The full iMiXWHATiLiKE Killer Bs Squad was on hand to pay tribute to Cheikh Anta Diop, Frantz Fanon and all those in struggle against police violence and imposed inequalities. We did this in the context of a tribute to the 1974 UNESCO Conference on Ancient Egypt at which Cheikh Anta Diop and Theophile Obenga successfully…
Read moreIrreconcilable Anti-Blackness and Police Violence w Dr. Frank Wilderson
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….
Read moreHafrocentric w Juliana “Jules” Smith
Juliana “Jules” Smith joined us to discuss her brilliant comic book Hafrocentric. And here is our earlier interview with Dr. Jared Sexton.
Read moreRobert Allen, Black Awakening and Internal Colonialism Theory
We went intellectual-digital-crate-digging and found excerpts from a 2009 interview conducted with professor Robert Allen about his development and use of Internal Colonialism Theory and from later that same year we found Allen’s keynote address at: A Celebration of the First Forty Years of The Black Scholar journal.
Read moreCapitalism: Racial and Social Justice Orientation @ CUNY Law School
I was asked to visit CUNY Law School today to discuss capitalism and social justice… Among those who drive now and those who have driven previously the traditions or lineages that most impact me there are no uniform conclusions as to what a new world would be or precisely how it would be organized. However,…
Read moreSports Talk Radio and North American Apartheid
This was a presentation given at the Passing the Ball: Race and Sports conference at Temple University. In 1913 James Sullivan, the U.S. minister to the Dominican Republic said: “I deem it worthy of the Department’s notice that the American game of baseball is being played and supported here with great enthusiasm. The remarkable effect of this…
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