“‘I don’t like boxing, but he was a thing apart. His grace was almost appalling.” — Toni Morrison on Muhammad Ali, in the David Remnick book King of the World Muhammad Ali, dethroned by the United States of America but still a baadddd dude, was looking for a publisher for his autobiography in 1970. Five years…
Read moreHoyt Fuller and the Architects of the Black Arts Movement
For those of us, like our next guest, who have come through the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, The Hoyt Fuller Room is the central hub within that space and has been host to an infinite number of classes, gatherings and ceremonies, like the one we’ve just left commemorating that center’s founder…
Read moreBlack Power and Its Discontents
The incomparable Voices With Vision and Netfa Freeman invited this discussion of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael in light of continued and renewed interest in the man and his politics. We discussed this review of, and previous debate with, Peniel Joseph whose self-proclaimed “fatherhood” of, and approach to, “Black Power Studies” raises, at minimum, causes for concern. Also mentioned was…
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