Month: March 2018
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Hip-Hop in the HBCU Academy
Why is teaching hip-hop important at Historically Black Colleges and Universities? Who owns hip-hop? How does popular culture foster or build intergenerational…
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Academics In Cars #5 Dedrick Muhammad Talks The Racial Wealth Divide and Mixed Martial Arts
Episode #5 of Academics In Cars featured Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Fellow, Racial Wealth Divide at Prosperity Now. Dedrick was kind enough to…
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BOOK REVIEWS: ‘Lady Presidents’ and Black Radical Dreams Between Garvey And The Civil Rights Movement
Set The World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women And The Global Struggle For Freedom. Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press,…
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Real African Black Panther Fighting Societies with Ahati Kilindi Iyi
Esi Ramu hosted this discussion of actual African Black Panther fighting societies and African fighting sciences with Ahati Kilindi Iyi. Kilindi Iyi…
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Academics In Cars #3: Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris Talks Baltimore, Police Training and Ivory Towers
Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, the only Black woman from Baltimore, working in Baltimore as a Criminologist, was our guest academic in the car…
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Blackness Largely Absent From Kerner Commission Report on Black Uprisings
Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards joined us to discuss her work related to the Kerner Commission report. 50 years ago today (March 1, 1968)…
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Race, Rebellion, Reporting and Research: Baltimore and The Kerner Commission at 50
“Can you hear me? … I’m Screaming from way down here below!” – Hugh Masekela I. INTRODUCTION “Chief Blame for Riots Put…