Why could Mumia Abu-Jamal receive books on Death Row in the 1980s, 1990s and 00s but is severely restricted in his ability to receive books in 2020, even though he is in general population? In the Acknowledgements section of Johanna Fernandez’s new book, The Young Lords: A Radical History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina…
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Dr. Otis Williams, Chair of the Department of Counseling at Bowie State University, joined us to discuss his founding of the African Psychology Student Association and annual conference. We discussed the meaning, value, and necessity of African Psychology and counseling, including what it means to be “African,” and the diaspora-wide impact of Western approaches to…
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Dr. Gaye Theresa Johnson joined us to discuss her book Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. We talked about Black and Brown histories, hip-hop, identity and pop culture, as well as, the appropriation of political struggle, “si se puede” to “yes we can.”
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