Category: Panels & Presentations
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Curriculum Wars and the Heroification of White Supremacy
The following is an edited summary of comments made previously during The Angela Project (2017) conference and were initially slated for publication…
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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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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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Zionism and Black Radical Internationalism
Thanks to the good folks at Pan-African Community Action (PACA) for hosting the following post-film discussion. What are recorded are my comments…
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iMWiL! In Discussion: An Interview with Jared Ball and Pancho McFarland
Many thanks to Drs. Kelly Harris and Pancho Macfarland for their invitation to have this discussion today at Chicago State University. We…
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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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a Maimouna Youssef Workshop!
Drs. Mark Bolden and Jared Ball had initially worked to bring Maimouna Youssef to Morgan State University for an Artist-in-Residence, a re-creation…
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Hip-Hop in the HBCU Academy
Why is teaching hip-hop important at Historically Black Colleges and Universities? Who owns hip-hop? How does popular culture foster or build intergenerational…
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Hip-Hop’s Still Troubled Narrative: A Requiem for C. Delores Tucker
“Rap is not pop. If you call it that then stop.” – Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, “Check The Rhime” “Let them know…
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76th Birthday of George Jackson at the Charles H Wright Museum
This presentation was given at the “Liberation Film Series Presents the 76th Birthday of Revolutionary Political Prisoner George Jackson Screening: George Jackson:…
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The Angela Project: The Politics of Education
Simmons College of Kentucky, The National Baptist Convention of America, International, Inc., The Progressive National Baptist Convention, International, and the Cooperative Baptist…
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Malcolm X, Spirituality, Propaganda and War
Part One: Drs. Todd Steven Burroughs and Mark Bolden / Hosted by Haki Shakur Ammi Party Two: Dr. Jared Ball
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Nationwide Launch of the People’s Congress of Resistance
Thousands gathered live and virtually to launch the People’s Congress of Resistance which will hold its first gathering September 16-17, 2017 at…
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Frederick Douglass Convocation Keynote
It was a pleasure to keynote this year’s Frederick Douglass Convocation at Morgan State University.
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Bruce L. Turner Discusses His Great-Great-Great-Grandfather Nat
Bruce L. Turner, descendant of Nat Turner, discusses the life and legacy of his great-great-great-grandfather. This was an event convened by Dr.…