We caught up briefly with Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble after her brilliant presentation at the Citizen Journalism, New Media and Activism colloquium convened at DePaul University by African and Black Diaspora Studies. Dr. Noble summarized her presentation and work, specifically, her essential and critical look at the ways in which activists (we all) are often…
Read moreReMiX What i Like! A Fresh Look at iMWiL! w DaveyD
Given all the latest developments with propaganda and Facebook, attacks on Net Neutrality, and media consolidation hip-hop historian and journalist DaveyD thought it a good time for a fresh look at i Mix What i Like: A Mixtape Manifesto.
Read moreAcademics In Cars #1 – Marvel’s Black Panther
We just saw the film and had to discuss some of what we loved and much of what we, ahem, did not.* Some questions we raise include why isn’t Killmonger the hero??! What’s up with the pan-Africanism here?!!! Why are they smiling at each other!?!?! And is this merely a remake of Paul Robeson’s Sanders…
Read moreThe Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication
I Mix What I Like! In Defense and Appreciation of the Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication in the International Journal of Communication.
Read moreThe Assata Taught Me Mixtape
Featured Emancipatory Mix! From DJ Plant Bass: Assata Shakur is a soldier for community, a Black Panther who waged revolution for a new system of values: justice for the Earth and all its inhabitants. She has a lot to teach us, take a listen and you’ll see! This mixtape is set to conscious hip-hop as…
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