by admin | Oct 3, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
Picked this up through Open Culture: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3zJqihkLcGc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Needless to say…this is hip-hop.
by admin | Jul 27, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Culture, Pop Culture |
One of the issues that I’m currently trying to work my way through deals with the politics of black cultural production. More specifically what happens to genres like rap, techno, house, as they move across space and time? To an extent this relates to issues of...
by admin | Jul 24, 2007 | Cash Rules Everything Around Me, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This video below is extra hot. Thanks to All Tayo for the link. On an unrelated note, check out The Shawn Mason Spence show where the topic of the day is black women in the entertainment industry. We know of the men, but where are the deal-making, business-moving...
by admin | Jul 23, 2007 | Education, Pop Culture, The Mass Media
Tonight my wife will be hosting a show on education: Education is being talked about across the nation, but who’s doing anything about failing school, bureaucratic mismanagement, and outdated curricula and materials? Our guests, Tonya Allen of the Skillman...
by admin | Jul 20, 2007 | Campaigns and Elections, Democracy, NPR, Pop Culture, The Mass Media |
This week’s barbershop segment came out today. On the docket? We talked about immigration policy, about Michael Vick’s legal troubles, and we talked about John Edwards’ campaign and his anti-poverty platform. Makes for interesting...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Culture, Pop Culture, things that make you go hmm |
I’ve been reading comics now for thirty years. Two of the first websites I read everyday are Comic Book Resources and Newsarama. Rich Johnston, one of their columnists has been writing a gossip column (“Lying in the Gutters”) of sorts,...
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