It was a pleasure to rejoin Black Agenda Radio for a discussion of my forthcoming book, The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Coming May 25, 2020!).
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Russell Simmons Still Ain’t Hip-Hop and He Ain’t No Occupier Either!
The experience of the last five weeks shows that Wall Street “occupiers’ fear of liberal co-optation is fully justified.” Media mogul and debit card finance capitalist Russell Simmons escorted Kanye West and Al Sharpton into the Zuccotti Park occupation mix, in yet another attempt “by the soft liberal Left to co-opt anything that has any…
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Defying the Tomb, Defying Illogic
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s book has some calling him “this generation’s George Jackson,” the Black Panther and “Soledad Brother” assassinated in prison in 1971. Johnson, like Jackson, became a revolutionary behind bars, where he has spent over a decade in solitary confinement. Johnson presents “a powerful commentary on the failure of that which poses as political…
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