Sports Talk Radio and North American Apartheid

Jared Ball iMWiL!, Media Studies, Panels & Presentations

This was a presentation given at the Passing the Ball: Race and Sports conference at Temple University. In 1913 James Sullivan, the U.S. minister to the Dominican Republic said: “I deem it worthy of the Department’s notice that the American game of baseball is being played and supported here with great enthusiasm. The remarkable effect of this…

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Dr. King Commemorated: COINTELPRO and the 45th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. King

Jared Ball Africana Studies, iMWiL!, Panels & Presentations

Activists and scholars gathered at Morgan State University April 4, 2013 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The event’s focus was the particular relationship Dr. King had at the end of his life with the state, its mass media and leading civil rights leadership which meant a particular…

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