There has always been a fundamental struggle for the "soul" of hip hop
culture, represented by the deep tension between politically-conscious and
"positivity" rap artists versus the powerful and reactionary impulses toward
misogyny,...
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03 February 2002
The politics of hip hop culture took an important step forward recently with
the Russell Simmons-founded Hip Hop Summit Action Network's hosting of the
historic West Coast Hip-Hop Summit. Organized by Summit President Minister
Benjamin...
30 January 2002
Throwing the book at people is nothing new, but in our post 9/11
world, the screws are tightening. Take San Francisco, whose district
attorney, Terence "Kayo" Hallinan, has the reputation of being an unusually
progressive...
23 January 2002
Everywhere we look, it's Enron, in the biggest tumult over
corporate criminality since the looting of the S&Ls in the 1980s. Enron will
be on the menu for months, if not years. Congress launches into at least
eight separate...
20 January 2002
The disjuncture these days between reality and what one reads in
the press here is pretty much absolute. The other day I opened up the San
Francisco Chronicle and found a piece hailing what the writer described as
something most...
18 January 2002
Delegates from all parts of the U.S. gathered in Washington DC June 15-18 to attend the Education for Peace in Iraq Center’s (EPIC) Iraq Forum and to lobby members of congress to lift economic sanctions and oppose prominent hardliners...
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