Tag: barack obama
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Hip-Hop and the Green Party: Jared Ball and Rosa Clemente Were Right by Shamako Noble
“In 1956, I shall not go to the polls. I have not registered. I believe that democracy has so far disappeared in…
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Russell Simmons Still Ain’t Hip-Hop and He Ain’t No Occupier Either!
The experience of the last five weeks shows that Wall Street “occupiers’ fear of liberal co-optation is fully justified.” Media mogul and…
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The Politics of Multiracialism in an Anti-Black World
Dr. Jared Sexton joined us this week to discuss to his work in Amalgamation Schemes and the politics of multiracial identification in an…
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Black August and Crises of Hip-Hop as Euphemism
Again, as we roll into the month of August we’d like to begin our tribute of Black August a bit early… If…
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Kola Boof, Senfo Tonkam and The Politics of Pan-Africanism
Known mostly as a forced concubine of Osama bin-Laden Kola Boof is a poet and author who joined us this morning…
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The Evangelists of Social Media
The “evangelists of social media,” according to Malcolm Gladwell, want us to believe that the revolution we all want has simply been awaiting…
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“The Most Visible Mulattoes”: Drake and Obama Match Hip-Hop and Politics
Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience. Her point was that…