Category: Media Studies
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Celebrating 50 Years of Black Studies
Drs. Carol Henderson, Dana Williams and Jared Ball discuss the state of Black / Africana Studies during what is the discipline’s 50th…
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Mueller, Media and Russia
A quick summary of the Mueller probe, its meaning and media coverage.
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A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to…
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Poverty Scholarship: Redistribution of Wealth and Ideas
We were joined in this edition by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, author and editor of Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, &…
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The Fake Of News
“Fake News” is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial “fakeness” of “news” itself. Thanks…
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Local News, Not Right-Wing Views: Sinclair Broadcasting and Media Consolidation
People gathered today to protest the planned merger between Sinclair Broadcasting Group and the Tribune Company. Speakers addressed issues of media consolidation,…
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Agency and Agencies: Still More on the Politics of (The Black Panther) Film
Drs. Ball, Bolden and Burroughs, “The Killer Bs,” sat down for an “impromptu radio” formatted discussion of Burroughs’ new book, Marvel’s Black…
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It’s Bigger Than Kanye: Hats, Hugs and Colonial Relations
Whew! The hat, that line from Kanye West about enslavement being “a choice” and his subsequent attempts to clarify himself are just,…
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Remembering The Politics of Dr. King
For the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this discussion was held on Loud and Clear Sputnik…
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Academics In Cars #6: Mr. Thomas Porter talks Political Struggle and Pop Histories
Mr. Thomas Porter joined us for this edition of Academics In Cars to discuss his own historical record and the politics of…
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Black Media: Past, Present, Future
This was an interesting discussion of the state of Black media historically and today. Black Media Past, Present and Future Watch this…
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Blackness Largely Absent From Kerner Commission Report on Black Uprisings
Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards joined us to discuss her work related to the Kerner Commission report. 50 years ago today (March 1, 1968)…
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The Black Panther and African Sovereignty
The following discussion was hosted by the good folks at APPEAL Incorporated and was described by them as follows: The Black Panther: From…
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Academics In Cars #2 – Dr. Lawrence Brown and “Category 5” Baltimore
Dr. Lawrence Brown joined us for this edition of Academics In Cars for a discussion of “Category 5” segregated Baltimore and more!…
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Academics 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.*…
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Whose Black Panther? The Politics and History of the Comic and Film
https://youtu.be/XLFJzKy4rb8 Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of the iMWiL! crew joined the iMWiL! crew in our collaboration with Netfa Freeman of WPFW‘s Voices…