PostBourgie is hosting a running season-long discussion of the final 10 episodes of HBO’s ‘The Wire.’ Karas Lamb, a screenwriting student from Philadelphia, penned this week’s recap. If you haven’t seen the episode: SPOILERS. I’m just going to say it: not that you couldn’t have guessed three seasons ago, but McNulty is off his Read More
How does a man who was so deeply unpopular when he was alive become a universally beloved and toothless Christ figure? The holiday and the statues, for starters.
We can almost picture it: a huddle of newsmen in a windowless room in Orlando, sniggling over the mock-up of their next magazine cover. First they’re casting furtive glances at one another and making clucking noises, each afraid to offer up a real opinion. Then, all at once, they start to notice their gazes strengthen. Read More
Jill Leovy is stepping down from The Homicide Report, the Los Angeles Times‘ blog that aims to catalogue every homicide in L.A. County. As you might imagine, she has a pretty singular perspective on the reality of all that carnage.
New York City’s record low murder rate in 2007 should help bolster its rep as the safest big city in the country — something that would have been imaginable in 1990, when the city caught over 2,200 (!) bodies. Chris Mitchell of New York magazine poses a provocative theoretical question: what would it take to Read More
My dear, sweet slope: you’ve never been so slippery!
Resolved: “The low-slung style was inspired by the beltless pants worn by prison inmates. It spread through the hip-hop music community to urban neighborhoods and then to the suburbs. The style is predominantly worn by black youth.” Somehow, this has become an irrefutable black truth. Just ask David Bositis, a senior political analyst for the Read More
With undoubtedly good intentions, penned a roundtable feature in The Boston Globe on Nas, The N-word, the NAACP, and generational conflict in black America. State-of-black-America clichés ensued.
Richmond Hill High School in Queens is big enough for 1800 students. The only problem is that it has 3600.
The Obama campaign is quietly looking for ways to racist attitudes among voters going forward.
