Jared A. Ball (born September 28, 1971) is an American academic and political activist. He is a professor of

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and Africana / Black Studies at

Morgan State University Morgan State University (Morgan State or MSU) is a Public university, public historically black colleges and universities, historically black research university in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. It is the largest of Maryland's historically bla ...

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, United States. Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!” and a co-founder of Black Power Media. In the 2008 presidential election, Ball sought the nomination of the

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before eventually dropping out and endorsing Congresswoman

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Education and career

Ball is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park, the

Cornell Africana Studies and Research Center The Africana Studies and Research Center (ASRC) at Cornell University is an academic unit devoted to the study of the global migrations and reconstruction of African peoples, as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the pe ...

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and

Frostburg State University Frostburg State University (FSU) is a public university in Frostburg, Maryland. The university is the only four-year institution of the University System of Maryland west of the Baltimore-Washington passageway in the state's Appalachian highlan ...

. Ball is the author of ''The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 2nd Ed. 2023), ''I Mix What I Like! A Mixtape Manifesto'' and co-editor of '' A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X'', a critique of Manning Marable's '' Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention''."Attempted ivory tower assassination of Malcolm X: an interview with Jared Ball, editor of 'A Lie of Re-Invention'" San Francisco Bayview: National Black Newspaper (2012): http://sfbayview.com/2012/attempted-ivory-tower-assassination-of-malcolm-x-an-interview-wit-jared-ball-editor-of-a-lie-of-re-invention/ He has also been known for his work on

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, Black Agenda Report and iMiXWHATiLiKE.ORG.

References

External links

Ball's faculty page
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