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…
Read moreCelebrating 50 Years of Black Studies
Drs. Carol Henderson, Dana Williams and Jared Ball discuss the state of Black / Africana Studies during what is the discipline’s 50th anniversary. The event was organized and hosted by Dr. Casarae L. Gibson of Syracuse University.
Read moreNotes on the Cornel West & Ta-Nehisi Coates “Feud:” An Interview with Professor Jared Ball
By Daniel Falcone Jared Ball is Professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto, and coeditor of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. Ball has been a steady force, offering fresh and powerful insights into the…
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