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Who was Malcolm X?

by admin | May 16, 2011 | Black Leadership, Black Power, Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, The Mass Media | 3 comments

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...

Talking Obama and Osama

by admin | May 4, 2011 | Black Leadership, Marc Steiner Show, NPR, Obama, Politics, The Mass Media | 1 comment

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...

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...

Creating the future of the city through Hip-Hop

by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop, NPR, The Future of the City, The Mass Media | 1 comment

Photo by Sam HowzitIn December I had the chance to participate in a discussion about the future of Baltimore moderated by Dan Rodricks. The panelists included Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III (President of UMBC), Baltimore novelist Madison...
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