by admin | Mar 11, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop |
Hip-hop doesn’t exist without the break beat…the funkiest part of a track, sluiced away from it and used on its own. Nate Harrison created a 20 minute documentary on the “Amen Break.” Odds are that while you’ve never heard of it,...
by admin | Mar 10, 2007 | Culture |
I just got finished watching 300–the movie adaptation of the Frank Miller graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae. Trying to get a read on thoughts before I offer my own I find posts about technique, about the western civ angle, and about its relative lack...
by admin | Mar 9, 2007 | Black Leadership, Culture, Pop Culture |
Black people have always battled over their art. On the one hand you’ve got those who believe that Kenny G. or even Kirk Whalum shouldn’t hold a candle to Wynton Marsalis. And on the other you’ve got those who would claim with a straight face that...
by admin | Mar 7, 2007 | Afrofuturism, Crime and Punishment, Urban Politics |
So my piece on medieval urbanism got a hit from my friend Jesse Walker at Reason Magazine. And through that hit I got turned on to Bryan Finoki and Subtopia. I should’ve known there’d be a resource like this… Anyway, hitting a link at random I...
by admin | Mar 4, 2007 | Black Leadership |
Bruce Gordon, President of the NAACP resigned today, after only 19 months, citing problems with the board. I wrote a piece about the NAACP right after Mfume left his post. Here’s an important snippet: the NAACP is a highly centralized organization, with a...
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