Book Review: Michael Eric Dyson And “Official And Safe Lines Of Thought”

What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had written the 1961 film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” instead of the play’s creator,…

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Hip-Hop’s Still Troubled Narrative: A Requiem for C. Delores Tucker

“Rap is not pop.  If you call it that then stop.” – Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, “Check The Rhime” “Let them know your logo, not a black thing, My background sing, my background sing for the crossover…” Erick Sermon, EPMD, “Crossover” Say what you want about her but when it comes to the issue of elite corporations…

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