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Some Random Music: “Sexual Healing” by Hot 8 Brass Band
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXcad_Qx7aM
The Great Connie Hawkins
What YouTube was made for: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ughBO514dww
More on Gentrification and Demographic Change
This time from Washington DC, where the black population continues to decrease. From the New York Times: Washington’s black population slipped below 50 percent this year, possibly in February, about 51 years after it gained a majority, according to an … Continue reading
Nice video of Bill Russell
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWFsL4Y8RVA
How to Publish a Kindle E-book in 7 Easy Steps
After I published The Crossover earlier this week, a few people asked how hard it was to get it out on Amazon. The short answer: extremely easy. But to elucidate a bit further for anyone thinking about putting out their … Continue reading
New e-book: The Crossover
I’m very happy to announce the publication of The Crossover: A Brief History of Basketball and Race, from James Naismith to LeBron James. It’s made up of ten short chapters that move roughly chronologically from the invention of the basketball … Continue reading
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The City-Suburb Switch
The Seattle Times reported today that new housing development in the Seattle area is now almost exclusively happening near the downtown core and totally dead in the suburbs, continuing one of the underlying trends that I found so prevalent when … Continue reading
Why the NYT Obsesses on the Hamptons
A paragraph from Chris Hedges’s deft slicing of Page One, the new documentary about The New York Times: The Business section, which never appears in the film, is one of the largest in the nation. Its editors and reporters, however, completely … Continue reading
Damian Joseph featured in the Seattle Times
I recently wrote about Damian’s first year year teaching third grade at West Seattle Elementary. The Seattle Times has been following the school, which has been chosen to receive extra funds under an Obama administration initiative to improve under-performing schools. … Continue reading
