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Yellowblack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life
Before Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa, Haki Madhubuti, publisher, writer, activist, and Black Arts Movement icon, used hip-hop to fight oppression, make sense of an unfair world, and find a way out of his Midwestern urban jungle. ... (read more)
The N-Word: Divided We Stand
The word 'Nigger' explodes from headphones, televisions, and lips, thick and thin, cradling and cutting, defining and denigrating young and multiethnic champions. It is the hip hop generation's favorite word and the subject of The N-Word, a new video documentary on the racial epithet turned term of endearment. ... (read more)
Hip Hop Jazz Head Headlines in Barbados
Theatrically lit from below in hues of apricot, green, and pink, the mahogany trees literally swayed in the Caribbean breeze, as if dancing to the high-energy beat of trumpeter Roy Hargrove's quintet at the opening concert of the 13th Barbados Jazz Festival Monday, January 10th, 2006. ... (read more)
From the Blogs
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Roses y Handcuffs
It gets quiet. Then he says, "you heard Ye's "Street Lights" yet?" In between those six words, lingers a heavier question then what's being breathed o (read more) -
The Nappy Diatribe
The last few days, watching the liberal blogosphere act like a bunch of whining malcontents as they clumsily hyperventilate over Obama picking Hillary (read more) -
Invite Only
THE SPOT: 74 Leonard Street between Broadway and Church, Nov 24, 2008. It's raining but we must press on because this is, in fact, is a VIBE event and (read more) -
zentronix d+h
We now have some idea of how hip-hop may have impacted the presidential election. According to stats from CIRCLE, those under the age of 45 delivered (read more)
Celeb of the Day
Will Smith
Government Name: Willard Christopher Smith Jr.
Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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