STATE OF AFFAIRS with STAN SMITH 10.1

Guest this week: Dr. Basil Wilson Dr Wilson Received Ph.D. Political Science, City Graduate Center, City University of New York  and he has been writing on the culture and development of Jamaican music as it relates to the diaspora for more than four decades. Currently - Dean of the Criminal Justice Graduate Program, Monroe College, Bronx, New York 2009 to present.   Served as Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, 1990-2006 Chairman Dept. of African American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-  1981-1984 Professor of Political Science, Dept. of African American Studies- John Jay College of Criminal Justice 1974-1990                          Write a weekly columnist for The New York Carib News, from 1998 to the present Received Everybody’s Magazine Award, for his frequently columns and commentary as writer on cultural issues affecting the diaspora for Everybody’s Magazine,. Taught African-American History,•       Black Social and Intellectual Thought,•         Race, Culture and Globalization. •         “The Making and Unmaking of a Culture of Violence in Jamaica” Awards: Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Everybody’s Magazine Award