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Dr. James Turner: Internal Colonialism Summarized
In this never before published short interview with Dr. James Turner, legendary founding Chair of the Africana Studies and Research Center at…
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An iMWiL! EXCLUSIVE: Book Excerpt: POLICE FORCED: The Case of Earl Faison, By Lawrence Hamm (with Annette M. Alston)
Thursday night, the People’s Organization for Progress, a New Jersey progressive activist group, will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the police killing…
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Pan-Africanism and The #ADOS Phenomenon
Thanks to Baltimore’s Reality Speaks and Pleasant Hope Baptist Church for hosting this conversation. The full video will be coming soon from…
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A Brief History of Pan-Africanism with Hakim Adi
Professor Hakim Adi was a guest of Dr. Herbert Brewer at Morgan State University. We discussed a history of Pan-Africanism, its history,…
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Tommy Curry and The Man [Still] Not!
We were joined in this edition of iMWiL! once again by Dr. Tommy Curry for a part two of our discussion of…
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Mueller, Media and Russia
A quick summary of the Mueller probe, its meaning and media coverage.
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Drugs As Weapons Against Us with John Potash
We were joined again by John Potash to talk about the new documentary release based on his book Drugs As Weapons Against…
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That Time Rutgers-Newark Black Students Took Over Conklin Hall 50 Years Ago, Renaming It “Liberation Hall”
Pictured above: Members of the Rutgers University Black Organization of Students (BOS) unfurl a banner renaming Rutgers-Newark’s Conklin Hall in February of…
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Talking Pan-Africanism with Anoa Changa
I appreciated being invited to this discussion on The Way With Anoa and all that [SURPRISE!] is revealed! “On this episode, Anoa…
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Black Universities: Shelter Or Storm?
Are Historically Black Colleges and Universities understood? Do HBCUs foster Black unity and radicalism or conservative acceptance of and adherence to establishment…
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Curriculum 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…
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A Lie of Reinvention, Africana Studies, Black August, Black Liberation Media, Books, Media Studies, Panels & Presentations
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
“This collection of essays by Black scholars and activists, edited by Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs, is a critical response to…
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Poverty Scholarship: Redistribution of Wealth and Ideas
We were joined in this edition by Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia, author and editor of Poverty Scholarship: Poor People-Led Theory, Art, Words, &…
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The Fake Of News
“Fake News” is a fake of news in that its contemporary meaning, use, deployment masks an initial “fakeness” of “news” itself. Thanks…
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Young, Pretty and Hard-Hitting – Academics In Cars #13
We were joined in this edition of #AcademicsInCars by the artist and activist Skipp Coon. We talked hip-hop, politics, and what it…
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Zionism and Black Radical Internationalism
Thanks to the good folks at Pan-African Community Action (PACA) for hosting the following post-film discussion. What are recorded are my comments…
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Unsilencing Stealth Histories of Armed Struggle and Shortcomings of Left Media Analysis
This is an important re-posting of an interview with (April 2016) and statement from (May 2017) Dhoruba bin-Wahad. Dhoruba bin-Wahad, formerly of The Black…