Dr. Jared A. Ball, PhD

Jared A. Ball, Ph.D. is a professor of African American and Media Studies at the University of Maryland and Frostburg State University. He is a co-founder of CBC Monitor, co-host of The Blackademics on Pacifica's WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC and the founder/creator of FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show whose history and details can be found at voxunion.com. Ball is also the managing editor for the nation's first academic hip-hop journal which is part of the larger non-profit work of Words, Beats and Life, Inc.

Guest Commentary

Et tu Michael Eric Dyson? Fraternizing with the Devil

By Dr. Jared A. Ball, PhD Guest Commentator

I was loving the new Dave Chappelle’s Block Party movie until Wyclef Jean brought me quickly out of my emersion in hip-hop/comedic heaven with that old crippling false optimism offered to the young. He gave them more of that tired stuff about how you can’t “blame the White man,” “nothing is holding you back,” “work…

I was loving the new Dave Chappelle's Block Party movie until Wyclef Jean brought me quickly out of my emersion in hip-hop/comedic heaven with that old…

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