Afro-Latina Women Warriors w Yvette Modestin

Jared Ball iMWiL!, Africana Studies

Yvette Modestin of Projecto Colon and co-author/editor of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora joined us this week.  She shared with us her own life story of being an Afro-Latina from Colon, Panama and the politics of gender, race and ethnicity in the context of anti-colonial/imperial movement-building.  In the second half of the show we heard from some of the contributors to A…

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Mass Media and African Sovereignty

Jared Ball Africana Studies, Articles, Media Studies

Mass Media and African Sovereignty Jared Ball It is always appropriate for a people to question the status of their sovereignty.  It seems especially timely during the month of August, or as some refer to it, Black August; the time when we commemorate the Black liberation struggle, prison reform movement and political prisoners.  This past…

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