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 [...]
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Have you ever been on a “diet” and found yourself eating junk food you’d never bought before? Do you claim to be broke but can’t put down the credit card? Do you decry racism that personally touches you but say nothing about the sexism you personally engage in? Is it normal for you to say [...] 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 [...] Well things are winding down and headed to the wire for the Presidential election in the US. I wrote a post a few days ago where I mentioned the lack of discussion about poor people by the major party candidates lately. Of course the corporate media in conjunction with the Republican party are trying to [...] So there was some foreign money involved in the $85B WELFARE CHECK issued to AIG, but the brunt of it is still being passed onto you, me and the future grandchildren we may never have. Who can afford to have kids? I’m not talking about draping them in designer duds for tots either. I’m talking [...] |
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