Set The World On Fire: Black Nationalist Women And The Global Struggle For Freedom. Keisha N. Blain. University of Pennsylvania Press, 264 pp., $34.95. James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement. Sara Rzeszutek. The University Press of Kentucky, 384 pp. $30. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs ONCE…
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That Time Storm And The Black Panther Led The Fantastic Four: Magic Frogs, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X By Todd Steven Burroughs [EXCERPTED FROM THE FORTHCOMING (FEBRUARY 2018): Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates,” published by Diasporic Africa Press, 2018.] From 2007 to early 2008, the Panther…
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Coming on the heels of the 44th anniversary of the assassination of Fred Hampton (December 4, 1969) and the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party Bruce Dixon of BlackAgendaReport.com and Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of DrumsInTheGlobalVillage.com were on hand for a discussion of the academic erasure of…
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