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ded just about every ball in chicago atlanta los angeles philadelphia washington d c and detroit thankful for all my wins and moments i still haven t decided whether or not i am taking a break from ballroom in 2007 to completely immerse myself in my doctoral research however i do know that i ll at least be at atlanta s mlk escada ball in january after that i ll make my decision until then enjoy the best and brightest photographs from 2006 click on each link peace and love frank mizrahi january 1 house of icon ball brooklyn new york 2 jack mizrahi s superball sunday 9 february 3 dorian corey awards ball philadelphia pennsylvania 4 nostalgia ball washington d c 5 midwest awards ball chicago illinois 6 jack mizrahi s superball sunday x times square new york march 7 d c capital awards ball washington d c link the young people s professor march 2006 brooklynboyblues blogspot com april 8 people of color in crisis p o c c ball chelsea new york full link must scroll the young people s professor april 2006 brooklynboyblues blogspot com 9 jasmine couture s collections ball harlem new york may 10 stasha tempress mugler s mother s day ball atlanta georgia 11 new york city awards ball harlem new york 12 house of khan ball washington d c 13 superball sunday 12 june 14 summer celebration ball brooklyn new york 15 the frozen ball chicago illinois july 16 the clairvoyance ball chicago illinois 17 house of escada ball detroit michigan august 18 the latex ball new york city 19 battle ball i new york city september 20 the icons ball atlanta georgia 21 battle ball ii new york city 22 rags to riches ball chicago illinois october 23 house of evisu ball harlem new york 24 battle ball oct times square new york november 25 rj balenciaga s inauguration ball washington d c december 26 battle ball finals new york city 27 house of escada ball chicago illinois posted by the young people s professor at 5 30 00 am permalink comments 2 04 2012 home for the holidays i m back at home in bayonne new jersey with my family i have to be honest there have been moments this semester when i ve questioned my decision earlier this year to remain in new york rather than moving to chicago to attend northwestern university or oakland to attend uc berkeley but each and everytime i am in the presence of my family i realize that i made the best decision family is everything to me and i m incredibly blessed to still be living among four generations of roberts i wouldnt change it for the world posted by the young people s professor at 6 46 00 pm permalink comments 4 06 2010 a final goodbye glenn ligon warm bright glow 2005 dear readers every so often something beautiful in our lives passes on we find sadness in this because we can no longer see it feel it or be near it however we can smile at the fact that these things live on in our memory and in our spirit thank you traveling with me through this five year blog journey called brooklynboyblues today that journey officially comes to a close when i began writing in 2005 i was a wide eyed 21 year old with three dangerous possessions at my disposal 1 a camera 2 an appetite for underground culture and 3 a watered down scholarly opinion on just about everything much has changed since then and i barely recognize that naïve young man from a few years ago so as you look back on the contents of this blog be gentle hold on to my words like a souvenir and smile upon them as if looking back upon an old photo album let these scattered posts linger in your mind like a rumor or like your first kiss and if you see me walking the streets of new york city go ahead an pull me to the side we re family much love flr the email address frankleonroberts gmail com remains active and i will respond to your emails i also will continue to engage inquiries about television radio and lecture appearances posted by the young people s professor at 8 24 00 pm permalink comments 1 31 2010 proletariat musicalities introducing blue scholars i ve recently acquainted myself with the music of a dope seattle based underground hip hop duo named blue scholars the duo consists of the vocals of geologic the son of filipino immigrants raised in hawai and seattle and the turntables of sabzi an iranian american jazz trained pianist i like to think of blue scholars rhymes as providing a sort of lyrical ethnography of youth of color and working class spaces in seattle and of course the group s name is a careful play on words of the proletariat phrase blue collar the two band s men describe their sounds as a musical amalgamation of marxist theory mixed with baha i spirituality they refer to themselves as off shoots of thelonius monk and aphex twin to marvin gaye and j dilla among my favorite tracks in the blue scholars discography include 50k deep joe metro and the delicious coffee and snow which is my fav now of course all of these tracks are best experienced post philly blunt posted by the young people s professor at 6 44 00 am permalink comments coffee and snow i think of this song as an appropriate soundtrack for a cold new york winter by a hip hop group you ve probably never heard of but really really should posted by the young people s professor at 5 43 00 am permalink comments 1 08 2010 yo tengo todo papi shout out to my fellow nyu scholar homegirl marisol lebron for putting me on to the refreshing work of new york based dominican artist maluca marisol righty describes the artist as a dominicana m i a i particularly enjoy the intersections of blackness and latinidad indexed visually in this video reminds me of my days in new york living on the corner of 142nd street and broadway posted by the young people s professor at 9 15 00 pm permalink comments 11 12 2009 loose change loo e change from mykwain gainey on vimeo for anyone who rides the subways of new york city on a daily basis this short film will put a tremendous smile on your face i ve always wondered why the little boys on the a f train never have anything left but starbusts and m m peanut directed by mykwain gainey an nyu and morehouse college alum the film reminds me exactly why i love my young urban new york city based black filmmakers posted by the young people s professor at 6 22 00 pm permalink comments 10 20 2009 the final word on morehouse college rethinking the culture wars at morehouse college by frank roberts written for the washington post theroot com t he conversation regarding the new dress code policy at morehouse college has been hijacked by a vociferous gang of socially conservative black pundits some of them simply politically misguided others merely proud homophobes a few of them the ideological love children of ward connerly and bill cosby in the short week and a half since i became the first writer to report the news of morehouse s new policy the college has become the subject of an intensifying national debate within black diasporic america regarding the role that style plays in producing or constraining black male substance by now there is no need to explain what went down at morehouse you already know but while you may have already heard the details of morehouse s new no grills or purses policy it s quite possible that you have yet to hear an impassioned defense of grillz and purses in the spirit of morehouse s most illustrious progenitors there are those who have argued that it is inappropriate to incite a national public dialogue about what s happening at a private independently funded college amidst the cacophonous roar of the blogosphere we have heard comments in recent days such as what goes on at morehouse is a private affair between its students alumni and administrators there is nothing illegal about a private school enforcing a dress code any student who is unhappy with the dress code has the liberty to leave these voices are misguided and unsophisticated morehouse college is much more than simply a private institution it is a black cultural pillar in other words the institution we call morehouse is quite similar to the institution we call the black church one does not have to be a member of these institutions in order to be effected by what goes on within their walls given morehouse s stature as a historical pillar all african american men not just those who are students or alumni of the institution have an ethical obligation to contribute to this national dialogue about the politics of the college s policies especially in instances where it promotes a climate of rampant anti ghetto culture classism and femphobia the bourgeois classism and femphobia embedded in morehouse s policy are symptomatic of a stubborn refusal on behalf of african americans to have open discussions about 1 the sizable presence of gay men within our community including and perhaps especially at institutions like morehouse and 2 the continued popularity of black urban culture on the stylistic sensibilities of our black male youth the idea that young black men on college campuses are so developmentally arrested that the only way that they can distinguish between what to wear in the classroom vs what to wear in corporate america is by prohibiting them from wearing sagging jeans at all times is not only absolutely ridiculous it s also quite racist young black men are all too familiar with having our cultural fashions and stylistics pathologized as deviant criminal or dysfunctional it is thus painfully ironic that an administration such as morehouse run by and for black men would promote a policy that implies that baggy jeans are a visual marker of anti achievement moreover simply being a private college does not give morehouse the ethical license to engage in fascist tactics the vast majority of the nation s top institutions ranging from the massachusetts institute of technology to yale university do not depend on dress codes to make sure that their students are intelligent enough to deduce that walking into a medical school interview with gold teeth might not make for a stellar first impression instead these institutions realize that even in the most challenging of intellectual environments students should be allowed to express themselves on campus freely in whatever clothing suits their interests turning morehouse college into a playground of men with cardigans and brooks brothers bow ties will not substantively increase the institution s rapidly declining graduation rates at last check only 64 of morehouse men graduate within six years nor will it help to reverse the college s longstanding inability to attract superstar black faculty in the humanities or social sciences i doubt that a new undergraduate dress code would be appealing to the likes of bell hooks or cornel west nor will it beef up the resources that one would expect to find on the campus of a purportedly elite college such as better library holdings laboratories or facilities so the question becomes what s really behind this decision morehouse college is at crossroads and it s one that has nothing to do with cross dressing the institution is suffering from a financial and vision mismanagement crisis that threatens to rock the foundation of the college s pedigree the administration has failed repeatedly to substantively raise the college s meek endowment currently only at 117 million a far cry from spelman college s 291 million and howard s comparatively colossal 490 million moreover the administration has still not effectively come up with a strategy for raising the college s national ranking both spelman and howard have recently ascended into u s news world report s coveted tier 1 classification while morehouse lags behind in tier 3 one rank above the lowest possible designation thus the college s decision to regulate the fashion trends of its undergrad student body is nothing short of a lazy attempt to shift the focus away from a failing administration that has had a less than stellar job performance in the crucial arenas of endowment rank and matriculation the administration s buffoonish emphasis on attire instead of actual academic achievement is perhaps precisely why the college finds itself in the unfortunate situation it has inherited prohibiting feminine clothing and ghetto gear is simply an easy way of refusing to get down to the more serious knitty gritty work of revitalizing morehouse s scholastic legacy moreover the sexual politics of morehouse s dress code not only sends out a disheartening message to the legions of feminine or gender non comforting black boys who one day hope to attend the house long ago i was one of them it also promulgates an openly hostile climate towards current students on morehouse s campus who have an alternative vision of what a morehouse man actually looks like the policy is not so much homophobic indeed many gay men do not wear women s clothing therefore it is unfair to assume that the policy is directed towards gay men at large as much as it is femphobic an attempt to vilify the subset of gay men who choose to express themselves in women s clothing but perhaps most disturbingly the new dress code policy at morehouse college is a stunning retrenchment of the prophetic vision once made famous by the institution s most distinguished alumnus dr martin luther king it was dr king of course who prophesied the dawn of a political landscape where men would be judged first and foremost by the content of their character rather than by the superficial trappings of color or by extension clothing morehouse s dress code policy is nothing short of a reversal of the ethical sensibility of dr king who warned us repeatedly about the ruse of the exterior color gender etc over the more substantive interior intelligence character integrity perhaps this administration might rethink its policy in relationship to the man who most americans see as the true embodiment of the institution s political promise as african american men we all belong to morehouse college and morehouse belongs to us doing the work of transforming the politics of sexuality and class within the black community is no easy task but perhaps the best place to begin is in the halls of our house view the full article here posted by the young people s professor at 10 02 00 am permalink comments about me my profile popular media on frank search search this blog last posts the year in pictures 2006 ballroom national tour home for the holidays a final goodbye proletariat musicalities introducing blue scholars coffee and snow yo tengo todo papi loose change the final word on morehouse college barkley l hendricks birth of the cool back on the road again archives january 2005 february 2005 march 2005 may 2005 june 2005 july 2005 august 2005 september 2005 october 2005 november 2005 december 2005 january 2006 february 2006 march 2006 april 2006 may 2006 june 2006 july 2006 august 2006 september 2006 october 2006 november 2006 december 2006 january 2007 february 2007 march 2007 april 2007 may 2007 june 2007 july 2007 august 2007 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