It was fun to be back with the Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon of By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik. We started off with the current medical condition of filmmaker John Singleton and spoke for the remaining hour about the political context of media, race and film in particular.
Read moreBook 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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreThe 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…
Read moreCelebrating 50 Years of Black Studies
Drs. Carol Henderson, Dana Williams and Jared Ball discuss the state of Black / Africana Studies during what is the discipline’s 50th anniversary. The event was organized and hosted by Dr. Casarae L. Gibson of Syracuse University.
Read moreDr. 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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