Archiv vom 18. April 2013

[col. writ. 4/18/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The riveting documentary, “Central Park Five”, was an explosive example of what scholar Michelle Alexander has termed, “The New Jim Crow” (the title of her recent book), but, upon reflection, we find that it wasn’t so ‘new’, after all.
Five young Black and Latino boys, charged with raping a white woman, were sacrificed on the unholy altar of political expediency […]

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[col. writ. 4/18/13] © ’13 Mumia Abu-Jamal
 The incipient, yet growing protests at Philadelphia’s Temple University around the governance of its highly-prized African Studies Dept. is not about academic freedom, nor about departmental regulations and proper protocol, although it has been couched in such terms.
It’s about something far more fundamental.
It’s about power.
The power of institutions and the power of memory.
In many ways, Temple’s African Studies department […]

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