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		<title>Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watching the Throne or the Thrown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck D was right to refer to the new album from Jay-Z and Kanye West as watch the &#8220;T-H-R-O-W-N,&#8221; as is in the power and and control over Black cultural expression has been thrown away.  That was one of many important points raised in this recent article about Watch the Throne and was also the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Marley and Political Prisoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s edition* of The Super Funky Soul Power Hour featured a tribute to Bob Marley on the 31st anniversary of his death and  part two of our  discussion with Dominque Stevenson about Marshal &#8220;Eddie&#8221; Conway and political imprisonment. Download audio file (051112BobMarley.mp3) Download the show! *Originally aired May 11, 2012]]></description>
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		<title>Obama &amp; Blacks; Gay or Straight &#8211; No Connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sister Annonymous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call me ungrateful, but as a black gay person there is nothing in President Obama's recent admission that's worthy of celebration - at least not to me. His admission comes just a little too late to have any progressive influence among the black North Carolinians who worship him as the first black President.]]></description>
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		<title>Redemption of the White Liberal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Herbert Dyer, Jr.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And, yes, white liberals must undertake permanent, sweeping, demonstrative and affirmative actions to repair the damage white supremacy has done to all “nonwhite” people, but especially Black and African people.  This will require discussions with Black people – discussion not negotiation.]]></description>
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		<title>The (Un)Importance of Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shauntrice Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to make a clear distinction between the existence of organizations and the need for people to organize. My experience lends credibility to the argument that organizing is key; particularly in dealing with an un-unified and jaded youth population. That same experience, however, has also shown me the pitfalls of joining an organization. Change is going to happen regardless of what we do.]]></description>
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		<title>A Super Funky Roundtable Discussion of Political Prisoners and Mass Incarceration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Thomas, Dominque Stevenson and Marshall &#8220;Eddie&#8221; Conway all joined this week&#8217;s show to discuss Thomas&#8217; essay, &#8220;Why Some Like the New Jim Crow&#8221; and issues related to mass incarceration, political prisoners and freedom struggles.  Thomas&#8217; important criticism of Michelle Alexander was discussed this week in the even more important context of those liberation struggles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defending Black Studies / Education For Liberation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 in this country the inane ramblings printed in the Chronicle of Higher Education (see below) which indeed proves its opposite but, of course, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Media and Social Activism at the Manning Marable Memorial Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.voxunion.com/new-media-and-social-activism-at-the-manning-marable-memorial-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.voxunion.com/new-media-and-social-activism-at-the-manning-marable-memorial-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 20:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 the impact of media on political organization and a very important personal reflection on Malcolm X by one who knew and worked with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A S.A.M.I. TAKEOVER! Mass Incarceration Radio!</title>
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		<comments>http://www.voxunion.com/a-s-a-m-i-takeover-mass-incarceration-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared A. Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI) took over the Super Funky Soul Power Hour this week* in what became a special edition episode on the issue of mass Black incarceration! Download audio file (042012SAMI.mp3) Download the show! * Originally aired April 20, 2012]]></description>
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		<title>Hating Black People Is Still the Favorite American Past Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W. Yusef Doucet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hating Black people in the United States is more American than apple pie, a legacy of the Dutch in North America. Perhaps organizers of the million hoodies marches would do well to read or re-read Ida B. Wells-Barnett. She wrote to expose the political and economic interests behind lynch-law in the U.S. Wells-Barnett pointed out the economic boon that came to white businessmen as a result of the terror eliminating Black competition. ]]></description>
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