by kspence | Dec 13, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City
As we enter the second season of the nascent Occupation movement police have responded viciously. To loosely quote Stuart Hall, “the Empire strikes back.” At UC Davis, police officers sprayed protestors with pepper spray. In a video making the...
by kspence | Oct 7, 2011 | Neoliberalism, The Future of the City |
A few weeks ago for all intents and purposes, Baltimoreans re-elected incumbent Stephanie Rawlings-Blake after a fierce campaign that saw each candidate tackle the central questions of unemployment, poverty, and crime. The construction of a Baltimore Youth Prison...
by kspence | Sep 6, 2011 | The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
I’m going to begin today’s Urban Politics lecture with this question. What DOES a city sound like? It depends, right? If I think solely in terms of music even then it depends on the city. This is New York City:...
by kspence | Aug 17, 2011 | Culture, Marc Steiner Show, Political Ideology, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
In this month’s appearance on the Marc Steiner Show, I discussed cultural nationalism with Jerome Scott, Founder and member of Project South: The Institute for the elimination of Poverty and Genocide. Since we discussed Manning Marable’s biography of...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Afrofuturism, Hip-hop, NPR, The Future of the City, The Mass Media |
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...
by admin | Jan 5, 2010 | Black Power, Cash Rules Everything Around Me, The Future of the City, Urban Politics |
Today the NYT ran a story reportingĀ Harlem was no longer majority black. This news is important enough to cover…and particularly interesting given the fact that New York City is no longer majority white. But the reality is that the Harlem we carry in our head?...
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