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A Conversation w/ Veteran Activist & Political Theorist Omali Yeshitela
In, Amilcar Cabral and the Theory of the National Liberation Struggle, Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja writes that: “Amilcar Cabral’s contribution to unde…
6 years, 4 months ago
Kwame Ture as Existential Radical
To unpack the complexities of Africana resistance, particularly its most “radical” elements—whether expressed through collective or/and individual ac…
6 years, 5 months ago
Maurice Bishop Speaks
On October 12, 1983, Maurice Bishop, prime minster of Grenada and one of the founding leaders of the New Jewel Movement, was placed under house arres…
6 years, 5 months ago
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: Memory, Translation & Recovery
The ghosts of Hegel, Hume, Locke, and other so-called enlightenment thinkers, are not ghosts at all. The limiting racialized reasoning; the logics o…
6 years, 6 months ago
Reflections on the Legacy and Potentialities of C.L.R. James
Writing in Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, CLR James argues that: “the cruelties of property and privilege are …
6 years, 7 months ago
The Long Movement for Freedom in Haiti
In a November 1797 Letter to the French Directory, Toussaint L’Ouverture writes a warning to the French and its allies in Haiti of any attempts to (r…
6 years, 7 months ago
The Praxis of John Coltrane through Alice Coltrane
To understand the music of John Coltrane you must understand the long genealogy of the genre of African Diasporic cultural expression—called Black (o…
6 years, 8 months ago
Critically Reading Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Robin D.G. Kelley argues that Cedric Robinson’s book is “a critique of Western Marxism and its failure to understand the conditions and movements of …
6 years, 8 months ago
Of 1619 w/ Josh Myers
Over the past few weeks there has been a low-humming buzz on dominant media platforms around the release of New York Times Magazine 1619 Project. Th…
6 years, 9 months ago
African Rhythms: A Workshop on Cultural Continuity & the Future of Jazz
Descriptors such as jungle music, negro music, jazz...African American Classical Music. Black Classical Music. Spirit Music...and African Rhythms...h…
6 years, 9 months ago