Over the summer I had been invited to contribute to the new online journalism review from Morgan State University. Editorial decisions being what they are I have posted my original below with its original title and some important content left uncut. You can find the new online journalism review from MSU here.
Read moreAfro-Latina Women Warriors w Yvette Modestin
Yvette Modestin of Projecto Colon and co-author/editor of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora joined us this week. She shared with us her own life story of being an Afro-Latina from Colon, Panama and the politics of gender, race and ethnicity in the context of anti-colonial/imperial movement-building. In the second half of the show we heard from some of the contributors to A…
Read moreThe Evangelists of Social Media
The “evangelists of social media,” according to Malcolm Gladwell, want us to believe that the revolution we all want has simply been awaiting Twitter or Facebook accounts. And having now achieved them by the hundreds of thousands these evangelists would have us believe that success – political, economic or social – is inevitable. But all this…
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