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The Pretence of Hip Hop Black Leadership
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Dr. Martin Kilson
PhD
BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Dr. Martin Kilson, PhD - Hails from an African Methodist background and clergy: From a great-great grandfather who founded an African Methodist Episcopal church in Maryland in the 1840s; from a great-grandfather AME clergyman; from a Civil War veteran great-grandfather who founded an African Union Methodist Protestant church in Pennsylvania in 1885; and from an African Methodist clergyman father who pastored in an Eastern Pennsylvania milltown--Ambler, PA. He attended Lincoln University (PA), 1949-1953, and Harvard graduate school. Appointed in 1962 as the first African American to teach in Harvard College and in 1969 he was the first African American tenured at Harvard. He retired in 2003 as Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government, Emeritus. His publications include: Political Change in a West African State (Harvard University Press, 1966); Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970); New States in the Modern World (Harvard University Press, 1975); The African Diaspora: Interpretive Essays (Harvard University Press, 1976); The Making of Black Intellectuals: Studies on the African American Intelligentsia (Forthcoming. University of MIssouri Press); and The Transformation of the African American Intelligentsia, 1900-2008 (Forthcoming). Click here to contact Dr. Kilson.
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Analysis: The Spirit of Jim Crow is Alive and Well in the USA
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But this and similar incidents that take place every day illustrate that we are far from being a post-racial society. Targeting black men as ‘suspicious’ has long been a problem in Massachusetts law enforcement. (Emphasis Added) —“— ”—“What Gatesgate tells us about the persistent tenacity of racist forms in American life (simultaneously alongside an important…
But this and similar incidents that take place every day illustrate that we are far from being a post-racial society. Targeting black men as 'suspicious' has…
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Thinking About J. Max Bond, Jr. 1936-2009 – BC In Struggle Spotlight
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When a long close friend passes it’s often the friend’s soulful features that come to mind. Features that’ll be initially missed. And, for me, this was true of J. Max Bond, one of my closest friends and civil rights activist confreres. Max Bond was a person riddled-with-soul, so to speak, by which I mean a…
When a long close friend passes it's often the friend's soulful features that come to mind. Features that'll be initially missed. And, for me, this was…
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Political Analysis: Understanding The Obama Campaign Prior To Election Day
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INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW As the 2008 Obama campaign for president of the United States enters its final week before Election Day, November 4th, perhaps the best way to introduce my eleventh article on the Obama campaign is by referring to the status of the Obama campaign in state level polls around the country. I concluded my…
INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW As the 2008 Obama campaign for president of the United States enters its final week before Election Day, November 4th, perhaps the best way…
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Political Analysis – Obama’s Electoral Path to The White House (Part II)
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Fifty-three percent of registered voters in this new ABC News/Washington Post Poll call the economy the single most important issue in the election, up 12 points in two weeks to an extraordinary level of agreement. The public is cool to the bailout itself, underscoring economic uncertainty. Eight in 10 are worried about the economy’s future,…
Fifty-three percent of registered voters in this new ABC News/Washington Post Poll call the economy the single most important issue in the election, up 12 points…
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Obama’s Electoral Path to The White House (Part I)
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Mrs. Clinton beat Mr. Obama by 12 points (47 percent to 35 percent) among those [White voters] with family incomes below $50,000. By contrast, Mr. Obama beat Mrs. Clinton by five points (40 percent to 35 percent) among those earning more than $50,000. There was an education gap, too. College graduates voted for Mr. Obama…
Mrs. Clinton beat Mr. Obama by 12 points (47 percent to 35 percent) among those [White voters] with family incomes below $50,000. By contrast, Mr. Obama…
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Political Analysis: Dynamics of the Obama Campaign’s Historic Achievement
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Particularly interesting about Valerie Jarrett’s public policy career since its debut in the late 1970s-and early-1980s Harold Washington Chicago Mayoralty, has been a persistent intertwining of Jarrett’s policy function with African-American realities. As the Wall Street Journal (May 12, 2008) reports: “…Most Recently, as a board member of the committee to bring the 2016 Summer…
Particularly interesting about Valerie Jarrett's public policy career since its debut in the late 1970s-and early-1980s Harold Washington Chicago Mayoralty, has been a persistent intertwining of…
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Evaluating What New Hampshire Means for Barack Obama
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This is new. America has never seen anything like the Obama phenomenon. …There is no longer any doubt that the Obama phenomenon is real. Mr. Obama’s message of hope, healing and change, discounted as fanciful and naïve by skeptics, drew Iowans into the frigid night air by the tens of thousands on Thursday to stand…
This is new. America has never seen anything like the Obama phenomenon. ...There is no longer any doubt that the Obama phenomenon is real. Mr. Obama's…
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Think Piece: Booker T. vs. DuBois – Retrospective on the Washington/Duboisian
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I commenced Part I of this article by reflecting on the generic question that engaged the small sector of leadership and intelligentsia personalities available to African-Americans at the dawn of the Emancipation Era after the Civil War. Namely: “How do you lead the formerly enslaved Negro American?” I then proceeded to delineate the core ideas…
I commenced Part I of this article by reflecting on the generic question that engaged the small sector of leadership and intelligentsia personalities available to African-Americans…
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