Whose Black Panther? The Politics and History of the Comic and Film

https://youtu.be/XLFJzKy4rb8 Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs of the iMWiL! crew joined the iMWiL! crew in our collaboration with Netfa Freeman of WPFW‘s Voices With Vision for this wide-ranging, powerful discussion of his new book: Marvel’s Black Panther: A Comicbook Biography, From Stan Lee to Ta-Nehisi Coates.  We discussed, among much else, the history of comics, White writers…

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Revolutionary Politics and Remembrance

This week we quickly tried to correct the record regarding the move of WPFW to Clear Channel studios, then we spoke with Dr. Sundiata Cha-Jua about the deaths of Dr. Robert Chrisman and author Chinua Achebe and the former’s work with The Black Scholar journal.  We then spent the rest of the program with Dr. Frank Wilderson about his work in Azania/South Africa, the anti-Black world and staying…

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