Set The World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women And The Global Struggle For Freedom. Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 264 pp., $34.95. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek. The University Press of Kentucky, 384 pp. $30. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs ONCE…
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Esi Ramu hosted this discussion of actual African Black Panther fighting societies and African fighting sciences with Ahati Kilindi Iyi. Kilindi Iyi leads a deeply powerful and multi-dimensional discussion of Africa, the “scared and secret,” a “hidden” world of martial arts, ancestral connection and “fungi warfare.” As the man says, “if you want to get…
Read moreAcademics 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 and took us for a ride around Baltimore discussing how her own history growing up there informs her current work. That work involves community engaged police training and work within and about the…
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