Professor Chris Simpson of American University in Washington, D.C. joined us for this edition of Academics In Cars to discuss his work in the areas of communication studies and propaganda. (Cover art via...
Walter Rodney’s notes of his 1970-1971 lectures have been shaped into a book by Robin D.G. Kelly, Jesse Benjamin and Vijay Prashad. In this book, the professor Walter Rodney and his Tanzanian students are studying the possible future of Africa by studying the past victories and mistakes of Europe, since Marxism was being tested across the African mainland and around the world.
What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America. Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had...
