This is the show that started it all… we were among the first to raise critical voices and this led Paul Coates of Black Classic Press to contact us about producing what eventually became A Lie Of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X.* Richard Prince of Journal-isms and Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs joined us this week for an initial discussion…
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In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future* *Originally published in the March 2011 issue of BLAC Detroit magazine. What are you? I have been asked this question for so long, some might think I should be over it. I’m not. Not because I…
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Rosa Clemente and Jared Ball addressed the topic of “The Rap on Politics” during the second annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” conference at the City College of New York’s Center for Worker Education. In each case Clemente and Ball were clear to distinguish themselves as “hip-hop radicals” in order to draw some political lines and raise serious questions about…
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