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Anatomy of a handoff: Biden’s legacy and its future
Anatomy of a handoff: Biden’s legacy and its future
A legacy can’t matter if you don’t pass it on … and if you don’t understand that its passage from one generation to the next may not be on…
Michael Eric Ross
Jul 31
Still standing, still staying
Still standing, still staying
XTwitter’s more important than whoever owns it, Elon Musk or anyone, now or any other time
Michael Eric Ross
Dec 26, 2023
A call to the Twitterverse: Stay put
A call to the Twitterverse: Stay put
We’re both the product he sells to advertisers and the object of desire for those same advertisers. For that reason, Elon Musk needs us…
Michael Eric Ross
Oct 31, 2022
The evolution will be televised
The evolution will be televised
The Jan. 6 hearings have been a lean, articulate, persuasive inquiry absorbing the beats and nuances of today’s TV. And get the popcorn…
Michael Eric Ross
Aug 7, 2022
Ladies and gentlemen, the Resistant Grays
Ladies and gentlemen, the Resistant Grays
On the Rolling Stones at 60, and why they matter more now than ever
Michael Eric Ross
Jul 11, 2022
Melvin Van Peebles: Praisesong for the s**t disturber
Melvin Van Peebles: Praisesong for the s**t disturber
Remembering the fiercely independent chameleon of black American cinema and culture
Michael Eric Ross
Sep 22, 2021
Nov. 3, 2020: The moonshot referendum on America
Nov. 3, 2020: The moonshot referendum on America
The 2020 election has been touted as a referendum on President Trump. It’s no such thing. This vote will be a survey of our tolerance for…
Michael Eric Ross
Nov 3, 2020
Once upon a time in another world
Once upon a time in another world
On life, death, distance, and normality B.C. and A.C.
Michael Eric Ross
Apr 4, 2020
Sausage making according to Joe Biden
Sausage making according to Joe Biden
Recent comments weren’t nostalgia for the good old days of segregationists in Congress. They were nostalgic for the good old days when…
Michael Eric Ross
Jun 25, 2019
Blackface history month
Blackface history month
It’s a virus that’s neither latent nor active, something we as a nation can’t shake. Not least of all because we don’t really want to.
Michael Eric Ross
Feb 25, 2019
Justine and Heather
Justine and Heather
They died in ways that African Americans recognize. They weren’t African American. Those facts complicate the old certainties about who…
Michael Eric Ross
Aug 20, 2017
Alt-American History (X)
Alt-American History (X)
Two forthcoming drama series pivoting off the Civil War show how the debate over slavery, spark of that conflict, rages in the culture, and…
Michael Eric Ross
Aug 3, 2017
For Ice Cube … one respectful rejoinder: The n-word belongs to America
For Ice Cube … one respectful rejoinder: The n-word belongs to America
Language is interactive. Black Americans can no more take sole possession of the word than America can collectively evade its role in what…
Michael Eric Ross
Jun 12, 2017
Two watershed sounds of a watershed year
Two watershed sounds of a watershed year
In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Beatles fired back-to-back broadsides on our expectations. And changed everything.
Michael Eric Ross
May 29, 2017
The wannabe emperor’s new polls, and the ones before that
The wannabe emperor’s new polls, and the ones before that
There’s context growing into the popular perception of The Donald’s manqué presidency. Never mind the snapshot, the Movie of House Trump is…
Michael Eric Ross
Apr 22, 2017
Donald Trump, the necessary unnecessary apprentice
Donald Trump, the necessary unnecessary apprentice
One week from today, his political and electoral services will begin to no longer be required. Here’s why:
Michael Eric Ross
Jan 13, 2017
An open letter to the Electors
An open letter to the Electors
Either majority rule and the constitutional principle of one person-one vote are bedrock or they are not. It’s time to call the question
Michael Eric Ross
Dec 16, 2016
The human race card: New leaders, old habits and popular culture
The human race card: New leaders, old habits and popular culture
The baseline of our national culture — who and what we mean when we talk about what it means to be American — isn’t what it used to be
Michael Eric Ross
Oct 26, 2016
Remembering Bill Cunningham, a spy in the hothouse of fashion
Remembering Bill Cunningham, a spy in the hothouse of fashion
He had the lifestyle of a monk, the instincts of a sniper and the eye of an artist. And he was a colleague and a friend of mine.
Michael Eric Ross
Jun 28, 2016
Harriet, Martin and John: America rethinks its iconography
Harriet, Martin and John: America rethinks its iconography
Those whom we revere say more about us than about those whom we revere.
Michael Eric Ross
May 1, 2016
The D-word and America
The D-word and America
We’re not having that conversation about race and ethnicity and the myriad dimensions of diversity. That conversation’s having us.
Michael Eric Ross
Feb 28, 2016
Hollywood and the Academy: When two things are the same thing
Hollywood and the Academy: When two things are the same thing
Recent attempts to carve out rhetorical space between the two entities that define the movies to the public are creating a distinction…
Michael Eric Ross
Jan 31, 2016
Hollywood, the Oscars and the other diversity
Hollywood, the Oscars and the other diversity
It’s not all about race and gender. There’s a need for more diversity in movie technology, and for industry willingness to embrace the…
Michael Eric Ross
Jan 26, 2016
Exploring ‘mulatto’ and the mixed-race disconnect
Exploring ‘mulatto’ and the mixed-race disconnect
Unpacking the tragic power of an outdated word, four academics bring their lived experience to the study of America’s mixed-race story
Michael Eric Ross
Nov 21, 2015
#BlueBirdLives: A case against ‘The Decay of Twitter’
#BlueBirdLives: A case against ‘The Decay of Twitter’
The depth of the microblogging social network’s stasis may be exaggerated. Here’s why.
Michael Eric Ross
Nov 12, 2015
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