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Arkansas Judge Wendell Griffen on #Ferguson, Faith & Justice in the Age of Reinvented Empire

"Judge Wendell L. Griffen, an Arkansas lawyer, jurist, legal educator, religious leader, and public speaker. For more than three decades, Wendell Griffen has counseled business, military, government, non-profit organizations, and religious institutions about strategic planning, organizational teamwork, development, leadership, and morale, community and client relations, government relations and public policy, as well as legal affairs and litigation management." -- KineticsLive

Mark Anthony Neal on Duke vs. UNLV (from 'I Hate Christian Laettner)

Duke Professor Mark Anthony Neal on public perceptions that the UNLV teams of 1990-1991 were "thugs" who succeeded via sheer physicality and the Duke teams of that era "played the game right." 

Beverly Guy-Sheftall on the Long History of Black Feminism

Spelman College's Beverly Guy-Sheftall talks about the remarkably long history of Black Feminists and the links between the abolition and suffragist movements--via Makers

Joan Morgan: "Hip-Hop Made Me a Better Feminist"

Joan Morgan unpacks, with Melissa Harris-Perry, a feminism that "fucks with the grays" with regards to the allure of Hip-Hop.

Black Music's Institutional Memory: Q at 82

Quincy Jones: Black Music’s Institutional Memory
His initial “Q” is synonymous with every thing that Quincy Jones has done and his achievements as a musician, songwriter, producer, arranger, record label executive and entrepreneur are nearly unmatched by any of his peers. In terms of musical legacy, the only figure that Jones could be compared to is Duke Ellington, though even he couldn’t claim to have his hand in as many musical genres of music as Jones has.  Here Jones' work is represented in the title track to his 1970 recording Gula Matari.

Music & Visuals for Raheem DeVaughn's "Queen"

Music and Visuals for Raheem DeVaughn's "Queen" from his latest studio recording Love Sex Passion .

Rev. Otis Moss, III on the Criminalization of Blackness

Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago discusses #BlackLivesMatter and the Criminalization of Blackness.

America's Inability to Respect the Full Humanity of Black Life

The Remix host James Braxton Peterson: "When you look at these issues top to bottom, when we look from the office of the president to the halls of fraternity houses at the University of Oklahoma, the theme remains the same: We have an unquestionable inability to respect the full humanity of black life.

The New Net Neutrality Rules

New York Times Video primer on the recent FCC decision regarding Net Neutrality.