Featured Emancipatory Mix! From DJ Plant Bass: Assata Shakur is a soldier for community, a Black Panther who waged revolution for a new system of values: justice for the Earth and all its inhabitants. She has a lot to teach us, take a listen and you’ll see! This mixtape is set to conscious hip-hop as…
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Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas “It’s bigger than religion Hip-Hop It’s bigger than my nigga Hip-Hop It’s bigger than the government [Erykah Badu, “The Healer / Hip-Hop” (2008)] And it’s much bigger than academic criticism, for sure. Sylvia…
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ASKIA! ABENA! Saw both at separate times while hawking T’ChallaA marketing MarvelThe Black Cat unifying the white movie theater and Black lecture hallAfrikan Panther Power brought to you by Mickey Mouse Askia has quilted his scribing life of red, black, green and white (house)“The Autobiography of Charles 67X”A Black NPR SoundPrint on rewindA map to…
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