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For Those Women Wondering How They’ll Divest & Where They’ll Go

It’s nice to see the media attention being given to Dr. Roxanne Shante this week. To bring you up to speed she was one of the earliest female MCs in hip-hop. She recorded Roxanne’s Revenge which was a reply to UTFO’s song Roxanne Roxanne. For a more recent comparison think of TLC’s recording of No [...]

John Merrow Series on Urban Schools

How I despise the term urban when it is used as code for Black. It’s lazily meant to be all-encompassing but it negates the individual’s experience and doesn’t differentiate amongst social class. So we have a marketing term to sell cars but it’s also supposed to describe the lifestyle of people who are categorized as [...]