Who’s Malcolm X? Amiri Baraka and Bill Fletcher Debate
Though the discussion here was not of our forthcoming book, A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X, it does speak directly to the issue(s) we raise therein. During their exchange...
View ArticleCapitol Resistance! I Mix What I Like ft. Head-Roc
Dr. Jared Ball and Head-Roc returned as Capitol Resistance this week first at the Yakima, WA. Students of Color Conference and then HERE at Highline Community College’s Unity Week. After a brief...
View ArticleWhy Some Like THE NEW JIM CROW So Much
Greg Thomas offers up a strong and important critique of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander’s book has taken many by storm and been credited by many...
View ArticleNew Media and Social Activism at the Manning Marable Memorial Conference
Herb Boyd moderated this panel on Media and Social Activism at the 2012 Manning Marable Memorial Conference at Columbia University. The panel consisted of Vicky Gholson and Jared Ball who discussed...
View ArticleDefending Black Studies / Education For Liberation
Defending the legacy of Africana/Black Studies and the appropriate study of all First Nations people globally is suffering a renewed attack these days. Add to the recent struggles over Chicano studies...
View ArticleA Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X! Now Available!
Rather than view Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention as “a definitive work,” as some have called it, I, along with many others, believe Marable has left us a severely flawed biography....
View ArticleMixtapes, National Communication and Radical Media
I was interviewed for a small piece in this month’s Details magazine titled, “Rewind: The Cassette Makes a Comeback” by Courtney Balestier. Most of our 20 minute discussion was reduced to one comment...
View ArticleDr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta...
This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending...
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