On What's Invisible At Harvard: A Conversation
Argh! Why can't I email this (or maybe I can and I'm too computer illiterate to figure it out)?! Anyway, my dad is 63 and this is essentially his story, but add in a little dash of transitioning from a segregated black high school in the south during the height of the civil rights/black power movement. I'd love for him to read this.
Posted on July 21, 2011 at 8:41 pm
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On Who Were You First On The Internet?
latindoll@aol.com, after I went to the puerto rican day parade and decided passing for a Puerto Rican was more fun than being a boring ol' high yellow black chick.
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 11:22 pm
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On 10 Rap Songs On Which Ladies Outshine Their Male Counterparts
I'd take out Self-Destruction and replace it with Quiet Storm by Mobb Deep. Loved Kim on that track.
Posted on March 3, 2011 at 8:16 pm
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On Five Jingles From The Commercials Of My Childhood That I Will Probably Have Stuck In My Head Until I Die
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayjR8Qbyfc.
Posted on November 9, 2010 at 6:40 pm
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On Clash For Clunker
Mr. Wrong I missed you! So glad to read your stuff here. You were a must read for me when I was in Bmore.
Posted on July 28, 2009 at 11:46 pm
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On What's Really Pornographic? The Point of Documenting Detroit
@jfruh I would argue that the vacants take up wide swaths of Baltimore, but they are in the parts that middle class folks never see, so don't notice. And Baltimore's open-air drug markets of the 1980s and 90s should be a cautionary tale to urban planners in Detroit who think that empty lots are the solution to the problem of vacant homes. It took tremendous police presence to shut down those markets, and I'm not sure that Detroit has the kind of municipal money to make that happen. That said, I don't know what the answer is. Baltimore has benefited from suburbanites priced out of the greater DC area coming and gentrifying large areas of the city. I'm not sure that there is any similar driver in the greater Detroit area to encourage suburbanites to move back into the city.