https://youtu.be/3pSHCDgvw_sMaintaining focus and media attention on the plight and politics of political prisoners is seen as essential. We will discuss this with Karanja Keita Carroll, Ph.D. who is currently a member of the Department of Black & Latinx Studies at Baruch College (CUNY). His teaching and research interests revolve around African-centered theory & methodology, with…
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Linn Washington is a veteran journalist who spent years in Philadelphia covering the MOVE Movement. He currently teaches courses in investigative reporting, journalism law and multimedia reporting and news writing. He co-created the department’s innovative Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL). For eight years, he also directed and co-directed PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods.com, the department’s capstone class. Student work…
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Watch this video on YouTube It was announced Sunday night that Russell “Maroon” Shoatz, a political prisoner in the tradition of George Jackson and so many others, has added COVID to his fourth-stage cancer diagnosis. The following, written by Fred Ho, is from the prelude of Shoatz’s 2013 book, Maroon The Implacable: The Collected Writings…
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