The following discussion was hosted by the good folks at APPEAL Incorporated and was described by them as follows: The Black Panther: From Fictional Wakanda to Reality – What Does It Take To Rebuild Powerful, Prosperous and Representative African Nations and a Unified Africa? The Black Panther movie has captured the imagination of people of African…
Read moreAcademics In Cars #2 – Dr. Lawrence Brown and “Category 5” Baltimore
Dr. Lawrence Brown joined us for this edition of Academics In Cars for a discussion of “Category 5” segregated Baltimore and more!
Read moreAcademics In Cars #1 – Marvel’s Black Panther
We just saw the film and had to discuss some of what we loved and much of what we, ahem, did not.* Some questions we raise include why isn’t Killmonger the hero??! What’s up with the pan-Africanism here?!!! Why are they smiling at each other!?!?! And is this merely a remake of Paul Robeson’s Sanders…
Read moreWhose Black Panther? The Politics and History of the Comic and Film
Beggars On Horseback: Creating a Pan-African Power Paradigm for the 21st Century
Last month Reuters reported that : More central banks in Europe revealed plans on Tuesday to hold yuan as part of their foreign currency reserves, highlighting the Chinese currency’s rise into an elite league of the world’s major reserve currencies. News like this make an already relevant classic even more so which makes u s…
Read moreReal Talk About Afro-Pessimism with Danae Martinez
Danae Martinez joined us to discuss an essay she shared recently titled, Why I Am (Not) an Afropessimist, at least in part to address what has been an uproarious response to the emergence of Afro-pessimism as theory or ideology and, in particular, the work of Dr. Frank Wilderson.
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