black culture Category Archives
Keepin’ It Fake
Published on 3 Apr 2007 at 10:52 pm.
24 Comments.
Filed under black culture, black image.
What does the term “ghetto,” used as an adjective, mean to you? In her recently-released book Ghettonation, journalist Cora Daniels defines it as a catch-all for all behaviors irresponsible, crass, impulsive, and self-destructive. In his Washington Post review thereof, Spelman professor William Jelani Cobb agrees with Daniels’ overarching point that certain elements of black culture […]
Superheroes: Urban Style
Published on 23 Mar 2007 at 9:18 am.
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Filed under positivity, black culture, entertainment, black image, art.
Okay, here’s my chance to speak on something I’m really passionate about: comic books. Yall can call me a lame if you want to but comic books have always appealed to me as a Black man. In the Marvel universe for example, mutants (X-Men) had to deal with racial discrimination, forced segregation, hatred and lynch […]
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Cherokees Vote Slave Descendants Out of Nation
Published on 4 Mar 2007 at 4:11 pm.
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Filed under racism, black culture, diaspora.
A Saturday vote by the members of the Cherokee Nation has resulted in the revocation of tribal membership from more than 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by tribe members.
76 percent of the membership voted to limit tribal classification to individuals of “by blood” descendants. Qualifications for membership were determined by a congressional commission more […]
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25 reasons being black ain’t easy
Published on 23 Feb 2007 at 1:43 am.
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Filed under black culture, television.
This Tuesday, BET aired a program called, “Top 25 Events that (Mis)Shaped Black America“. It was a nice blend of comedy and serious social commentary, hosted by one of our up-coming Blackademics interviewees Paul Mooney. An encore broadcast will air on BET this Friday, Feb. 23rd at 10pm. For those of you who have […]
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To Stand Up or to Sell Out? Black Lawmakers Support Clinton Over Obama
Published on 13 Feb 2007 at 8:02 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, black culture.
News out of South Carolina of state Senators Robert Ford and Darrell Jackson supporting presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama. Sen. Ford even went so far as to suggest that Obama leading the Democratic ticket would ”drag down the rest of the party,” by influencing the white majority of voters to change leadership in the House, […]
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The Lure of Street Life, Revealed
Published on 31 Dec 2006 at 2:47 pm.
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Filed under black culture, poverty.
The Washington Post updated its fascinating Being a Black Man series today with a profile of notorious D.C. hustler Anthony Marcellus James (aka A.J.) that delves into the complex, contradictory world of street life. This piece is my favorite of the series so far—it manages to make the motivations of drug pushers, users, and killers […]
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Umoja: Black CommUNITY
Published on 26 Dec 2006 at 11:15 pm.
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Filed under positivity, black culture, spirituality.
Greetings Blackademics! Today is the first day of Kwanzaa. For those of you who don’t know, Kwanzaa is not some imitation Christmas or Hanukkah, it is unique annual festival/celebration for people of African descent, observed from December 26th through January 1st. Founded by Maulana Ron Karenga (who we will interview here on Blackademics in 2007) […]
O.W.A. (Objectivistz Wit Attitude)
Published on 23 Dec 2006 at 9:41 pm.
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Filed under black culture, mainstream culture, entertainment.
Now this types of shit, happens all the time
You got to get yours but fool I gotta get mine. —Snoop Dogg, “Gin & Juice”
While trying to relax on a transnational flight from the West to the East coast, the timeless strains of Jibbs’ “Chain Hang Low” on repeat between my ears, I reached a frightening […]
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Food for the Beast
Published on 14 Dec 2006 at 5:32 pm.
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Filed under news/politics, black culture.
Just finished finals, I’m back home in North Carolina from Syracuse. I should be happy, right? Well, everything was all good until I opened up Durham’s local paper, the News and Observer (nothing like the local news can bring a brother down) and on the front page I see two of my boys: Kenny Cross […]
Revisiting the Tuskegee Airmen
Published on 13 Dec 2006 at 12:57 pm.
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Filed under black culture, history.
A recent story on MSNBC gives detailed information that contradicts the legend of the Tuskegee Airmen, and the group’s distinction of never losing a fighter to enemy fire.
William F. Holton, a historian for Tuskegee Airmen Inc., has found documented evidence that the famed collection of the nation’s first African-American fighter pilots indeed lost several U.S. […]
