Pictured: Osage Ave today, 30 years after the MOVE organization and family were bombed there by Philadelphia police May 13, 1985
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Russell “Maroon” Shoatz and The Euphemism of “Mass Incarceration”
Today we discussed the euphemisms of “mass incarceration,” “new slavery,” “new Jim Crow,” “prison industrial complex,” and others with Dominque Stevenson, Yusef Bunchy Shakur and members of the Friend of A Friend prison program. We also heard from Theresa Shoatz about her father and political prisoner Russell “Maroon” Shoatz and his new book edited by…
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Degrees of Propaganda: The University and Public Opinion
This talk was given as the keynote address to an open-session of the Faculty Senate at Howard University March 29, 2019. When black scholars hear the call to equal opportunity in darkness, they must remember that they do not belong in the darkness of an American culture that refuses to move toward the light. They…
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