Ball, Jared A.

Abstract Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. opens this episode by playing audio of police officers in Orlando, Florida aggressively arresting a six-year-old girl. He analyzes the contradictions that the interaction reveals. Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State University, joins the livestream on Facebook for a discussion about the power dynamics created by capitalism and colonialism that connect the situations Chairman Fred discusses on the show. Ball and Chairman Fred discuss how...