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Shuck and Jive vs. Bob and Weave

January 15, 2008 By: The Good Doctor Category: media Comments

Note to Andrew Cuomo: This is shuck and jive: 

This is bob and weave:

 

Salon Article deals with Obama-Clinton argument

January 15, 2008 By: The Good Doctor Category: elections, gender, media, npr 3 Comments →

The recent flap over the apparent use of the southern strategy by the Clinton campaign led me to write a longer piece about the subject that appeared in Salon yesterday.Also, in the barbershop we talked about Gloria Steinem’s recent piece on the race/gender divide in this election. 

Happy New Year (you tube)

January 02, 2008 By: The Good Doctor Category: media 7 Comments →

The Barbershop on Unwed Mothers et al

December 14, 2007 By: The Good Doctor Category: black family, media, npr 6 Comments →

Now that the semester is over, I’m back at the Barbershop. In this episode, me, Jimi Izrael, Reuben Navarette, and Roland Martin talk about among other things the increasing rate babies born to single mothers. It got pretty heated, as this is something I feel pretty strong about. Hopefully they’ll offer the extended version on the web, because we kicked this topic around for at least 20-25 minutes….

Baltimore from the view of students

December 07, 2007 By: The Good Doctor Category: media 3 Comments →

I assigned a midterm for my urban politics class that had the students go into Baltimore and write about their perspective. Here is a video that some of the students made about their experience.