*Originally published by The Black World Media Network (BWMN)—Dr. Jared Ball, an increasingly important activist in Black radical and Pan-Africanist circles, has been named a 2022 Freedom Scholar, one of ten selected this year. The prize—a one-time, no-strings payment of $250,000, awarded individually to all ten scholars—has been presented to renowned scholars such as Robin…
Read moreBook Review: The New ‘Double Consciousness?’ New Books Explore Technology’s Pluses and Minuses In Struggle
The Quiet Before: On The Unexpected Origins Of Radical Ideas. Gal Beckerman. New York: Crown. 271 pp. $28.99. Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media And The Fight For Racial Justice. Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster. New York: Atria. 253 pp. $28. From Black Power Media, here now the news: The Guardian reported Monday that…
Read moreA THANK-YOU CARD TO ABENA WALKER AND ASKIA MUHAMMAD (A Book Review In Poem Form)
ASKIA! ABENA! Saw both at separate times while hawking T’ChallaA marketing MarvelThe Black Cat unifying the white movie theater and Black lecture hallAfrikan Panther Power brought to you by Mickey Mouse Askia has quilted his scribing life of red, black, green and white (house)“The Autobiography of Charles 67X”A Black NPR SoundPrint on rewindA map to…
Read moreWhy I Wrote “THE INVISIBLE SHADOW AND THE HIGH-TOP FADE: The Mortal Cells of America’s Political Prisoners, Freedom’s Untouchables,” A Book-Length Essay
Shadow/Fade is a book-length essay about the 2022 meaning of our aging political prisoners. It’s a personal, polemical work with literary pretensions in the tradition of James Baldwin, Kevin Powell and Ta-Nehisi Coates. A first-person act of remembering on 2021 Memorial Day seemed appropriate as both the first George Floyd anniversary and the Tulsa massacre…
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– BLACK POWER MEDIA AND IMIXWHATILIKE.ORG PRESENT AN AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH SPECIAL – By Todd Steven Burroughs (© Main text copyright 2019, 2022 by Todd Steven Burroughs, Ph.D. The “Open Letter” prologue is copyrighted 2020 by the signatories and the 2021 Congressional hearing testimonies in the Appendices are copyrighted by the witnesses. Both supplemental Appendices…
Read moreRUSSELL “MAROON” SHOATZ (1943-2021) SPEAKS: “THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE IN PHILADELPHIA”—A 2006 Q+A INTERVIEW WITH COMRADE SOBUKWE AND MARCUS SCHELL (BOOK EXCERPT)
(It was announced today that Russell “Maroon” Shoatz has joined The Realm of the Ancestors. This Q+A interview was conducted in 2006 by Comrade Sobukwe and Marcus Schell, both supporters of the Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Defense Committee. Marcus Schell is the son of the late Reggie Schell, a founding member of Philadelphia’s Black Panther Party….
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