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The Most Visible Mulattoes: Drake and Obama Match Hip-Hop and Politics
Sep. 8 | Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience. Her point was that to dismiss that particularity with the narrow, anecdotal tale of one’s own success...
Sound of the City: A DC Flashback!
Aug. 21 | Take a trip short trip down memory lane to November 20, 2007 with one of DC’s finest blends of hip-hop, go-go and live performance with Sound of the City. This night was packed with many of the area’s best emcees, singers, DJs and musicians...
The Betrayal of Black Intellectuals
Jul. 19 | Professor Houston Baker joined us in the second hour of the show this week to discuss the ways in which leading Black intellectuals have “abandoned the ideals of the Civil Rights era.” We discussed this, Obama’s impact and more. ...
Hip-Hop’s Political Legacy w Rosa Clemente
Jun. 26 | Rosa Clemente gave the keynote address this evening at the national conference of the Hip-Hop Congress in Detroit, MI. Taking place adjacent to the U.S. Social Forum this gathering of what Clemente described as, “the only real national hip-hop...
Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’?
Jun. 14 | Dr. Greg Thomas‘ essay is at once a powerful critique of Hip-Hop Wars by prof. Tricia Rose and an equally powerful critique of where it is that popular academia is leading us. Thomas’ essay points to the ever-present and dangerous “Western...
Words.Beats.Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture: The Sex Issue
Jun. 3 | We were joined this week by contributors to the most recent edition of the Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture from Words.Beats.Life. Our discussion ranged from sexuality, misogyny and identity to the inappropriateness of focusing exclusively on the oppressed...
Hip-Hop as Mass Media: Part THREE Added!
May. 15 | We gathered this week to discuss Hip-Hop as Mass Media. The conversation took place May 10,2010 at the Social Action and Leadership School for Activists in Washington, DC. The discussion was wide-ranging but based upon a premise that hip-hop is a...
Roots, Resistance, and Revision: Towards a Contemporary Black Studies Agenda
Mar. 19 | In the 21st century the challenges facing Black Studies are tremendous. Is the field necessary? How is it to be applied? What guidelines or approaches are to be engaged or discarded? This week many gathered in New Orleans to address these and other...
Hip-Hop State of Mind!
Nov. 14 | Hip-Hop State of Mind is the latest media venture from Rosa Clemente in association with WBAI FM in New York. Adding several of the many missing elements in today’s media environment Clemente brings years of experience in media, activism, politics...
