December 26, 2008
A few weeks ago, a friend in New Orleans, a Black gay man, emailed me about a very dustrubing scene. He was in the French Quarter, and ran into a young boy, no older than the age of 12, hustling …
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May 13, 2008
The hip-hop world had better get it together. Fame and celebrity will not protect your ass from the prison if you’re Black. Wesley Snipes just learned that lesson (OK so he’s not a hip-hop star, but he’s Black and he’s …
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Posted in activism, Culture, Media, Music, Navel-Gazing, News, Politics
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Tagged abolition, gangsta rap, hip-hop, papoose, prisons, racial uplift, rap music, remy ma, violence
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April 11, 2008
There are three really interesting actions taking place this weekend in NYC to bring attention to issues that are critical to poor & working class people, blacks and Latinos—particularly women, and queer/gender non-conforming people (and all the places where those …
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Posted in activism, Culture, Media, Music, News, Politics
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Tagged activism, audre lorde, bashings, bed-stuy, brooklyn, coalition to save harlem, harlem, homophobia, new york, real estate, subprime mortgage, violence
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