“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Though lauded by many, Marable’s book was debated and denounced by others as a flawed biography, full of conjecture and errors and…
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This is an important re-posting of an interview with (April 2016) and statement from (May 2017) Dhoruba bin-Wahad. Dhoruba bin-Wahad, formerly of The Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, discussed his critique of the “alternative press” and Left analysis of the history of armed struggle – what he calls “stealth” histories – as exemplified in a…
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Watch all second-day presentations at the symposium held in The Hague, NL this week hosted by West and which included (from their site): “… sociologist & junior curator Stephanie Archangel, professor of journalism Jared Ball, professor of law Kathleen Cleaver, anthropologist Jessica De Abreu, artist Emory Douglas, curator Juan Pablo Fajardo, Associate Professor in Global Politics, Gender…
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