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BYP100’s Malcolm London & Luvvie Ajayi make The Root’s ’30 Viral Voices Under 30′
BYP100’s Malcolm London and Luvvie Ajayi are among The Root’s “30 Viral Voices Under 30.” The list celebrates “cool kids” of the Internet, such as journalists, humorists and activists under 30 who shape our daily conversations.
The Right to Be Angry: An Interview with the Founders of Black Poets Speak Out
By Mwende Katwiwa “I am a Black poet who will not stay silent while this nation murders Black people. I have a right to be angry” Poet and political activist Amiri Baraka once said, “the Black artist’s role is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it”. In a recent piece penned for The […]
Hide Ya Tweets, Hide Ya Hashtags, They Startin' Revolutions Out Here
This past week the world saw that in the battle of the people vs. the machine, the people prevailed. Acclaimed poet, Gil Scot Heron said the “Revolution Will Not Be Televised”; to a certain extent he was right. The revolution was digitized. Even though the seemingly insurmountable Mubarak machine was armed with a war chest […]
You Gon' Be All Right: On Maia Campbell and (More on) Tyler Perry
Note: I know this post is mad long. I’ll be more succinct in the future. I know you have better things to do. Last week, I didn’t take the opportunity to blog about Maia Campbell, something that I had fully intended to do. Instead, my only significant output was a blog about Tyler Perry taking […]