Michael E Ross

Editor | Author | Web Producer | Blogger | Journalist@large | short-sharp-shock.blogspot.com

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Barack’s frank talk

With a speech seventeen minutes long, President Obama made another bid for the start of a conversation we as a nation desperately don’t want to have. Which is, of course, the problem

Michael E Ross7 min read

Upon further further review

Ray Rice, the NFL and the demands of our visual, forensic culture

Michael E Ross7 min read

The Justice Brothers

Whether it’s a highway patrolman or the Attorney General of the United States, law enforcement is personal to an African American cop.

Michael E Ross6 min read

Ferguson Nation: Michael Brown, Ezell Ford and the war at home

Welcome back to the occupation. The one we’ve been living under for years.

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Why genres don’t matter

A record exec once told me that the reason they had to categorize music by genre was so people would know where to find it in the record…

Claudia Perry14 min read

The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back

Across the U.S., fast food workers are asking: “What am I worth?”

Sarah Kendzior20 min read

San Francisco’s (In)Visible Class War

What you can learn by talking to homeless folks

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