Mass Media and African Sovereignty Jared Ball It is always appropriate for a people to question the status of their sovereignty. It seems especially timely during the month of August, or as some refer to it, Black August; the time when we commemorate the Black liberation struggle, prison reform movement and political prisoners. This past…
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Beaten Rhymes and Strife: The Instinctive Travels of A Tribe Called Colonized Jared Ball A documentary film about the legendary rap group A Tribe Called Quest should be a very big deal. A film about them should be as wide-ranging as this collective of talent. And the film should be as powerful as the time…
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… 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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