Category: Reviews
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In A 21st-Century Classic Black Radical Autobiography, Soldier of Misfortune Russell “Maroon” Shoatz Provides a Hardcore How-To Manual
BOOK REVIEW: The Last, Lost Samurai I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner. Russell “Maroon” Shoatz with Kanya…
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Book Review: The Liberty Bell vs. Clang the Conqueror
On A Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice. Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins. New York: Mariner…
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Tip Of The Spear by Orisanmi Burton (A Review by Jared Ball)
Originally published with Propaganda In Focus I decenter these duly noted, juridically mediated, and scholastically authorized sources of evidence, focussing instead on…
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Book Review: Words Covered In Ivy, Not Yet In Blood
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oz87K9l3y2s Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening. New York/London: The New Press, 238 pp. $16.95. Reviewed…
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Book Review: The Prologue, The Prototype, The O.G. Hater
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3_awAF4GjhoHubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Vol. 1, published in 2009). Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918-1927 (Vol. 2, published in…
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BOOK REVIEW: “Same Old Devil”: In Time of National Turmoil, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria Recall A Nation Devoid of Justice
Murder, Incorporated: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny. Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny. By Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. San…
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BOOK REVIEW: MALCOLM THE TENTH? MORE LIKE 7 3/8ths: THE POWERFUL PAYNE PAINFULLY PETERS OUT BEFORE PUNTING
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. Les Payne and Tamara Payne. New York: Liverlight. 537 pp., $35. Reviewed by…
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Book Review: The Mouthpiece: Nkechi Taifa Bares Her Soul, Scars and Hopes
Black Power, Black Lawyer: My Audacious Quest For Justice. Nkechi Taifa. Foreword by Greg Carr. Washington, D.C.: House of Songhay II., 379…
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How Netflix And “Manning Marable” Killed Malcolm X (The Third Time)
by ANDREW STEWART At the outset, it is impossible to deny the vital role that the volume A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marrable’s…
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The Revolution On Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett Jr., Black Power, Pan-Africanism and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, 1966-1976
It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little…
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BREAKING (NON-) NEWS: Attention, Mumia! No Reading (About the Young Lords Party) Allowed!
Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Redux
As he completes his magnum opus trilogy on the American empire, Abu-Jamal revisits two of his books Commentary by Todd Steven Burroughs…
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BOOK REVIEW: Mumia Abu-Jamal And His Film Biographer Detail, And Damn To Hell, America’s Eternal War Machine
Murder Incorporated: Empire, Genocide and Manifest Destiny. Book Two: America’s Favorite Pastime. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria. Foreword by S. Brian Wilson,…
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Book Review: The Solitary Fox and The Death/Lifetime Mumia Abu-Jamal
Solitary: Unbroken by Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope. By Albert Woodfox with Leslie George. New York: Grove…
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Book Review: The African, The European, And The Underground Whispers That Spurred Revolution
Julius S. Scott’s classic work reveals that in the 18th century, Africans both free and enslaved by the European powers were in…