The Revolution will not be Televised-it will be Remixed! Hip Hop Colonialism versus Emancipatory (Mixtape) Journalism a Review by Lawrence Grandpre

… Morgan State University professor Jared Ball in his new book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto… [offers] a penetrating look at the way Black culture has become a commodity to be exploited for profit and a tool for the control of the brown masses, as corporate interest promote the vapid and tacitly…

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In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future

In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future* *Originally published in the March 2011 issue of BLAC Detroit magazine. What are you? I have been asked this question for so long, some might think I should be over it. I’m not. Not because I…

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DHORUBA BIN-WAHAD’S LETTER TO A BLACK POLITICAL PRISONER IN THE USA

Pic courtesy of Gay City News Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, a former member of the Black Panther Party, and Black Liberation Army, penned this letter to his late comrade Abdul Majid, who died in 2017 while in prison. This letter although written over 8 years ago, vividly illustrates the political and social forces still at work in…

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