Edge of Sports and The Nation with Dave Zirin This week we talk to Jared Ball, professor of Communication Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore. We talk to him about his new book, The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, the history of the concept, and its connection to black radical politics. powered…
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The harassment of radical senior citizen Mumia Abu-Jamal continues, even during a pandemic. It’s not enough that’s he’s been in jail for almost 40 years (he turns 66 on April 24). Now Pennsylvania prison authorities–the world’s sorest-winner champions–cruelly lied that he was ill, possibly with COVID. By Todd Steven Burroughs Death’s shadow can replicate over…
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It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little disconcerted. In the article, the magazine editor and history book author is in a vehicle zooming along in South Carolina at 70 mph by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman Stokely Carmichael, and a…
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