by admin | Oct 10, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
One of my favorite students is in France right now and I asked her to send me some French hip-hop. This is what she dropped on me. I wonder if the man in the video is a stand-in for Sarkozy (or a supporter at any rate)? [kml_flashembed...
by admin | Oct 9, 2007 | Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
More from Mafia K1 Fry from the album La Cerise Sur Le Ghetto (“The Fruit of the Ghetto”). [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/v4U7eie-Zsg” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent”...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
This is Mafia K1 Fry. The track is called “Pour Ceux” (“For Those”). The group reminds me a lot of the Wu. Even if you can’t understand French (I can translate on the written page ok, but I can’t translate from hearing it) you...
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,...
by admin | Jul 8, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Public Health, Public Policy, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Just picked up this story about a minute ago. The “broken windows” strategy that Giuliani used in New York City to successfully harass and intimidate (largely black and Latino) working class New Yorkers had already been persuasively debunked. Even James Q....
by admin | Jul 1, 2007 | Black Leadership, Education, things that make you go hmm, Urban Politics |
Lani Guinier wrote an article in the Journal of American History on Brown vs. Board. Up until this point the best critique I’d read about the NAACP strategy had been Harold Cruse’s Plural But Equal. But what Guinier’s article brings to light is the...
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