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It’s Black History Month and the Sankofa Bird Speaks
Feb. 14 | History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they’ve been and what they’ve been; where...
Azania, Hip-Hop and Politics in Freestyle
Jan. 2 | Dr. Mark Bolden, aka “Hate,” aka “OBJuanCanHateMe,” puts politics to freestyle in Azania (colonially renamed “South Africa”). Shout out to The Fanon Project and to Dr. Shawn Utsey!
USA Militarizing Africa
Dec. 8 | “Militarizing Africa” – Part I of a four-part radio documentary series about the destructive impact of U.S. imperialism on Africa, featuring voices of African activists interviewed at the 2007 World Social Forum held in Nairobi, Kenya. Through...
I MiX What I Like! in Amsterdam
Nov. 25 | With the help of AK Press and the Bollox bookstore in Amsterdam we had a great time presenting and discussing I Mix What I Like! It was a new context of course, with various strands of Europeans and Africans from the diaspora all rapping about identity,...
Malcolm X’s Biography: Panel Discussion
Nov. 16 | The Center for the Study of Race, Culture and Ethnicity at Ithaca College attempted to convene a critical dialogue regarding Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Initially the event was to be a discussion between Dr. Jared Ball and...
“Thinking Black” About Double Consciousness: The Limits of (Black) Phenomenology
Oct. 27 | The use of Du Bois’s double-consciousness as an analytic tool to read “Blackness,” especially in our contemporary post-Civil Rights era, is elementary as it simply names the psychic duality imposed upon “Third World” subjects by a white-supremacist...
The Black Franchise in 2012 and Beyond
Oct. 17 | Human agency as the right to live, to be free, to self-determine your existence characterized the initial struggle for enslaved Africans in the American empire. The long prelude to becoming “American” played out on a bloody stage. And though less...
“Treat Us Right – Not White” – NAPFE History Revealed
Oct. 12 | One cannot discuss the struggle for African-American compensated employment in the United States without studying the circumstances that led to the founding of the National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (NAPFE). Paul Nehru Tennassee has made...
