Author: Jared Ball

December 30, 2010

Sponsorship Matters! Of Name Drops and Memorials: Dr. King Gets Love from Hip-Hop

According to Thomas Conner and the Washington Post, you know, that veritable clearinghouse of Black history, radical politics and cultural expression, hip-hop…
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October 26, 2010

COINTELPRO 101: A Review

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October 12, 2010

The Evangelists of Social Media

The “evangelists of social media,” according to Malcolm Gladwell, want us to believe that the revolution we all want has simply been awaiting…
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September 10, 2010

Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy

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September 8, 2010

“The Most Visible Mulattoes”: Drake and Obama Match Hip-Hop and Politics

Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience. Her point was that…
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September 1, 2010

The Assata Taught Me Mixtape

Featured Emancipatory Mix! From DJ Plant Bass: Assata Shakur is a soldier for community, a Black Panther who waged revolution for a…
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August 2, 2010

Lolita Lebrón Remembered with Rosa Clemente

August 2, 2010
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June 21, 2010

Anti-Colonialism and Western Academia with Greg Thomas

Dr. Greg Thomas was with us this hour of Jazz and Justice to discuss the anti-colonialism in his work. Thomas offers important…
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June 14, 2010

Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? by Greg Thomas

Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas …
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June 13, 2010

Our Show [War] Intro

Salute first to the voices and the ideas they represent: Malcolm X, John Henrik Clarke, Barbara Sizemore, Kwame Ture, Marimba Ani, Fred…
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April 12, 2010

A BIRTHDAY (JUNE 28) TRIBUTE TO CHRIS HANI w Dr. Frank B. Wilderson

Drs. Frank Wilderson and Todd Burroughs joined us this week to commemorate Chris Hani. Hani, South Africa’s most popular leader, was assassinated…
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March 25, 2010

Defining Black Power: Dr. Jared Ball Debates Peniel Joseph

Drs. Jared Ball and Peniel Joseph debate the meaning of Black Power as defined in his work, Dark Days and Bright Nights:…
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March 2, 2010

Diversity Schmifersity: When It Comes to Black Even the Left Ain’t Right

The legendary counselor to power Walter Lippman once explained the role of the popular press in what he considered to be their…
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February 23, 2010

The Titans of Technology: The Internet, Radio and Our Newton’s Laws

Sir Isaac Newton once gave name to pre-existing universal laws of motion. His three laws can be summarized as nothing changes course…
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February 9, 2009

Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid w author Frank Wilderson

“In South Africa, Mandela once called the author, one of the few African-Americans to help lead the ANC, ‘a threat to national…
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November 29, 2003

An Interview w Arnette Ball

Our StoryCorps interview.
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September 20, 1999

Black Power / Black Consciousness: Pan-African Liberation Struggles

Black Power / Black Consciousness: Pan-African Liberation Struggles This paper was originally written in 1999. It is often assumed that events, which…
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September 20, 1999

Nomzamo!

Nomzamo! This paper was originally written in 1999. Nomzamo, “Trial,” the Xhosa name of the woman now known worldwide as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela…
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July 20, 1992

Malcolm X And Radical Black Ministry w Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Dr. John Henrik Clarke delivers this legendary commentary on Malcolm X.
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