I have long appreciated – the often misunderstood – work of Marshall McLuhan and I am pleased to have an essay in this FREE (for digital copy) collection! “The Maelstrom of Our Own Creation,” in McLuhan: Global Warning, West Den Haag, 2020 (On the occasion of the project Feedback #5: Marshall McLuhan and the Arts presented…
Read moreNew Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…
Read moreA Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
Read moreBook Review: The African, The European, And The Underground Whispers That Spurred Revolution
Julius S. Scott’s classic work reveals that in the 18th century, Africans both free and enslaved by the European powers were in constant, underground communication with each other in the Caribbean as Revolution in France turned to the Americans.
Read more4th Anniversary! Son-Shine On Cracked Sidewalks: An Audiobook by Todd Steven Burroughs
Get details about the book, plus many extras and more from the author Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs.
Read moreNot Our President: New Directions from the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America
Includes my chapter, “Agent Orange: Donald Trump as Political Chemical Warfare.”
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