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A 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...
The Fake Of News
"Fake News" is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial "fakeness" of "news" itself. Thanks to professor Gus...
Zionism and Black Radical Internationalism
Thanks to the good folks at Pan-African Community Action (PACA) for hosting the following post-film discussion. What are recorded are my comments and responses to...
Defining Phenomena: Propaganda, Power and the Black Panther Party
This was a presentation given during the All Power to the People! Emory Douglas & The Black Panthers hosted by West Den Haag. https://youtu.be/0HV3lcmbR9M AUDIO...
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The Green Book and The Vernon Philosophy Of Black Media Avoidance
“I got a call from Mahershala Ali, a very, very respectful phone call, from him personally. He called me and my Uncle Maurice in which...
Redefining Veteran’s Day
Originally published in 2011 with Black Agenda Report. I am officially a veteran. Like many I was conscripted by this country’s “poverty draft” and its...
Can A Leopard Change Its Spots? Undermining the Black Studies Tradition
By Tryon P. Woods Speaking at a 1971 symposium sponsored by Atlanta’s Institute for the Black World, C.L.R. James made the observation that “all political...
Fahrenheit 11/9 Asks “What The Fuck Happened!?”
The problem with films like those we keep getting from Michael Moore is that they continue what is a very consistent theme found in popular...
Texas Prison Report: Deceptions, Lies and Misappropriation of Funds at the W.G. McConnell Unit
by Keith “Malik” Washington Peace & blessings, sisters and brothers! Today is September 4th, 2018, the heat and humidity inside my cell has reached a...
Political Imprisonment
mass incarceration considered from within...
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A 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...
Poverty Scholarship: Redistribution of Wealth and Ideas
We were joined in this edition by Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia, author and editor of Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, & Tears Across Mama...
The Fake Of News
"Fake News" is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial "fakeness" of "news" itself. Thanks to professor Gus...
Young, Pretty and Hard-Hitting – Academics In Cars #13
We were joined in this edition of #AcademicsInCars by the artist and activist Skipp Coon. We talked hip-hop, politics, and what it means that "I'm...
The 20 Hateen Hate Awards!
I dig people, righteous people. I always have found it hard to really hate anyone. I loved people. I understood from the beginning that the...
The Green Book and The Vernon Philosophy Of Black Media Avoidance
“I got a call from Mahershala Ali, a very, very respectful phone call, from him personally. He called me and my Uncle Maurice in which...