This is black excellence The Space Program Album: Curriculum of the Mind

Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson and The Space Program Collective: A review by Tryon P. Woods This is black excellence.  Never mind Jay-Z and Kanye.  Forget hero-worship, commodity fetish, corporate-compromise, and the consumption of everyday black lives for individual wealth and national aggrandizement.  Black excellence is independent and collective; it is process-oriented and in it for…

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Why Some Like The New Jim Crow So Much

WHY SOME LIKE THE NEW JIM CROW SO MUCH: Michelle Alexander is unlike “Some Radical Group[s]” who must be “Crazy” & “Absurd” by Greg Thomas “This book is not for everyone.” – Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010) Riveted on “skeptics,” Michelle Alexander writes of “three major racialized systems of control adopted in the…

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“THE INVISIBLE SHADOW AND THE HIGH-TOP FADE: The Mortal Cells of America’s Political Prisoners, Freedom’s Untouchables,” A Book-Length Essay

– BLACK POWER MEDIA AND IMIXWHATILIKE.ORG PRESENT AN AFRICAN HERITAGE MONTH SPECIAL – By Todd Steven Burroughs (© Main text copyright 2019, 2022 by Todd Steven Burroughs, Ph.D. The “Open Letter” prologue is copyrighted 2020 by the signatories and the 2021 Congressional hearing testimonies in the Appendices are copyrighted by the witnesses. Both supplemental Appendices…

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