Book Review: The Solitary Fox and The Death/Lifetime Mumia Abu-Jamal

Solitary: Unbroken by Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. By Albert Woodfox with Leslie George. New York: Grove Press. 414 pp. $26. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, who as a Philadelphia teenager became a Black Panther monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, turns 65 Wednesday. He has been…

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This is black excellence The Space Program Album: Curriculum of the Mind

Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson and The Space Program Collective: A review by Tryon P. Woods This is black excellence.  Never mind Jay-Z and Kanye.  Forget hero-worship, commodity fetish, corporate-compromise, and the consumption of everyday black lives for individual wealth and national aggrandizement.  Black excellence is independent and collective; it is process-oriented and in it for…

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The Politics of Hashtags and Reparations

On this episode, we talk reparations, the myth of Black Buying Power and #ADOS (American Descendants of Slavery). Our guests include Dr. Jared Ball, professor of communication studies at Morgan State University and host of mixtape radio show imixwhatilike.org Also, we have in-studio Kwesi Jumoke Ifetayo, Southeast Regional Representative of N’COBRA (National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations…

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Dr. James Turner: Internal Colonialism Summarized

In this never before published short interview with Dr. James Turner, legendary founding Chair of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, summarizes his interpretation and application of the concept of Internal Colonialism Theory. The interview is from February 17, 2010. #TurnerTaughtMe Across every important social indices there is no equality or equity….

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