Dayvon Love and Lawrence Grandpre of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle in Baltimore, MD. joined us to discuss the difficulties faced by Black youth looking to assume leadership over various aspects of their struggle for change.
Read moreDr. King Commemorated: COINTELPRO and the 45th Anniversary of the Assassination of Dr. King
Activists and scholars gathered at Morgan State University April 4, 2013 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The event’s focus was the particular relationship Dr. King had at the end of his life with the state, its mass media and leading civil rights leadership which meant a particular…
Read moreThe Revolution will not be Televised-it will be Remixed! Hip Hop Colonialism versus Emancipatory (Mixtape) Journalism a Review by Lawrence Grandpre
… Morgan State University professor Jared Ball in his new book I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto… [offers] a penetrating look at the way Black culture has become a commodity to be exploited for profit and a tool for the control of the brown masses, as corporate interest promote the vapid and tacitly…
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