“Please Let Me Testify!” Maryland Faculty Collective Bargaining Hearings

Oral Testimony Submitted to the Maryland Senate Finance Committee By [Jared Ball, Dr.] SB 247 State Personnel – Collective Bargaining – Faculty, Part-Time Faculty, and Graduate Assistants February 16, 2023 FAVORABLE Greetings to those gathered. My name is Jared Ball and I am currently a tenured full professor at Morgan State University where I have…

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Assessing Roland Martin’s ‘Autopsy’ of The Black News Channel

#BlackNewsChannel #RolandMartin #BlackPress Watch the FULL SHOW:https://youtu.be/PtMcX4yqztI Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power (Palgrave, 2020). Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media which can be found…

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Prisoner Rebellions and Journalism for Combat

#Prisons #Journalism #Rebellion (10:00) Will Smith Smacks Chris Rock!(25:05) Too Black Discusses Prisons, Rebellion and Journalism(1:01:46) Jared Ware, Brooke Terpstra, Too Black and Erica Caines discuss The Journalism for Liberation and Combat Seminar(2:17:47) Assessing Roland Martin’s “Autopsy” of Black News Channel and Its Demise SHOW NOTES: Too Black, Jared Ware and Tio Brooke will all…

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Glen Ford: The James Brown of Black Radical Media

Writing about James Brown in 2014 Glen Ford said, “Left unsaid was the fact that “Mr. Brown” held only one Black person in high regard: himself. With the release of the movie Get On Up, those of us who knew “Soul Brother Number One” are free at last to tell the truth: he was an…

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Emancipatory Journalism w Dr. Hemant Shah

The idea of “development journalism,” central to many discussions of mass communication and development in the Third World, needs to be reconceptualized because deliberations about its validity and usefulness have been bogged down in arguments structured by Western notions of press freedom. The debate has diverted attention from important questions about how journalism can contribute…

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