We had an “academic barbershop roundtable” this morning on the politics of race and pop culture in the context of Black superhero comic books. Our guests were Drs. Adilifu Nama (author of Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes), Dwain Pruitt (comic author and Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State…
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*Originally published July 13, 2011 / Black Agenda Report and before Bradley became Chelsea Manning Bradley Manning, Political Imprisonment and the Myopia of the Left Jared Ball As long as we continue to allow the United States to function as an empire it will. And as long as it treats many of its own “citizens”…
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… 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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