- April 6 · 12:30pm - April 7 · 8:30pm EDT
Scholars and activists discuss The Black Scholar journal , including issues of radicalism, gender, internationalism, media.
Roundtables:
JoNina Abron-Ervin, Abdul Alkalimat, Sam Anderson, Herb Boyd, Melba Boyd, Horace Campbell, Bill Fletcher, Jr. ,Jimmy Garrett, Gerald Lenoir, Jamala Rogers, Akinyele Umoja, Stan West
Paper presenters and topics:
- Ray Black, Black Masculinity
- Ori Burton, Black Radicalism/Archival Praxis
- Mohamed Elnaiem, National liberation and decolonization
- Julian Glover, Theories of Black genders and sexualities
- Nicholas Grant, Anti-apartheid solidarity
- Christopher J. Lee, Black engagement with Vietnam/Asia
- Fred Moten, TBS Interviews and the poetics of the interview form
- Joe Parrott, Global Third World/Tricontinental issues
- Olufemi Taiwo, The Erasure of African knowledge in global discourse
- Armond Towns, Media in Black studies, TBS, and contemporary society
- Daniel Widener, Internal colonialism, Cuba, TBS as a Black and Thirdworld space
- Komozi Woodard, Malcolm X and Revolutionary Women: 21 Sisters in the Making of Black Liberation
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