Blues People, Communism, and Black Revolution
#AmiriBaraka #TomPorter #BlackArtsMovement (10:00) Show Start SHOW NOTES:Is Black Crypto Freedom? Or Fad?https://into-america.simplecast.com/episodes/is-black-crypto-freedom-or-a-fad-QVSsd4Ew NEW BPM DISCORD!https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020). Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”,…
Read more‘Alternative Media and Spaces’ and the Exclusion of Radical Politics
Drs. Todd Steven Burroughs and Jared Ball joined Voices With Vision to discuss the erasure of radicalism from nominally radical spaces and media. The two talk about their work A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X and the latest documentary from Netflix.
Read moreNew Netflix Documentary Avoids the Why in Favor of the “Who Killed Malcolm X?”
By largely ignoring questions of “why” he was killed the new Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” largely ignores the important politics and ideas that made Malcolm X a symbol to this day of international revolutionary struggle. REFERENCED ITEMS: A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X The Unlucky 13th: Liberalizing the Extreme Defining…
Read moreHoyt Fuller and the Architects of the Black Arts Movement
For those of us, like our next guest, who have come through the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, The Hoyt Fuller Room is the central hub within that space and has been host to an infinite number of classes, gatherings and ceremonies, like the one we’ve just left commemorating that center’s founder…
Read moreNewark’s Black-Powered Engineer: Kenneth Gibson (1932-2019)
By Todd Steven Burroughs NEWARK SYMPHONY HALL was, at best, half full Thursday night for the funeral of Kenneth Gibson, whose full surname will always be Newark’s first African-American mayor and the first Black mayor of a major northeastern city. It was packed for Amiri Baraka, but that was five years ago. Cinco years is…
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