Professor Frank Wilderson was in Washington, D.C. on Saturday February 5, 2011 to discuss his books Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid and Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. He read from Incognegro which is about his time as a member of the armed wing of the African National…
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Dr. Frank Wilderson was back with The Killer Bs (Drs. Jared Ball, Todd Steven Burroughs and Hate) recently to discuss police violence within the context of anti-Blackness. We discussed the on-going crisis of police brutality and particularly how that persistent violence explains a larger and permanent “social death” imposed on Black people in the U.S….
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This week we quickly tried to correct the record regarding the move of WPFW to Clear Channel studios, then we spoke with Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua about the deaths of Dr. Robert Chrisman and author Chinua Achebe and the former’s work with The Black Scholar journal. We then spent the rest of the program with Dr. Frank Wilderson about his work in Azania/South Africa, the anti-Black world and staying…
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