Monday, June 7th, 2004

GIFTIN’ (updated 6/8+6/9)

Here’s another preview of the book: it’s a piece on Rock Steady Crew and the arcs of urban style that was published in Dublin a minute back. If yall are reading this out in Ireland, send me a copy of the mag or some plane tickets. Whatever’s easier!

It’s a good preface, too, for this piece in the Voice I’ve got on The Third Unheard and The Rough Guide to African Rap.

Ah, back to writing about music in public. It’s a wonderful thing.

While you’re over at the Voice, here’s Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Hip-Hop Political Convention. Here’s another piece on the Convention by Eric Arnold in the East Bay Express. Finally, a great piece from Yvonne Bynoe of Urban Think Tank Institute who will be speaking at the Convention.

Right now, I’m stepping back to prep for the Convention. Be gone for the next week or so. Please come to the Intergenerational Dialogue on Thursday, I’ll be speaking on a panel on grassroots activism.

Peace yall and see you at the Convention.

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Monday, June 7th, 2004

Way sadder about Smarty Jones than about Reagan. Here’s 66 more reasons why.

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Friday, June 4th, 2004

O’Dub’s Pop Life takes on homophobia in the hip-hop blogosphere and gets brutalized by the “P.C.” police. Hey come on yall, ignorance–especially faked ignorance–is not hip-hop.

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Friday, June 4th, 2004

My Eddie Kendricks People… Hold On album started inexplicably skipping on “Someday We’ll Have A Better World”. The lyric: “There’ll be no war.”

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2004

Tom Hayden on the Honduran prison fire.

More links and things soon come. I’m just recovering from filing the final draft of the book, and getting ready for Newark.

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

What, me paranoid?

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Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Why did I get so much joy out of this article on Princeton student Katherine L. Milkman doing the numbers on the editors of the New Yorker fiction section? And why did the blandness of the editors’ comments on her research–which found male writers were chosen at 57-70%, and the story characters were overwhelmingly New York based–not surprise? Beats the hell out of me.

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Monday, May 31st, 2004

Adam Hochschild in a brilliant piece on the Haitian Revolution, whose parallels to Iraq are of course manifold.

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

THERE IS JUSTICE

After 1:43 minutes of fluff and commercials, the all-too-brief 1 and a half-minute reunion of the Three Divas, and the happy 10-second return of Camille Velasco, we got to the good part.

Fantasia deserved it. Why not go out on a limb and call her victory version of “I Believe” one of the most moving wartime musical performances in pop history? I mean, why not?

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Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

PROFITING FROM TORTURE

Meet the Titan Corporation, apparent supplier of Any Ghraib torturers.

One of the more interesting–and incredibly underreported–angles about the prison torture scandal has been the role of corporate mercenaries. Apparently, they’ve been given sweeping legal immunity by Bremer. War makes new forms of corporate welfare possible.

+++ Good reading:

Philip Sherburne on the legacy of “Don’Ask Don’t Tell” and Abu Ghraib.

Linda Burnham on gender, domination, and Abu Ghraib.

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