Category: iMWiL!
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The Corporate King Memorial and The Burial of a Movement
Dr. King and the liberation movement he represents will again suffer a brutal blow this week when all are permanently entombed under…
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Dr. Ronald Walters: Africana @ 40 (Part One)
Dr. Ronald Walters was among the most honest, hard-working and supportive scholars whose work in African American politics was unparalleled. He was…
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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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The Revolution will not be Televised-it will be Remixed! Hip Hop Colonialism versus Emancipatory (Mixtape) Journalism a Review by Lawrence Grandpre
… Morgan State University professor Jared Ball in his new book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto… [offers] a penetrating…
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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…
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Marshall Law: Political Imprisonment and Modern-Day Slavery w Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque Stevenson
Marshall “Eddie” Conway and Dominque Stevenson joined us this morning to discuss their new book:Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore…
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Malcolm X: Who Was the Man Behind the Legend?
This was our one visit to Al Jazeera / and the last taping of the Riz Khan Show for a panel discussion on Viking…
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Marable’s Malcolm X: A Eulogy of Revolution as an Idea
Manning Marable titles his book’s epilogue “Reflections on a Revolutionary Vision.” However, his conclusion is more of a eulogy for the…
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Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention or the Reinvention of a Life?
04/13/2011 There is a growing sense among those who have read it that Manning Marable’s latest book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is…
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Beyond the Beats: Towards a Radical Analysis of the State of Hip-Hop
NCMR 2011 – Beyond the Beats: New Perspectives in Hip-Hop CultureWatch this video on YouTube Dr. Chris Tinson, Rosa Clemente, Mariama White-Hammond and Jared Ball participated…
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Marable’s Malcolm X a “Fraud?”
This is the show that started it all… we were among the first to raise critical voices and this led Paul Coates…
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In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future
In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future* *Originally published in…
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Drawing Some Political Lines: Ideology in Hip-Hop
Rosa Clemente and Jared Ball addressed the topic of “The Rap on Politics” during the second annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” conference at the City College…
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iMWiL! Emancipatory Journalism and Media
“i MiX WHAT i LiKE” is borrowed – in phrase and philosophy – from the work of Steve Biko. The collection of…
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Samuel Yette and The Choice: Black Survival in the United States
Samuel Yette died last week and the choice he wrote of, a choice long ago reached by this country, is a choice…