by admin | Aug 21, 2006 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Neoliberalism, Urban Politics |
Story here. The details haven’t come out yet. I’m suspecting it’s going to be tied to seniority. But let’s say for the sake of discussion that each worker is going to get offered something like 60 grand to walk. My dad just retired from Ford....
by admin | Aug 13, 2006 | Black Family, Urban Politics |
Woke up this morning, putzing around on the desktop. “There was a car crash this morning.” What? “A car crashed into a motorcycle. The rider hit the windshield and was thrown across the street!” Damn. My daughter heard it–it woke her up....
by admin | Aug 9, 2006 | Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Neoliberalism, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
In my most recent NPR Commentary I rail against the habit of putting articles about black male politicians in the style section. One of the reasons we don’t really know what people like Barak Obama stand for is because pundits are so concerned with their...
by admin | Aug 2, 2006 | Afrofuturism, Urban Politics |
The hardest thing for me to do on any given day is clear the cobwebs out of my head so I can start writing. This is what I’m trying to do now…get the juices flowing. As a result this is going to ramble a bit. Yesterday, long after the cobwebs had cleared I...
by admin | Jul 27, 2006 | Black Family, Neoliberalism, Public Health, Public Policy, Urban Politics |
I got word today that a brother I knew indirectly (he was a member of one of the black fraternities at Michigan, and I knew some of the people he pledged with) killed himself and his wife in a murder-suicide. He left behind three children (who were in the home locked...
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