Baltimore
It wasn’t long ago, just over three months, in fact, that we were glued to our televisions, Continue reading Baltimore, St. Louis and beyond: profiles in gross disparities and deprivation | #BlackLivesMatter on Blog#42
Tag Archives: #Poverty
Bernie Sanders’ speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | Blog#42
My essay on Bernie Sanders’ approach to BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, Continue reading Bernie Sanders’ speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | Blog#42
The Fed, economists, and African American #unemployment | Blog#42
Precious little is written anymore about economic policy and Black unemployment. Continue reading The Fed, economists, and African American #unemployment | Blog#42
The benefit of teaching #philosophy in early education | Blog#42
Should we teach philosophy to children?
Continue reading The benefit of teaching #philosophy in early education | Blog#42
The best of the press (so far) on Bernie Sanders | Blog#42
Most of us are very familiar with the achievements and views of Bernie Sanders, the Senator, but not with the story and remarkable achievements of Bernie Sanders as a young man and, later, a mayor.
Here are two excerpts of articles about Sanders’ early years.
Continue reading The best of the press (so far) on Bernie Sanders | Blog#42
Harry Houck: an exemplar of supremacist indoctrination
A May 19th CNN panel compared the handling of the Waco, Texas biker gang by Texas police, and the media’s depiction of this weekend’s events as compared to the unrest in Baltimore, Maryland, just two weeks earlier. The panel included journalists Charles M. Blow and Sally Kohn, and former law enforcement officer Harry Houck. Later that evening, the same panelists reconvened on CNN Tonight with Don Lemon to reprise the conversation they had earlier with anchor Brooke Baldwin.
Continue reading Harry Houck: an exemplar of supremacist indoctrination
Bebo Valdes and The Roots of #HipHop | The Miracle of Candeal on Blog#42
The late pianist, Bebo Valdes, took part in “The Miracle of Candeal,” a documentary about youth in one of the most segregated and poor areas of Brazil. Continue reading Bebo Valdes and The Roots of #HipHop | The Miracle of Candeal on Blog#42
#Baltimore and Race-based Residential #Segregation | Jared Bernstein | #Economy on Blog#42
While the protests and riots in Baltimore in recent days were critically triggered by yet another death of a young black man interacting with the police, there are of course many other forces at work.
Mike Fletcher, a journalist at the Washington Post, has made important contributions to the poverty/economics beat in recent years. But Fletcher has also lived in Baltimore for decades, and his perspective on recent events is particularly germane.
William Jefferson Clinton was not our first Black president, Hillary won’t be the second
To set the mood for the subject of this piece, the things we think we hear versus the things that are actually said Continue reading William Jefferson Clinton was not our first Black president, Hillary won’t be the second
MLK died warning us about inequality back in the 60’s | Social #Activism on Blog#42
I came across an excellent mash-up of segments from Martin Luther King’s speeches on poverty and the end of an interview of James Baldwin in PBS’ “The Negro and The American Promise.” These two men expressed, in ten minutes and fifty three seconds, far more than Thomas Piketty did in a seven hundred-page book. Continue reading MLK died warning us about inequality back in the 60’s | Social #Activism on Blog#42