... the other Black experience
What do you guys think of writer Touré's latest piece for the Washington Post about the war on drugs and hip-hop?
Excerpts: "In the early 1980s, most of the socially conscious hiphop records mentioned drugs as one of the many problems affecting black Americans, not the central one. When they did touch on drugs, they were almost always depicted negatively; doing drugs was a character failing, and the songs usually portrayed the speaker as a bystander trapped in a ghetto,…
Added by The Establishment on July 18, 2012 at 6:30am — 7 Comments
In this climate of rampant (or blatant) racism, many feel powerless and angry, not sure what they can do to help change the world. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Angela Davis... We're often under the impression that to make a difference, you need to be a charismatic super-human that very few can measure up to. Activist and professor Angela Davis herself couldn't disagree more. She… Continue
Added by The Establishment on May 2, 2011 at 3:00pm — 6 Comments
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