Buried in Businessweek online late November wasan article on the amount of wealth owned by Ivy League schools. I didn’t find the articles interesting per se, UNTIL I noticed aseries of articles being ran The Times in December abouthow HYP are offering reduced and or no loan tuition tofamilies with incomes between $120 and $180K. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
The Ivy League and the IIlusion of Accessbility
Monday, December 31st, 2007What do Denzel and Lupe have in Common?
Monday, December 31st, 2007So its Christmas. The gifts have been unwrapped. Dinner has been consumed. Its time to graze on over to the movies. The choice apparent was The Great Debaters. It made sense seeing as it was THE Black holiday movie. I walked out of their feeling proud, angry, sad and inspired. But doesn’t good art do [...]
Music Writers Have it Hard
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Peep Eliott Wilson get in the gristle about actually receiving threats of violence for some of his Hip Hop reviews. Stakes is High man. Dres (from Black Sheep) We all know what majestic masterwork A Wolf In Sheep?s Clothing was but I had the unfortunate job of being the first one to inform my fellow [...]
NetFlix Review: Half Nelson had SO MUCH Potential
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Shareka Epps is magnificent. I was so looking forward to watching this DVD. It was the first one that I Netflixed when I reactivated myaccount last month.I’m was juiced. I had the Trader Joes 2 buck chuck, wasabi snacksand carmel pop corn cracking, ready to go. So I am watching it, for ten minutes, and [...]
Tatiana Killed Someone.
Thursday, December 27th, 2007I like Zoo’s. Last December, around Christmas, I went to theSan Francisco Zoo with my dad. That was the first time I encountered Tatiana. She was magnificent. The following day,Tatiana chewed on her feeders arm. The feeder was wounded and hospitalized. There was an investigation. And the feeding system wasredesigned so as to make it [...]
Model Minority ::: Best Posts of the Year
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Hot Links, get it? There is something about the end of the year thathas you on reflective mode. The air gets crispier, you get a little but morethankful for your family, or depressed becausethere are some folks who simply aren’t around for one reason or another. And then there is the year end list. I [...]
2007 Blog Link Wrap Up.
Monday, December 24th, 2007Its all in the title. Out of the millions of sites and blogs out there,there are some that we bookmark and forward to our friends,and even write about ourselves. In that spirit, I present to youa collection of links. These sites either have a dope premise, amazing contentor a combination of both. Please peruse them [...]
Obama’s Dance with White Folks
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Frank Rich had me going. Up, then down, then up again. All while reading about Obama. A lot of ink has been spilled on Obama and the White vote,but what these articles don’t mention is that Black folks haveto do a VERY similar dance every day. We constantly monitor our Blackness. We monitor itduring small [...]
There is Something about Missy Elliott
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Missy Elliott single handedly changed the game. In recent history, pop music has dictated that Black womenmust aspire to Pam Grier esque beauty if they wantto even consider getting any burn. In addition the female artists sex andsexuality is usually core component of image. Trina, Kim, Khia’s career all reflect this fact. Miss simply did [...]
