Greetings and Solidarity to each of you. In recognition of your individual voice, influence, and cultural following among current generations of Black people/Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent, we salute you. While we only know you from the public domain, we know that many of you come from backgrounds where you faced poverty,…
Read moreCurriculum Wars and the Heroification of White Supremacy
The following is an edited summary of comments made previously during The Angela Project (2017) conference and were initially slated for publication in a subsequent journal. Given all that has occurred since, including my disagreements with the founders of “#ADOS” who had initially invited me to this conference, I suspect it is the comments I…
Read moreThe Vernon Philosophy Of Black Media Avoidance
“I got a call from Mahershala Ali, a very, very respectful phone call, from him personally. He called me and my Uncle Maurice in which he apologized profusely if there had been any offense,” Edwin told Shadow and Act. “What he said was, ‘If I have offended you, I am so, so terribly sorry. I did…
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