Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Time To Knuckle Up :: On Van Jones’ Resignation

Painting by Robert Shetterly, from his Americans Who Tell The Truth series So let’s get into another media controversy, this time one that has serious national and generational implications, shall we? Last night, Bay Area organizer/activist and White House green jobs advisor Van Jones resigned from his post in the Obama Administration after a high-tech […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 12:20 pm | 25 Comments

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

A Poorly Annotated List Of Jeff’s Interviews

Here’s a list of interviews Jeff has done on Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and other stuff in roughly in reverse chronological order since 2005.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 9:56 pm | 0 Comments

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Self

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His first book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He edited the book, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. His new book, Who We Be: The Colorization of America, […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 3:55 pm | 0 Comments

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Hip Hop VP: A Q+A With Rosa Clemente

As cell phone users await Barack Obama’s text message informing them who his Vice President choice is, we present a Q+A with Green Party VP nominee Rosa Clemente. The 36-year old hip-hop activist took some time in Las Vegas at the National Hip-Hop Political Convention last month to talk candidly with us about her historic […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 10:03 am | 2 Comments

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Rap Sessions Hits The Road

Wanted to let you all know about Rap Sessions, a one-of-a-kind tour bringing some of the dopest headz around the country to spark dialogues about hip-hop activism and culture. It’s being organized by Bakari Kitwana and features our homies Oliver Wang, Adam Mansbach, Raquel Z. Rivera, and Ernie Paniccioli. They are touring right now and […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 9:23 am | 1 Comment

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

HKR/TWM/CSWS Report: Getting Home Before It’s Gone

+ Here is the second Gulf Coast report from the Hard Knock Radio/Third World Majority/Can’t Stop Won’t Stop team, up today at AlterNet. + For an updated list of grassroots news and organizing resources, including places to send your money other than the Red Cross, visit here: www.cantstopwontstop.com/blog/2005/09/gulf-coast-emergency-linklist-blogroll.cfm + Here is a podcast of Jeff’s […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 11:06 pm | 0 Comments

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Wave Of Mutilation: A Belated 2 Cents on Hot 97

Sorry for being quiet this whole week, especially with the tsunami fiasco going down. I’ve been doing set-up work for the book and a bunch of meetings around hip-hop activism. First I just want to send a shout out to our tireless and indefatigable man, Jay Smooth. He’s the one who first alerted all of […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 11:24 pm | 11 Comments

Tuesday, September 28th, 2004

A Big Week Before A Big Month

Big week for hip-hop activism as folks get down for the home stretch of this campaign…not just because of the debates on Thursday, but because the grassroots hip-hop activist movement is swinging into action across the country. First off, the championship and climax of Slam Bush goes off tomorrow, the day before the debates in […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 8:30 am | 0 Comments

Friday, February 20th, 2004

SHAMELESS, PLUG 1 If you’re nearby, come check out University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Hip-Hop Congress’ Hip-Hop Awareness Week from March 4-6. I’ll be on a panel with TJ Crawford, David Muhammad, Mario Africa, and Capital D on hip-hop activism on March 6. Other panels will feature Cashus D, Christie Z. Pabon, Marinieves Alba, and Kevin […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 5:06 pm | 0 Comments

Thursday, September 12th, 2002

+++++++++++ IN THIS ISSUE of the highly (and soon to be even more) irregular “CAN’T STOP” NEWSLETTER: +++++++++++ -> WRITING THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF NYC GRAF -> HIP-HOP FALL BOOKS -> HIP-HOP ACTIVISM EVENTS -> HEAVY ROTATES -> MISC. OTHER SH*T +++++++++++ ************** BLAZING BACK: THE RETURN OF NEW YORK CITY GRAFFITI ************** This […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 10:12 am | 0 Comments

« Previous Page

Feed Me!

Revolutions

DJ Nu-Mark :: Take Me With You
DJ Nu-Mark remixes the diaspora…party ensues!
El General + Various Artists :: Mish B3eed : Khalas Mixtape V. 1
The crew at Enough Gaddafi bring the most important mixtape of 2011–the street songs that launched the Tunisian & Egyptian Revolutions…
J. Period + Black Thought + John Legend :: Wake Up! Radio mixtape
Remixing the classic LP w/towering contributions from Rakim, Q-Tip + Mayda Del Valle
Lyrics Born :: As U Were
Bright production + winning rhymes in LB’s most accessible set ever
Model Minority :: The Model Minority Report
The SoCal Asian American rap scene that produced FM keeps surprising…
Mogwai :: Hardcore Won't Die But You Will
Dare we call it majestic?
Taura Love Presents :: Picki People Volume One
From LA via Paris with T-Love, the global post-Dilla generation goes for theirs…

Word

Cormac McCarthy :: Blood Meridian
Read this now before Hollywood f*#ks it up.
Dave Tompkins :: How To Wreck A Nice Beach
Book of the decade, nuff said.
Joe Flood :: The Fires
The definitive account of why the Bronx burned
Mark Fischer :: Capitalist Realism
K-Punk’s philosophical manifesto reads like his blog, snappy and compelling. Just replace pop music with post-post-Marxism. Pair with Josh Clover’s 1989 for the full hundred.
Nell Irvin Painter :: The History of White People
Well worth a Glenn Beck rant…and everyone’s scholarly attention
Robin D.G. Kelley :: Thelonious Monk : The Life And Times Of An American Original
Monk as he was meant to be written
Tim Wise :: Colorblind
Wise’s call for a color-conscious agenda in an era of “post-racial” politics is timely
Victor Lavalle :: Big Machine
Victor Lavalle does it again!

Fiyahlinks

++ Total Chaos
The acclaimed anthology on the hip-hop arts movement
ARC
Asian Law Caucus | Arc of 72
AWOL Inc Savannah
B+ | Coleman
Boggs Center
Center For Media Justice
Center For Third World Organzing
Chinese For Affirmative Action
Color of Change
ColorLines
Dan Charnas
Danyel Smith
Dave Zirin
Davey D
Disgrasian
DJ Shadow
Elizabeth Mendez Berry
Ferentz Lafargue
Giant Robot
Hip-Hop Theater Festival
Hua Hsu
Humanity Critic
Hyphen Magazine
Jalylah Burrell
Jay Smooth
Joe Schloss
Julianne Shepherd
League of Young Voters
Lyrics Born
Mark Anthony Neal
Nate Chinen
Nelson George
Okay Player
Oliver Wang + Junichi Semitsu :: Poplicks
Pop + Politics
Presente
Quannum
Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Rivera
Rob Kenner
Sasha Frere-Jones
The Assimilated Negro
Theme Magazine
Toure
Upper Playground
Wayne Marshall
Wiretap Magazine
Wooster Collective
Youth Speaks

@zentronix

No public Twitter messages.