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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...
A Revolutionary Look at Cape Verdean Independence 36 Years In
Oct. 11 | …it behooves us, as African diasporic people, to be certain that before we wave a flag in celebration of freedom and independence, we make ourselves conscious and clear about what the true definition of freedom is. by Marco McWilliams Amilcar Cabral I...
Reading Hip Hop: Off the Records, In the Books Lecture: I Mix What I Like!
Sep. 10 | I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto was this year’s inaugural book talk at CUNY’s Center for Worker Education series “Reading Hip Hop: Off the Records, In the Books.” The discussion was engaging, challenging and we think a good start for...
Black Without Borders?
Sep. 7 | …if we are ex-communicating people based on their lack of concern or outright hostility toward Black people, are we kicking out the drug dealers, gang-bangers, and pimps whose missions include becoming rich and powerful at the expense of our communities? by...
