The Ujima People’s Progress Party – Fixing Electoral Politics

https://youtu.be/pHsclXRrOXMNnamdi Lumumba of the UPP will join us to discuss the work of his party. From the UPP site: https://www.uppmaryland.org The Ujima People’s Progress Party (UPP) Organizing Committee is a genuine grassroots, community effort to build the first Black workers-led electoral party for social and economic justice in Maryland. We are not financed by big…

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Defining the Left with Eugene Puryear

https://youtu.be/khSOLrjlc0wEugene Puryear is a co-host with Breakthrough News, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and author of Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America. He will join us for a discussion of the meaning of Left politics, historically, today, and going forward. Breakthrough News: https://www.breakthroughnews.org/ Subscribe to iMWiL! https://imixwhatilike.org

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Black Radical Internationalism: A Year In Review with Ajamu Baraka

https://youtu.be/3dF39QPpFe8The National Organizer for Black Alliance for Peace Ajamu Baraka will join us for a 2020 Black Radical Political Year In Review! The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) seeks to recapture and redevelop the historic anti-war, anti-imperialist, and pro-peace positions of the radical black movement. Through educational activities, organizing and movement support, organizations and individuals…

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Adolph Reed, Jr and Black Lives Matter

https://youtu.be/D8cZbR6cL28Reed returns to discuss his critique of #BlackLivesMatter in light of recent and very public criticism of the leadership coming from grassroots organizers within affiliated chapters. Adolph Leonard Reed Jr. was (until his retirement in 2019) an American Marxist professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in studies of issues of…

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Advertising and Black Politics

https://youtu.be/c-PRVwkgK_g NOTE I am not sure where I got the connection between Netflix and the Black Economic Alliance. I think I confused their “Black Economic Development initiative…” as BEA and would have only been more confused by the incredible similarity of approach which does speak to the larger point intended here. The initiative from Netflix:…

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Book Review: Ron Walters, Power Man

Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010. Robert C. Smith. State University of New York Press, 354 pp., $34.95. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs Dr. Ronald Walters presenting at the “Africana @ 40” Conference in 2010 at the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University [dzs_video source=”https://vimeo.com/26820943″ config=”imwil skin” autoplay=”off” cue=”off”…

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