The Black Press are often captured in their analysis by a particular framing of the history of the Black Press which diminishes the role played in pro-capitalist and anti-communist propaganda.
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#ElombeBrath #PanAfricanism #Internationalism Cinque Brath of the Elombe Brath Foundation joined us to talk about this legendary figure and related politics, histories, ideas. SHOW NOTES: The Elombe Brath Foundationhttps://www.elombebrathfoundation.org/ NEW DISCORD!https://discord.gg/TDP9a4f5Ez Jared A. Ball is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. and author of The Myth and…
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“Black lives matter! Africa must unite! Africa must unite! Black lives matter!” Umoja: Africa Must Unite Assessing the state of “pan-Africanism” in 2021 is no simple task. An agreed-upon definition is nearly impossible. There are even some (increasing) circles that find the topic either irrelevant or of no continuing importance to any advancement of those…
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https://youtu.be/khSOLrjlc0wEugene Puryear is a co-host with Breakthrough News, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and author of Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America. He will join us for a discussion of the meaning of Left politics, historically, today, and going forward. Breakthrough News: https://www.breakthroughnews.org/ Subscribe to iMWiL! https://imixwhatilike.org
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https://youtu.be/7JgXwaQ2rbMSundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, from which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993, and in African American Studies. He previously taught in the History department and directed the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois…
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https://youtu.be/Agq45iq5rZcKwasi Konadu is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowed Chair and Professor at Colgate University, where he teaches courses in African history and on worldwide African histories and cultures. With extensive archival and field research in West Africa, Europe, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America, his writings focus on African and African diasporic histories,…
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