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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...
We Are NOT Our Own Worst Enemy
Jan. 26 | “And I don’t give a f#@k what Bill Cosby said ’cause the problem gon’ exist when Bill Cosby’s dead And I don’t think the revelation from the supreme beings residing or hiding out in Bill Cosby’s head” -Jay Electronica...
Christmas and the Negro in the Atlantic World
Dec. 26 | (Republished.) Christmas for Africans in the Atlantic world has always been about controlling their minds, energy and whereabouts because they were (and some would argue they still are) property. Instead of being “staid, sober, thinking and industrious”...
A Witness for Troy Davis: a Legalized Lynching
Dec. 12 | “Stand Up! Testify! We Won’t Let Troy Davis Die!” The militant chant of hundreds of mainly black, but also many white, protesters marching on the state capitol building to a somber NAACP-Amnesty-International prayer vigil in downtown Atlanta, Georgia,...
Occupying Wall Street…Planning Change
Oct. 10 | …for many of the Occupy Wall Street protestors, it seems like venting is enough. Collective strategizing for long-term change may not be a part of the plan. by Laura Turner-Essel Liberation psychologist Bruce Levine argues in Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting...
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...
The Attica Prison Uprising at 40
Sep. 4 | “We are MEN! We are not beasts and do not intend to be beaten or driven as such. The entire prison populace has set forth to change forever the ruthless brutalization and disregard for the lives of the prisoners here and throughout the United States....
