By Daniel Falcone Jared Ball is Professor of communication studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is the author of I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto, and coeditor of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X. Ball has been a steady force, offering fresh and powerful insights into the…
Read more2017: A Pop Cultural Year In Review
Had the pleasure of being back on Sputnik Radio‘s By Any Means Necessary where as they summarize: In the final segments Dr. Jared Ball, father, husband, professor at Morgan State University, and curator of imixwhatilike.org, joins Sean Blackmon and Eugene Puryear to talk about Dr. Umar Johnson, the ongoing spat between Dr. Cornell West and Ta Nehisi Coates, the state…
Read moreTa-Nehisi Coates, The Obama Embedded Journalist, Wokes :)
We caught up briefly with Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs to discuss his recent review (see below) of the new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Obama Embedded Journalist, Wokes 🙂 (Or, How Trump’s Big White Lifesaver Pulled Him Out From Drowning In Kool-Aid) A review/commentary by Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs We Were Eight Years…
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