The Reader is the online archive of Jeff’s writings on culture, politics, music, and more. It includes excerpts and outtakes from Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and interviews with Jeff. Articles are being added regularly, so come back often.

WHO WE BE PREVIEW : Post-Racial Or Post-Hope? :: Race In The Obama Era

This piece was commissioned by Folha De São Paulo‘s Sunday magazine, Ilustríssima at the midpoint of Obama’s first term. It meant to capture the racial moment in the U.S. for Brazilian audiences, but it also reveals some of the themes and topics of Who We Be: The Colorization of America, due out on St. Martin’s Press in late 2011.

Saturday Nite Fresh : An Interview With Uncle Jamm’s Army

In tribute to the late great Rodger “Uncle Jamm” Clayton, here are large excerpts from a 1994 interview conducted by me and Mike Nardone, featuring Iceberg and Egyptian Lover. Plus, you can download the original Rap Pages article…

The Creativity Stimulus

Every moment of major social change requires a collective leap of imagination. Political transformation must be accompanied not just by spontaneous and organized expressions of unrest and risk, but by an explosion of mass creativity…