At The River I Stand, Watching The Wire: Black America in 2008 & Beyond


Michael Partis
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The Writings of Michael Partis
Michael Partis
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Michael is Chief Research and Policy Officer for Young Movement Inc. He also is the co-founder and co-director of The Bronx Brotherhood Project, a community-based youth development program designed to provide college readiness and adult male mentorship to low-income Bronx Black and Latino high school males.
Born, raised, and currently living in the South Bronx, he is a political economist, ethnographer, and educator. His writing centers on how innovation and diversity becomes the expertise and cultural capital of millenials. Michael's work in local communities focuses on practices and models that create sustainability, and economic development premised on entrepreneurship, local ownership, social mission-orientated private sector efforts, and the development of small and medium sized businesses.
He has been a contributing writer for the Hip-Hop website Real Talk NY.net and the sports newsletter the TSA Report ; a blogger for the Black culture magazine The Liberator Magazine; and writer/editor of the blog "Ambitionz Az a Writer" www.michaelpartis.blogspot.com
1 comment:
I just finished reading your article about Obama & the wire.
The many points in your article have truly made me think. Very powerful article that I will refer many people to read and also think about.
I also wonder wheres P.Diddy at know yelling VOTE OR DIE. Where chuck D,Nas and the rest of hiphop artist making sure that they get our their vote?
Great job with this article.
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