Category: Articles
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When Revelations Really Aren’t That Revelatory: Dr. King and Human Rights Struggle
The following was initially prepared for what was ultimately a press release from the Institute for Public Accuracy (see below). And let’s…
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Assata Shakur, Excluding the Nightmare After the Dream by Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Extending our earlier discussion of Herman Wallace and the Political Context of Black Self-Defense Dhoruba bin-Wahad continued with this frank – and highly explicit*…
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Freedom Journalism and the Black Public Sphere in an Age of “Networked Authoritarianism”
Over the summer I had been invited to contribute to the new online journalism review from Morgan State University. Editorial decisions being…
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Fruitvale Station is Sadly Fruitless
“I was worried about the police… Call it a father’s intuition… In the past, you could hang a black man from a…
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An Open Letter to Tavis Smiley and Cornel West: Stop Denying Critics of Marable’s Malcolm X
The following was sent to the staff at TavisTalks.com and the Smiley & West show in response to an April 5 interview conducted with Zaheer Ali regarding Manning…
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Artists, Scholars & Radio Professionals Weigh in on Radio Politics
FAAN Mail is interviewing independent hip hop artists, radio industry professionals and media scholars about radio play. These testimonies will inform a…
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Why Some Like The New Jim Crow So Much
WHY SOME LIKE THE NEW JIM CROW SO MUCH: Michelle Alexander is unlike “Some Radical Group[s]” who must be “Crazy” & “Absurd”…
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Memorials and Spectacles: The Anti-Dr. King Monument
This week’s dedication of the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington, D.C. was a quintessential display of what Guy Debord called “spectacle.” In…
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The Black Power Mixtape Remixes Black Power
It would be difficult to argue that the filmmakers of the recently-released documentary Black Power Mixtape did not intend the irony that…
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Mass Media and African Sovereignty
Mass Media and African Sovereignty Jared Ball It is always appropriate for a people to question the status of their sovereignty. It…
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Porn and Mail: New Media, Same Old Sh!t
It may be an emerging technology but the internet isn’t changing a thing. I don’t mean literally of course. The internet is…
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The Music Industry Reloads: It’s Not Dead Because We Didn’t Kill It!
The Music Industry Reloads: It’s Not Dead Because We Didn’t Kill It! by Jared A. Ball* Look around and you will find…
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NPR and Payola
In I MiX What I Like! there is an attempt made to expand the context in which we see or interpret National…