In recent days there’s been a lot of blow up about the criticisms levied at President Obama by Princeton Professor Cornel West.. Many have quickly circled the wagon and attacked West claiming his critique was more personal than principled. The end result has been West being dismissed and Obama being praised as if the critiques [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice?
Posted: May 23, 2011 by Davey D in 2011 Daily NewsTags: activism, Mel Gibson, Person of color, Progressivism, Working class
This Alternet article..Are Well-Off Progressives Standing in the Way of a Real Movement for Economic Justice? is a very interesting article that addresses a topic that with each passing day is causing more and more tension in left leaning enclaves. To be honest this problem as outlined in the article has long existed but it [...]
Our Coverage of the Global Hip Hop Conference at Stanford
Posted: May 23, 2011 by Davey D in 2011 Daily NewsTags: Chuck D, Hip Hop, Jeff Chang, omar offendum, Public Enemy (band), Samy Alim, Stanford University
OLMNews covers Stanford University’s global hip-hop Symposium where renowned author Jeff Chang, Stanford professor Samy Alim & Hip-Hop icon & activist Chuck D of Public Enemy who speak on the globalization of hip-hop and it’s effect on social & economic issues worldwide. http://vimeo.com/23105736 OLMNews reporter Davey D speaks with Omar Offendum, Syrian American rapper, who [...]
Disturbing Details Emerge over SWAT Team Tuscon Masscare-Latino marine Shot 71x
Posted: May 20, 2011 by Davey D in 2011 Daily NewsThe other day, I had the displeasure of watching both our local and national news do long drawn out features of MTV’s Jersey Shore cast kick off their trip to Italy. The features went on for a good 5-6 minutes and featured on the spot interviews similar to the ‘news’ coverage given to the festivities [...]
Black Woman You’re a Queen…The Hell w/ Psychology Today!
Posted: May 17, 2011 by Davey D in 2011 Daily NewsTags: Black people, Gabrielle Union, Jill Scott, Psychology Today, Rha Goddess, Tamron Hall, Thandie Newton
The other day some magazine called Psychology Today put out an article called Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women? | Psychology Today. In this piece they ran down all sorts of backwards pseudo science ranging from Black women having higher testosterone levels on down to having mutant genes.. It was a sad [...]
Police Terrorism: Looking at the Common Controversy Beyond His Lyrics
Posted: May 12, 2011 by Davey D in 2011 Daily NewsTags: Aiyanna jones, Assata Shakur, Ayanna Jones, Common, Fraternal Order of Police, Jordan Miles, Labtekwon, White House, White House visit
The ‘outrage’ over rap star Common‘s appearance at the White House for a Poetry event is one that all of us should look at and take a long pause. It’s not so much that the Sean Hannitys and Fox News crowd went reaching for an old standby tactic-Demonize a Black person or some or some sort [...]
