Category: Africana Studies
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"Don't Be Scared: Organize A National United Front Against Fascism": Dhoruba bin-Wahad on the 2016 U.S. Elections
Former Black Panther, Black Liberation Army member and political prisoner Dhoruba bin-Wahad discusses the 2016 election results and the need for strength…
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Dhoruba bin-Wahad: A 20th Century Nat Turner Challenges Criticism of Birth of a Nation
Dhoruba bin-Wahad, formerly of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, also a former political prisoner, talks about his criticism of…
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Black August, Hip-Hop and Political Symbolism
Prison has long been central to the maintenance of a racial, social and class structure in the United States. Prisons are used…
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Leslie Alexander On Why Birth of a Nation is an "Epic Fail"
Dr. Leslie Alexander joined us to discuss her recently published review, ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Is an Epic Fail. Alexander is…
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Rebirth of a Nation Within a Nation
I was happily involved in this panel after a screening of Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation today at the Library of…
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Using Theatre and Performance Art to Empower the Community
In this special episode of iMiXWHATiLiKE! we feature WombWork Productions. For nearly two decades they have provided Afrikan-Centered social change theatre and…
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Malcolm X and Resuscitated Reinventions
Last month Russell Rickford published this commemoration of his late mentor Manning Marable. In it Rickford makes mention of our anthology which…
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Black Power Remembered with Ms. Dorie Ladner
After commemorating June 16th as the 50th anniversary of the call for Black Power we ran into and had a chance to…
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George Jackson: Releasing The Dragon
*Cover art by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson A “video mixtape” tribute to George Jackson (b. September 23, 1941 – d. August 21, 1971) edited by Bashi…