by admin | Oct 24, 2008 | Crime and Punishment, Gender and Politics, Racial Politics, The Mass Media, Urban Politics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IszjevYoS6A[/youtube] Many of us thought this story sounded funny when it was first reported. And Prof. Lacewell is right to note that things have changed a great deal since the Susan Smith hoax (and incidentally the Carol...
by admin | Oct 17, 2008 | Afrofuturism, Campaigns and Elections, Urban Politics |
A while back I noted the powerful black party discipline that attended Obama. Rather than take the opportunity to talk about ideas, about what we would actually want from an Obama presidency, we talked more about getting him over that electoral hump. To the point of...
by admin | Jul 12, 2008 | Black Family, Black Leadership, Black Power, Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, Obama, The Mass Media, Urban Politics |
Amiri Baraka wrote a long letter to members of the black left before the June Black Radical Congress Meeting. You can find the entire speech here but I first found out about it over at P6. I can boil down the speech without doing too much damage to the following...
by admin | Jul 5, 2008 | Black Power, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
My colleague and fraternity brother Darryl McMiller wrote today about the connection between the subprime mortgage crisis and the vicious land grabs that were commonplace in the South during the Jim Crow era in particular. There are some very important differences...
by admin | Jun 22, 2008 | Black Family, Gender and Politics, Urban Politics |
Jimi asked a bunch of us this question, and one of my partners already weighed in. I wish I had an answer that would pass muster. I don’t. I can, like Cobb did, pull from a list of my boys–good men all–and use that as some sort of barometer. The...
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