He is editor-at- large of the Journal of Hip-Hop and Global Culture from Words, Beats and Life [9] and hosts Jazz & Justice Mondays 1-3p EST on DC's WPFW [10] 89.3 FM Pacifica Radio. Ball is also the founder and creator of FreeMix Radio: The Original Mixtape Radio Show, a hip-hop mixtape committed to the practice of underground emancipatory journalism. Ball is also a board member of the International Association for Hip-Hop Education and a Communications Fellow with the Green Institute [11]. He is currently working on his first book Hip-Hop as Mass Media: The Mixtape and Emancipatory Journalism and can be found online at voxunion.com [12].