Category: Media Studies
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No Doubt: The Murder of Oscar Grant w Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Veteran community journalist Thandisizwe Chimurenga who covered closely the killing of Oscar Grant and subsequent trial of his killer Johannes Mehserle joined us to…
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State of the Press and Black Press w Richard Prince of Journal-isms
Richard Prince of the online column Journal-isms joined us for a quick update on the state of the press and of the…
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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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Sports Talk Radio and North American Apartheid
This was a presentation given at the Passing the Ball: Race and Sports conference at Temple University. In 1913 James Sullivan, the U.S. minister…
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Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois Battle in the Press
This is conference audio of Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs delivering a powerful lecture on the historic media battle waged in the press between Marcus Garvey and W.E.B. DuBois. …
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Not Yet Unchained: Django and Lincoln’s (Ab)Use of History as False Transcendence
Thanks to Bellevue College in Bellevue, WA. for the invitation to take another shot at the political function of these films and films in…
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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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An Interview about I Mix What I Like! w Dr. Stephen Ferguson
An Interview about I Mix What I Like! from VoxUnion Media on Vimeo. This was a taped discussion/interview to be used for a class run by…
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Super Black! The Politics of Comics and Pop Culture
We had an “academic barbershop roundtable” this morning on the politics of race and pop culture in the context of Black superhero…
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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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The 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…
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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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Diversity Schmifersity: When It Comes to Black Even the Left Ain’t Right
The legendary counselor to power Walter Lippman once explained the role of the popular press in what he considered to be their…