by Jared Ball | May 15, 2018 | Interviews, Media Criticism, Multimedia, Pop Culture
It was a pleasure to join Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon once again for this live edition of By Any Means Necessary on Radio Sputnik. We talked more about Donald Glover, resistance symbolism and the politics of celebrity all in the context of The Vernon Philosophy...
by Jared Ball | Mar 6, 2018 | Africana Studies, imwil!, Interviews, Multimedia, World News
Esi Ramu hosted this discussion of actual African Black Panther fighting societies and African fighting sciences with Ahati Kilindi Iyi. Kilindi Iyi leads a deeply powerful and multi-dimensional discussion of Africa, the “scared and secret,” a...
by Jared Ball | Feb 24, 2018 | Africana Studies, imwil!, Media Criticism, Multimedia, Pop Culture
The following discussion was hosted by the good folks at APPEAL Incorporated and was described by them as follows: The Black Panther: From Fictional Wakanda to Reality – What Does It Take To Rebuild Powerful, Prosperous and Representative African Nations and a...
by Jared Ball | Feb 18, 2018 | Academics In Cars, Africana Studies, imwil!, Media Criticism, Multimedia, Pop Culture, Videos
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...
by Jared Ball | Feb 9, 2018 | Africana Studies, imwil!, Media Criticism, Multimedia, Pop Culture, World News
Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of the iMWiL! crew joined the iMWiL! crew in our collaboration with Netfa Freeman of WPFW‘s Voices With Vision for this wide-ranging, powerful discussion of his new book: Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to...
by Jared Ball | Feb 2, 2018 | Africana Studies, imwil!, Multimedia, Political Economy
Danae Martinez joined us to discuss an essay she shared recently titled, Why I Am (Not) an Afropessimist, at least in part to address what has been an uproarious response to the emergence of Afro-pessimism as theory or ideology and, in particular, the work of Dr....
