Many view Juneteenth as a celebration for slaves in Texas who finally received word on June 19, 1865, that they were free. But it took more than two years for that news to reach the ears of those enslaved after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. While it took several more months for slavery to…
Read moreThe #MOBP, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, & Data Mining
Dr. Jared Ball, Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020), host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media, joins the show to discuss his research, work and book entitled “The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power,”…
Read more10th Anniversary Debate Over Media Reform with Robert McChesney
As a follow up and response to his keynote address on the state of mass media and journalism Robert McChesney sat down this morning with Jared Ball for a discussion of that address. This all was part of the Center for American and World Cultures Robert E. Strippel Memorial at Miami University (OH). McChesney and Ball discussed differences of historical interpretation, societal…
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