Young, Pretty and Hard-Hitting – Academics In Cars #13
We were joined in this edition of #AcademicsInCars by the artist and activist Skipp Coon. We talked hip-hop, politics, and what it means that "I'm young, pretty and I hit hard!"
Category: Pop Culture
The Vernon Philosophy Of Black Media Avoidance
“I got a call from Mahershala Ali, a very, very respectful phone call, from him personally. He called me and my Uncle Maurice in which he apologized profusely if there had been any offense,”...
Unsilencing Stealth Histories of Armed Struggle and Shortcomings of Left Media Analysis
This is an important re-posting of an interview with (April 2016) and statement from (May 2017) Dhoruba bin-Wahad. Dhoruba bin-Wahad, formerly of The Black Panther Party and Black Liberation...
Defining Phenomena: Propaganda, Power and the Black Panther Party
This was a presentation given during the All Power to the People! Emory Douglas & The Black Panthers hosted by West Den Haag. AUDIO ONLY
Redefining Veteran’s Day
Originally published in 2011 with Black Agenda Report. I am officially a veteran. Like many I was conscripted by this country’s “poverty draft” and its associated judicial-military pipeline,...
Donald Glover and the Vernon Philosophy of Black Media Avoidance
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...
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 of the Dave Chappelle Block Party (in which she...
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, I mean, damn! Yikes! And in this circulating photo, just one...
