Brian Becker and Loud and Clear: “For generations, African-Americans have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of “buying power.” But a new book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. “The Myth…
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On today’s episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Eddie Conway, Executive Producer with The Real News Network who was a leading member of the Baltimore branch of the Black Panther Party and a political prisoner for 44 years, and Dr. Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University,…
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Drs. Todd Steven Burroughs and Jared Ball joined Voices With Vision to discuss the erasure of radicalism from nominally radical spaces and media. The two talk about their work A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X and the latest documentary from Netflix.
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