remember with crystal clarity the moment we took our oldest son out of daycare several...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Education, Gender and Politics |
Photo by EPIC FUWilliam Julius Wilson was one of the first social scientists doing work on race to connect the dying industrial economy to the growing number of single (black) mothers. So instead of pushing for more resources to single mothers, what does he do? Push...
by admin | Jun 24, 2010 | Announcements, Gender and Politics, Neoliberalism, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media |
And I’ve been here soaking it all in. Several thousand men, women, and children in downtown Detroit, and we can scarcely get a mention from the mainstream press, while the Tea Party continues to soak up bandwidth. I’d say “amazing” but of...
by admin | Mar 8, 2010 | Black Power, Gender and Politics, Public Policy |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfYvL4wnWeY[/youtube] Above Dr. L’Hereux Lewis gives a keynote lecture at Morehouse College, his alma mater, about the issue of “black male privilege”, something that may seem contradictory to some of us given...
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