Hiphop goes abroad

, originally uploaded by Asa Beal. One of my students is currently studying abroad, and has been taking pictures of graffiti that he’s seen while in Europe. I’m going to showcase some of his shots here.

Whats next?

This week I turned my manuscript into the publisher. Knock on wood what I have left now are the details. Line by line editing. Index generation. Fact checking. That type of thing. Which means that for the first time in several years I have to sit down and figure out...

Gil Scott Heron on the Moonwalk

Today is the 40th Anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s historic walk on the moon. Although I grew up wanting to be an astronaut, and am even now a card carrying Afrofuturist, I thought I’d commemorate the event by way of an old school Heron track. Unlike Heron...