Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, the only Black woman from Baltimore, working in Baltimore as a Criminologist, was our guest academic in the car and took us for a ride around Baltimore discussing how her own history growing up there informs her current work. That work involves community engaged police training and work within and about the…
Read moreAcademics In Cars #2 – Dr. Lawrence Brown and “Category 5” Baltimore
Dr. Lawrence Brown joined us for this edition of Academics In Cars for a discussion of “Category 5” segregated Baltimore and more! Academics In Cars #2 – Dr. Lawrence Brown and "Category 5" BaltimoreWatch this video on YouTube
Read moreAcademics In Cars #1 – Marvel’s Black Panther
We just saw the film and had to discuss some of what we loved and much of what we, ahem, did not.* Some questions we raise include why isn’t Killmonger the hero??! What’s up with the pan-Africanism here?!!! Why are they smiling at each other!?!?! And is this merely a remake of Paul Robeson’s Sanders…
Read more