Malcolm X Commemoration February 22, 2013 Howard University

During this 2013 commemoration of Malcolm X’s assassination – and between some powerful presentations two of which are included here – we found it appropriate and fitting to include discussion of our collective critique in A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X.  It is interesting to note the many overlapping themes between our…

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Dhoruba bin-Wahad: The Black Radical Whirlwind in Conversation

Just to catch up a little bit we have today’s edition of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour which was a pledge-drive special semi-Hate Awards show.  Dhoruba bin-Wahad was with us and focussed our discussion on the absence of Black radical and nationalist thought and organization. February 22, 2013

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Ralina Joseph and Critical Mixed-Race Studies

We featured our previous interview with Dr. Ralina Joseph this week.  Her new book, From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial, offers a strong critique of the standard “tragic mulatto/a” approach to the discussion of “multiracial” people and the anti-Black core of much of the “multiracial [political/social/academic] movement.”

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