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Racial warfare and the battle for wisconsin (podcast)

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...

America Eat Its Parents

by admin | Feb 4, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism | 4 comments

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...

Should We think of a Single Black Man Living Alone as a Family?

by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Black Family, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm | 1 comment

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...

More about the United States Social Forum

by admin | Jul 21, 2010 | Afrofuturism, Marc Steiner Show, Neoliberalism, Politics, The Mass Media | 2 comments

A few weeks ago I was able to attend and speak at the United States Social Forum held in my hometown of Detroit, Michigan. I had a couple of different interviews about it. One conducted by Marc Steiner–this one was special to me because he interviewed my father...

Talking Black Space/White Space with Marc Steiner

by admin | Mar 10, 2010 | Marc Steiner Show, Racial Politics, The Mass Media | 1 comment

The first day of the Fall 2009 semester I was victimized by racial harassment on campus–I was asked to leave an outdoor event under the threat of security after an encounter with a staff person. Sometime that semester the good folks at The Urbanite–one of...

Another World is Possible? Spence on Haiti, Reid, and MLK Day

by admin | Jan 18, 2010 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, The Mass Media | 1 comment

Haiti is the first instance in the modern world of the enslaved taking their country back. And they’ve paid for it ever since. In talking about what’s going on in Haiti now, this is the SECOND thing that should be mentioned…as it provides context for...
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