Tag: jared ball
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The Origins of Police Violence
Head Roc · “Police Origins” w/ “Tarzan” from Head-Roc’s “NEGROPHOBIA!” LP (2005) It was an honor to have been part of this…
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Remembering Justo Faison and Hip-Hop’s Debt to the Mixtape
This was an incredible discussion with Regan Sommer McCoy curator of the Mixtape Museum! We talked about the history of mixtapes and…
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Fantasies vs. Nightmares, Prison Abolition vs. Medical Genocide: As The “Free Mumia” Movement Prepares To Celebrate His Birthday, A Cruel, Late April Fool’s Joke About Abu-Jamal Possibly Having COVID-19 Symptoms Backfires
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…
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The Revolution On Your Momma’s Coffee Table: Lerone Bennett Jr., Black Power, Pan-Africanism and the Schizophrenia of Ebony Magazine, 1966-1976
It’s September 1966, and the regular reader of Ebony gets the sinking feeling that its jali, Lerone Bennett Jr., is a little…
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Race, Rebellion, Reporting and Research: Baltimore and The Kerner Commission at 50
“Can you hear me? … I’m Screaming from way down here below!” – Hugh Masekela I. INTRODUCTION “Chief Blame for Riots Put…
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Preserve The Baltimore Uprising Archive Project
“This project began in April 2015. Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man from Baltimore, was arrested by Baltimore police on April 12, 2015.…