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What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America. Michael Eric Dyson. St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had written the 1961 film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” instead of the play’s creator, Lorraine Hansberry — one of the genius wordsmiths the former has written about in his new book—would Beneatha, Walter Lee Younger’s younger sister, have turned her face toward
Book Review: Ron Walters, Power Man
Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010. Robert C. Smith. State University of New York Press, 354 pp., $34.95. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Dr. Ronald Walters presenting at the “Africana @ 40” Conference in 2010 at
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 and the politics of celebrity all in
NEW VIDEO! Agency and Agencies: Still Much More on the Politics of (The Black Panther) Film
Drs. Ball, Bolden and Burroughs, “The Killer Bs,” sat down for an “impromptu radio” formatted discussion of Burroughs’ new book, Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comic Book Biography, From Stan Lee To Ta-Nehisi Coates and more… UPDATED HIGHLINE COLLEGE VIDEO!
4th Anniversary! Son-Shine On Cracked Sidewalks: An Audiobook by Todd Steven Burroughs
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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 also participated) and to create workshops for students. Well,
South Carolina Prisoners Reflect on Causes of Violence In Prisons and Solutions
The following was submitted by Jared Ware whose information and contact follow the interview. The deadliest incident of violence in a United States prison in a quarter century took place at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina on April
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