Ta-Nehisi Coates v Cornel West: Black Academics and Activists Give Their Verdict



Reader Supported News
23 December 17
It's Live on the HomePage Now: 
Reader Supported News

FOCUS | Ta-Nehisi Coates v Cornel West: Black Academics and Activists Give Their Verdict 
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornel West. (photo: Andre Chung/Getty Images and David Levene/Guardian) 
Melvin Rogers, Patrisee Cullors, Carol Anderson and Shailja Patel, Guardian UK 
Excerpt: "In a blistering Guardian article last Sunday, Harvard scholar Cornel West labelled award-winning African American author Ta-Nehisi Coates the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle. A furious debate raged all week among black academics and activists." 
READ MORE
Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter



Comments

Post a Comment

MOST POPULAR

NYT Editorial Board cites POGO

Image
The New York Times  Editorial Board weighed in on Pentagon spending this week POGO Quoted in NYT Editorial Board Opinion The New York Times  Editorial Board weighed in on Pentagon spending this week: "Yet the ground troops who are doing the actual fighting say there is no crisis, according to the analyst Mark Thompson of the Center for Defense Information at the Project on Government Oversight. Other experts say claims of a deteriorating military are exaggerated." Read More: "The Pentagon Is Not a Sacred Cow" Homeland Security Watchdog Finds Government Abuse at Detention Center A series of surprise inspections found immigrant detainees were subject to unnecessary strip searches, waited days for urgent medical care, and were placed in solitary confinement for minor infractions, among other issues. Read more As Clock Ticks Down on Warrantless-Surveillance Authority, Congress Races to the Bottom With just weeks before a controvers...
Read more

MASSterList: Who knew what | ‘I am president’ | Yahoo calling

Subscribe   Archives   Twitter   Facebook   Instagram This email may be cut off by your email provider. To see today's full MASSterList, click "View entire message" at the bottom, or view the online version  here. By Jay Fitzgerald and Keith Regan 02/08/2018 Who knew what | ‘I am president’ | Yahoo calling Happening Today   Health connector, Senate session, JetBlue strike, ‘Lucky’ the lottery terminal   -- The  Boston Foundati on, the  Barr Foundation  and  A Better City  co-host a forum to release ‘The Transportation Dividend: Transit Investments and the Massachusetts Economy,’ Boston Foundation, 75 Arlington St., 3rd Floor, 8:30 a.m. -- The  Supreme Judicial Court  will hear six cases, John Adams Courthouse, Courtroom One, Second Floor, Pemberton Square, Boston, 9 a.m. -- Secretary of Health and Human Services  Marylou Sudders  chairs a meeting of the Health Connector B...
Read more

Frank Rich | Donald Trump Will Never Cross the NRA

Image
24 February 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News WE FEEL THE LOVE BUT WE BADLY NEED FUNDING: We are getting a lot of very positive and very supportive feedback. Thank you. The love is great, but we have to get some donations flowing. You can do this! / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Frank Rich | Donald Trump Will Never Cross the NRA  Frank Rich, New York Magazine Rich writes: "By unleashing a wave of student anger and activism, the slaughter in Parkland may be shaking up the intractable American gun debate." READ MORE Rick Gates departs U.S. District Court on February 14, 2018, in Washington. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP) ALSO SEE:  What Rick Gates' Guilty Plea Means for Mueller's Probe Rick Gates Pleads Guilty and Begins Cooperating With Mueller's Russia Investigation Carrie Johnson, NPR Johnson writes: "Rick Gates, the business partner of Donald Trump's former ca...
Read more

Matt Taibbi | James Comey, the Would-Be J. Edgar Hoover

Image
18 April 18 PM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News MY DONATION, YOUR WORK - I am extremely grateful for the immense service you provide with RSN. So much of my information comes from the brilliant articles RSN publishes, both with your own writers and those from other services. The perspective I get from your articles is invaluable to my overall view of the world. Please do keep up your important work, and I hope my $50 contribution today helps. It certainly will not be the last. Peace. / Freebo, RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Matt Taibbi | James Comey, the Would-Be J. Edgar Hoover  Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Taibbi writes: "In denying that he was angling to be a modern Hoover, James Comey more often than not seems to be confirming it. The possible resurgence of such figures gives us one more thing to worry about in an era already chock-full of political dangers." READ MORE US soldiers in Afghanistan. (photo: Parwi...
Read more

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: CLARK on PELOSI, flipping the House — GONZALEZ files signatures — DEVAL on ‘conscious capitalism’

Image
CLARK on PELOSI, flipping the House — GONZALEZ files signatures — DEVAL on ‘conscious capitalism’ 05/02/2018 07:14 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.  Hope you're ready to hit the mid-80s in Boston today! KATHERINE CLARK ON PELOSI AND HER OWN HIGHER ASPIRATIONS -  Rep.  Katherine Clark  not only represents the Massachusetts 5th district but also co-chairs the DCCC's Red to Blue initiative charged with flipping red seats around the country into the hands of Democrats. In an interview with me from a coffee shop in Melrose yesterday, Clark had some interesting things to say... First - She's not 100 percent behind Nancy Pelosi's return to the speakership . Clark may have been behind a Pelosi fundraiser in Boston on Monday - Clark tells me the  fundraiser at the Liberty Hotel  raised $1 million - but she's no...
Read more

Here's What the US Supreme Court Has Said About the Crime-Fraud Exception

Image
Here's What the US Supreme Court Has Said About the Crime-Fraud Exception Since 1989, federal district and appellate courts have taken a variety of sometimes conflicting approaches to open questions...  Read More Stormy Daniels Lawyer Avenatti Fights to Save Huge Punitive Award Against Kimberly-Clark U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee whacked a $450 million award down to $20.7 million in a California class action over “leaky”...  Read More Mick Mulvaney Defends Enforcement Record, or Lack Thereof, at CFPB “Let me be very clear to everyone: We are still going after bad actors,” Mulvaney told lawmakers Wednesday in Washington,...  Read More ADMINISTRATIVE LAW   |   NEWS HHS Lawyer Now Agency's Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration By Kristen Rasmussen HHS Principal Deputy General Counsel Heather Flick will fill the role until that position is filled permanently. She...  Read More CIVIL...
Read more

Must Reads: R. Kelly's #MeToo reckoning, Charlie Rose's enablers, and Erik Prince's China

Image
Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. When national arts reporter Geoff Edgers started working on his penetrating look at years of sexual abuse allegations involving R&B superstar R. Kelly, he was worried he wouldn't be able to uncover anything new. Kelly's behavior, which included marriage to then-15-year-old singer Aaliyah and a video that appeared to show him having sex with a 14-year-old, was well known. But Edgers, with encouragement from his editor, Christine Ledbetter, focused his reporting on the industry that enabled Kelly's career to flourish amid one disturbing scandal after another.  "How do you ignore something like this for so long?" Edgers said he asked himself. "How does that happen? You trace it back to the money, and who are the people who benefited?" Edgers, who also hosts a podcast called Edge of Fame, called, emailed and texted the people who knew the answers to those questions dozens of time...
Read more