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Montessori: An Alternative Education for Black Children?
Feb. 21 | Securing the next generation of Black folks will have to mean raising children that can think outside of the boxes imposed upon the identities and trajectories of Black people. At a recent meeting of Black creative minds held in Akron (Ohio), the conversation...
MEDIA and the (IM)POSSIBILITY OF DEMOCRACY: A Call to Action
Feb. 17 | As a follow up and response to his keynote address on the state of mass media and journalism Robert McChesney sat down this morning with Jared Ball for a discussion of that address. This all was part of the Center for American and World Cultures Robert...
Remarks on “Family” in the Third World
Feb. 16 | "Modern" Family? Capitalism and western modernity (colonialism) has produced a rupture in world history, particularly the “third world” precisely for the reason that it has re-arranged the structure of relationships and kinship among...
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...
The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement w Meron Wondwosen
Feb. 10 | Meron Wondwosen of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement joined us this week. We discussed Afrikan liberation, organizing in the Obama era and the politics of gender and sexuality. We also heard music from Curtis Mayfield, Rah Digga, Donny Hathaway and...
Hip-Hop Nation: Mixtape Revolution? Review and Response!
Feb. 8 | The following review was first published February 6, 2012 by LeftTurn Magazine by Xan West. With permission of the magazine we’ve republished the review here with a response to the review by the book’s author. Stay tuned for future...
The Crime of Reporting Crime
Feb. 7 | Recently in the media industry various outlets and magazines including CNN and other outlets compiled a list of the most dangerous cities in the world; Detroit was on the list. This is an example of how shallow and worthless journalism, reporting and...
U.S. Apartheid and The Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement
Feb. 3 | Imhotep Fatiu of the Baltimore-based Pan-Afrikan Liberation Movement and Dedrick Muhammad, co-author of the recently-released State of the Dream Report 2012 joined us this week. This report concludes, among other things, that by 2042 the United States...
Can Black Youth Reject American Consumerism to Save Themselves?
Feb. 2 | “I’d open every cell in Attica—send ‘em to Africa.” -Nas “If I Ruled the World” Last week Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, spoke at Rankin Chapel about the need for Black students to reject American...
