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I spoke with Dr.
Jared Ball, again, today to pick up on our conversation from last
week under a very different circumstance - that being we have a new president
elect, the first African American President to be. The nature of our conversation
revolved around the founding principles and realities of this democracy and
what we may expect to see from President Obama based on historical precedence
as well as campaign rhetoric, campaign promises, and the likely roundup of cabinet
choices on the table thus far. Dr. Ball hosts Jazz and Justice on Pacifica Radio
out of DC - archived at VoxUnion.
He is an assistant professor of communications studies at Morgan State
University in Baltimore, MD., an independent journalist, the Editor-at-Large
of the Words,
Beats and Life Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture and founder of
FreeMix Radio: The
Original Mixtape Radio
Show – a freely distributed monthly hip-hop mixtape
dedicated to the practice of emancipatory journalism. Dr. Ball
is navy veteran who served during Desert Shield/Desert Storm, a graduate of Frostburg
State University with a degree in history, a graduate of the Africana Studies
and Research Center at Cornell University with a masters degree in Africana Studies
and a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park where he earned a
doctorate in journalism and media studies. Dr. Ball is also involved with the
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
and is a founder of the Congressional
Black Caucus.
I spoke, again, with Dr. Walter Brasch about eight years of Bush Administration
brutality and criminality and the undermining of the the US Constitution and
the Bill of Rights. We spoke of what Bush has done and undone during his two
terms in office, and what we might be expecting from an Obama Administration.
Dr. Brasch is an award-winning former newspaper reporter
and editor and is a university professor of journalism and mass communications,
and author of a biweekly syndicated
newspaper column. He is also the author of dozens of magazine articles,
several multimedia productions, and has worked in the film industry and as a
copy writer and political consultant. He is the author 17
books, most of them focusing upon the fusion of historical and
contemporary social issues, including America's
Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil
Rights and Unacceptable:
The Federal Response To Hurricane Katrina. Dr.
Brasch has received more than 100 regional and national media awards from the
National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Society of Professional Journalists,
National Federation of Press Women, Pennsylvania Press Club, Pennsylvania Women's
Press Association, Pennwriters, International Association of Business Communicators,
Pacific Coast Press Club, and Press Club of Southern California. He is president
of the Pennsylvania Press Club, and was president of the Keystone State professional
chapter and deputy regional director of the Society of Professional Journalists,
from which he received the Director's Award and the National Freedom of Information
Award.
I was joined in the studio by special guest co-host Shana Panchak - a bright
and spirited individual whom I figured would ad her radical and critical opinions
making for a very colorful conversation. I am expecting that she will be joining
me again in the upcoming weeks.
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