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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On this week’s show we were joined by Charo Mina-Rojas and Ajamu Baraka for a discussion of Afro-Colombia and the African World. We also heard from Uno the Prophet about Occupy the Hood in Boston and its struggles with the Occupy Wall Street campaign there and we had in-studio commentary and performance from Ka’Ba. All this plus music from Immortal Technique, Mos Def…
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Known mostly as a forced concubine of Osama bin-Laden Kola Boof is a poet and author who joined us this morning for a discussion of her work and the struggles toward pan-African unity. Senfo Tonkam was back with us to also discuss these and related issues but also to share his experience as a…
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