Rhymes and Reasons interviews female emcee Rapsody about the Hip Hop songs that changed her life: MC Lyte’s “Poor Georgie, ” The Fugees’ “Ready or Not,” and Method Man’s and Mary J. Blige’s “All I Need.” A great interview. Check it out at BlackYouthProject.com!
On this episode of When Keeping it Post-Racial Goes (Terribly, Terribly) Wrong: LL Cool J and country singer Brad Paisley have made a song. It’s called “Accidental Racist,” and it is horrific. And mystifying. And accidentally racist.
“Fruitvale,” the buzz-about film chronicling the final days of police shooting victim Oscar Grant, will hit theaters on July 26th, three months earlier than expected, after garnering rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.
The identity of a 4 year-old girl abandoned on a stranger’s doorstep has been solved, due in large part to social media. Over 2 million people re-posted photos of the little girl, eventually leading to a tip that identified her as Zoe Brown.
Instead of letting all of my righteous indignation flood the internet, I email back and forth with a couple of homies about stuff we see here. We sometimes conclude that it must be our brains that our screwed up, because clearly everyone else seems okay with all of this mess. A recent string of conversations […]
This past week I was asked by a group of middle school students “what do you believe in”? Even though the question was light hearted and blameless, I think as a black male twenty-two year old constantly challenged by the power and privilege dynamics of this society, it is important to rigorously interrogate my own […]
Tyler Perry’s latest film has been getting fairly horrific reviews, not just for the sub-par film making and acting, but also for the incredibly problematic and offensive messages it implicitly sends.
A group of Rochelle, Georgia students are attempting to organize the first integrated prom at their school. And they’re being met with resistance; signs promoting the idea have been torn down, and the school is refusing to fund the event.
45 years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. Join us in honoring the legacy of this extraordinary man.
President Obama has announced that he’ll be returning 5 percent of his salary in solidarity with furloughed federal workers. Are you heartened by Pres. Obama’s efforts, or is this an empty gesture? Have you been impacted by the government spending cuts?
Fear can cause you to question your worth and true purpose in life. When you are hit with enough obstacles you can be overtaken by fear, until you feel that there is no way out. No way to pursue your dreams, be that change or answer the call when you are needed.
Today would have been the legendary Marvin Gaye’s 74th birthday.Marvin Gaye is responsible for some of the most important music of the 20th century; art that combined both technical daring and inventiveness, with an intoxicating conceptual mixture of sensuality, spirituality, and politics.
