An Open Letter from Original Black Panther Party Members to Black (Hip-Hop) Artists Who Have an Interest in Our Community (T.I., KILLER MIKE, CARDI B, KANYE WEST, BEYONCE’, JAY-Z, P-DIDDY, LUDACRIS, 50-CENT, and others)
Greetings and Solidarity to each of you. In recognition of your individual voice, influence, and cultural following among current generations of Black people/Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent, we salute you. While we only know you from the public domain, we know that many of you come from backgrounds where you faced poverty,…
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This is black excellence The Space Program Album: Curriculum of the Mind
Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson and The Space Program Collective: A review by Tryon P. Woods This is black excellence. Never mind Jay-Z and Kanye. Forget hero-worship, commodity fetish, corporate-compromise, and the consumption of everyday black lives for individual wealth and national aggrandizement. Black excellence is independent and collective; it is process-oriented and in it for…
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