by Jared Ball | Apr 23, 2018 | Articles, imwil!, Media Criticism, Political Economy, The Myth of Black "Buying Power"
It is deeply appreciated that the Myth of Black Buying Power has been included within the appropriate context of this new and broader study by a collective of economists and researchers into the abundance of confusion imposed regarding the realities of inequality in...
by Jared Ball | Mar 13, 2018 | Academics In Cars, imwil!, Political Economy, Videos
Episode #5 of Academics In Cars featured Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Senior Fellow, Racial Wealth Divide at Prosperity Now. Dedrick was kind enough to be both guest and driver as we discussed his work regarding the racial wealth divide and mixed martial arts. [dzs_video...
by iMWiL Contributor | Feb 7, 2018 | Africana Studies, Articles, dhoruba bin-wahad, Political Economy, World News
Last month Reuters reported that : More central banks in Europe revealed plans on Tuesday to hold yuan as part of their foreign currency reserves, highlighting the Chinese currency’s rise into an elite league of the world’s major reserve currencies. News like this...
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....
by Jared Ball | Jan 20, 2018 | Africana Studies, Articles, Emancipatory Journalism, imwil!, Media Criticism, Mixtape Journalism, Political Economy, Pop Culture
I and some others were asked recently by Dhoruba bin-Wahad to consider the story (below) from Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post at the end of 2017 called “History through Cuban Eyes: Noticiero ICAIC.” Specifically, we were being asked by bin-Wahad to...
by iMWiL Contributor | Jan 18, 2018 | Articles, Political Economy, World News
With so much recent mainstream press evocation of Joseph Stalin and claims of “enemy of the people” comparisons to Donald Trump we thought it timely to share some recent thoughts on the subject from journalist, professor and writer Saswat Pattanayak. As an...
