Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. Fred Carroll. University of Illinois Press, 278 pp., $27.95. The Rise and Fall of the Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox. Gerald Horne. University of Illinois Press, 272 pp., $24.95. Reviewed by Todd…
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By Daniel Falcone Jared Ball is Professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto, and coeditor of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. Ball has been a steady force, offering fresh and powerful insights into the…
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