Esi Ramu developed and hosted this powerful edition of the Super Funky Soul Power Hour. Our guest this week, Dr. Kipoeech araap Sambu, who is warmly compared to the legendary Cheikh Anta Diop, exposed our audience to the lesser known of the already lesser known. His focus on today’s east African communities and their ancestral lineage…
Read moreBook Review: I Mix What I Like: A Mixtape Manifesto by Jared Ball
Taken together, “I Mix What I Like’s” jewels represent a compelling assessment of the status not only of African America, but also of its colonial master.* – Dr. Brian Sims “Expecting there to be a sanctioned press from among the colonized that poses journalistic challenges to established power is simply irrational.” – Jared Ball *This…
Read moreThe 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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