It was a pleasure joining Kelly Mikel Williams and his show Black Politics Today for a discussion of my forthcoming (June 1, 2020) book The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. According to the Nielsen ratings, the 48 Million African-Americans in America spend $1.3Trillion annually, establishing their buying power greater than the 9th largest…
Read moreBook Review: Inside Negro Pan-African Intellectual Kingdoms Of Shifting Sands
Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. Fred Carroll. University of Illinois Press, 278 pp., $27.95. The Rise and Fall of the Negro Press: Claude Barnett’s Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox. Gerald Horne. University of Illinois Press, 272 pp., $24.95. Reviewed by Todd…
Read moreState of the Press and Black Press w Richard Prince of Journal-isms
Richard Prince of the online column Journal-isms joined us for a quick update on the state of the press and of the Black press in particular. We also discussed, with some disagreement, the prospects for honoring the press tradition established by Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm co-founders of Freedom’s Journal (1827).
Read more