Bøger af Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In Is Biden Really Too Old? -The Politics of Age and Ageism in America, political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson takes a laser look at the great debate over Biden's age. He assesses how much of a liability age poses for Biden. He examines how Reagan and 2008 GOP presidential candidate John McCain dealt with the age issue. He presents the varying views of medical professionals about Biden's age as a factor. He details research and studies on aging and the performance of older Americans. He examines the negative stereotypes, views, and typecasting of older Americans depicted in advertising, films, and much of the media and voiced by many Americans. He details what the Constitution and the Founding Fathers wrote and said about age and politics. Hutchinson contends that aging has had a profound effect on American politics. Finally, he asks whether age would be the deal breaker for Biden in his bid to stay in the Oval Office in 2024.

"In his 1970 book The Myth of Black Capitalism, Earl Ofari Hutchinson laid out a rigorous challenge to the presumption that capitalism, in any shape or form, has the potential to rectify the stark injustices endured by Black people in America. Ofari engaged in a diligent historical review of the participation of African Americans in commercial activity in this capitalist country, demonstrating conclusively that the creation of a class of Black capitalists failed to ameliorate the extreme inequity faced by African Americans. Even "Buy Black" campaigns which aimed to "keep resources in the community," he showed, reinforced a Black bourgeoisie which often enough exploited the Black underclass to increase their own wealth. Whether Black capitalists dared to go up against, or merely tried to find their place amongst, giant monopoly corporations, Ofari argued they would make little substantive progress in the lives of Black people. And whether calls for "Black capitalism" came from within the Black Power movement for Black economic autonomy, or were appropriated by the old-line Black elite, in the end the promotion of the myth of "black capitalism" was a project of the Black elite which solely served the interests of the capitalist managerial class"--

In Thomas's America, political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson brings his extensive writings and analysis of SCOTUS justice Clarence Thomas during Thomas's decades on the high court to bear. He assesses the Thomas phenomena and its impact on law, public policy, and race in America. He examines the controversies that have swirled around Thomas from his ultra-conservative political and ideological rigidity to charges of ethics, and financial improprieties, as well as his borderline legal cozying with rightist billionaire backers. He presents a frightening view of how Thomas would reshape America as a power broker on the SCOTUS.Thomas's America presents a revealing, and critical but always fascinating look at a high court judge. The judge who has been a major flashpoint of controversy on and off the court for three decades plus.

In Inside Urban Ballroom Dancing, I take the reader on a short tour of the history of ballroom dancing, how it came to be like much of dance, pop, and jazz music; a unique part of the Black experience. I Then detail some of the popular basics of urban ballroom dancing. Inside Urban Ballroom Dancing is not meant to be the definitive, expert work on urban ballroom dancing. It's simply one person's deep appreciation of the importance and impact it has had on me and the belief that it can have that same impact on many others. This short homage to urban ballroom dancing is simply my way of showing my appreciation for it.

In Warning: Driving May be Hazardous to Black Health political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson examines why many brand driving accidents a public health peril because they pose a greater danger to Blacks and minorities. He details the tortured history of the fight by traffic safety reform advocates and government agencies for greater traffic safety. He assesses the prime causes of the cyclical fall and rise in vehicle deaths. He intersperses his assessment of the post-pandemic driving death surge among Blacks with the case of Nicole Linton. She typifies many of the problems and challenges public, officials, local and national government agencies, law enforcement, and vehicle safety experts face in the ongoing battle to reduce vehicle deaths. Warning: Driving May be Hazardous to Black Health presents an eye-opening look at the mounting peril on the roads for Blacks, as well as Latinos, and Native Americans who also have a disproportionate death rate from vehicle accidents as well as many other Americans. It's more. It's also an urgent call for greater action

From King to Obama: Witness to a Turbulent History conveys the exhilaration the author feels at having walked in the shadow of history of a Dr. King, a Miles Davis, a John Lennon, a Bob Marley, and many others. Hutchinson's mission is to make the reader feel the exhilaration he felt meeting, talking with, interviewing and personally engaging with as a journalist, broadcaster, and activist the people whose monumental accomplishments affected the lives of millions over a half century from the mid-1960s to the first decade of the 21st Century.

Ground Breaking New Book by Political Analyst and Noted Author Earl Ofari Hutchinson Examines the Nation's Hot Button Political Issues in Spanish The First Book by an African-American Author Written Completely in Spanish for Spanish Language Readers Political analyst and noted author Earl Ofari Hutchinson's landmark new book Political Los Pensamientos de las Políticas Controversiales (thoughts on controversial political issues) is a wide ranging, hard hitting book that tackles the hot button political issues that have torn the nation. The topics include abortion, relations with Cuba, the GOP and President Obama, the health care battles, the myths about Nelson Mandela, the turmoil in the Catholic Church, and the fight over Gay Marriage. "The book sends many messages about language and politics," says Hutchinson, "But most importantly my aim is to enrich the social and political literary life of the nation through the adept use of Spanish by an American writer." He escrito diez libros en inglés de temas diversos. Todos han sido escritos en inglés. Principalmente, han sido acerca de temas políticos, sociales, y especialmente sobre racismo. The book is groundbreaking in one more sense. It is the first work by an African-American writer on controversial political and social issues written by the author and published purely in Spanish. The author wanted this book to be a bridge between Spanish speaking readers concerned about the compelling political issues in the United States and beyond and English language American authors. No deseo que, Los Pensamientos de las Políticas Con-troversiales sea leído y discutido solamente entre los hispanos a los que les gustan las ideas políticas. Al final, quiero que el libro represente una inspiración para que ot-ros negros escriban, lean y discutan los temas controver-siales con un amplio número de personas de varias identidades en los Estados Unidos y en otros paises. "The issues examined in the book were chosen both to deal with some of the most controversial issues in recent days but also to appeal to a wide range of readers both English and Spanish speaking, "says Hutchinson," who regularly debate, discuss, and engage in action on the range of issues and causes that Los Pensamientos addresses.

In Griner, noted political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson goes beneath the surface in her case. He examines the issues of race, gender, celebrity, the disparities in men's and women's pro sports, politics, and war that are deeply embedded in the Griner saga. Hutchinson places her arrest against the backdrop of the escalation in tensions between Russia and the U.S. over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hutchinson asks did that make her a political pawn in the jockeying between the two countries over the war as many charged? Griner is a fast, paced, laser look at how one pro basketball player, became for the moment, much more than just a basketball player.

In The Chokehold, political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson details the controversy over police and civilian use of chokeholds, how the courts, the police and the public view the use of chokeholds, and the always lurking issue of racial bias in its use. Hutchinson asks, is it a legitimate tactic to protect, or a deadly cause of physical mayhem. The Chokehold confronts that challenging and troubling question.

A Skeptic's Journey through the Yoga Experience takes a hard and personal look by one who once held deep skepticism about yoga at the history, the myths, the controversies, the practice, the philosophy, the growth, commercialism of, and impact of yoga. It examines the racial and gender conceptions and controversies that confront yoga.

"In the three-year period from 2015 to 2017, I covered and analyzed every aspect of the speeches, utterances, and positions Trump posited during his presidential campaign on civil rights, voting rights, criminal justice and police abuse, and education in my featured columns in the Huffington Post. My special emphasis was on the impact a Trump candidacy and presidency would have on race relations and African-Americans. The Trump Challenge to Black America is based on those columns. I have expanded those columns with added material, fresh assessments, and a detailed look at the direction Trump has taken the country in since his election. The conclusion is the same as in my columns. Trump poses the greatest challenge and peril of any president in modern times to black Americans. The Trump Challenge is a hard hitting laser look at that peril and what black Americans can do about it."--

A Skeptics Journey Through the Yoga Experience takes a hard and personal look at the history, myths, controversies, philosophy, the practice, the growth, commercialism of, and the impact of Yoga. The book examines the racial, gender conceptions and controversies that confront Yoga. A must for Yoga

Beethoven and Me: A Beginner's Guide to Classical Music is a fast paced, easy to understand survey of the music's well-known and not so well-known composers, their music and their struggles for recognition. Hutchinson brings a fresh and his very personal perspective in discussing them and their music.

Fifty years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson, in his new book, 50 Years Later: Why the Murder of Dr. King Still Hurts (Middle Passage Press), March 2018, takes an in-depth look at the lingering doubts and disbelief about the official version of the murder of Dr. King and how that shaped events of the next fifty years.Hutchinson presents14 pages of FBI memos, files, notes, minutes of meetings, and letters from the final report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations in 1976 that have rarely been fully presented and cited in their entirety. It's entitled, "The FBI Plans Its Campaign to Discredit Dr. King." This includes the FBI's 21 proposals to obliterate King as an African-American leader. The materials are the FBI's own words detailing the full scope of its plan to destroy King. Many of the details in the campaign have never been presented in complete detail for the general public-the break ins, forgeries, SCLC plants, inspection of IRS tax filings, bank account seizures, poison pen letters, instigating police raids on King's hotel and motel rooms, calls to universities, congresspersons to discredit him, and even the Nobel Prize Committee to reject King. Hutchinson details how the FBI stopped at nothing in its relentless, ruthless, no-holds barred campaign to destroy King even considering trying to turn his wife, Coretta Scott King, into an informer against him.Hutchinson notes, "There was a clear method to the FBI's diabolical obsession with King. It understood the monumental affect the King led movement had on civil rights, politics, heightened awareness of poverty, his crucial relationship with Democratic Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and the influence he had on other change movements globally and in America, that of Hispanics, Women, and Gays. Hutchinson poses and tackles the poignant question King raised, "Where Do We Go from Here."50 Years Later: Why the Murder of Dr. King Still Hurts draws from King's writings, letters, declassified government files, and documents and essays that focus on King's murder and the half century of change after King's murder. This includes an assessment of " King Versus Trump" and "What if King Had Lived?"

Why Black Lives Do Matter probes deeply how racial typecasting continues to fuel the widespread public belief that Blacks are victimizers and not victims. This has stifled public debate and enabled political inaction, if not outright resistance, to meaningful solutions to the problem of racial victimization in American society. He observes that this too has deadly consequences: "That could easily translate into more deadly encounters with officers driven by the fear that any and every young Black in any and every street or vehicle stop poses a danger to officers. This is when the stock racial stereotypes of young Blacks as violent threats could kick in and engender a potentially bad outcome."The devaluation of Black lives has truly been a chronic, painful, and all-consuming American dilemma that screams for an end. In his small way Hutchinson, aims that, Why Black Lives Do Matter attempts to further that aim.

An examination of the prison system and the relationship between alcohol, drugs, and the black community.