Monday, August 18th, 2008

Scenes From An Uprising? Part 1

On Saturday at the Rock The Bells festival in the Bay Area, 20,000 middle fingers were raised against Fox News. “They are the past. We are the future,” Nas shouted from center stage, before dropping the beat from “Black President”. “We can change the world.” Hip-hop gatherings seem lately to have been taking on the […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 11:21 am | 0 Comments

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Luda Could Use Some Education

The hum on the opening day at the National Hip-Hop Political Convention was that Ludacris had played himself. Badly. Green Party vice presidential candidate Rosa Clemente put it best, “I have no love for Hillary’s politics and what it’s done to our folks, but I could feel her going through all the stuff she’s had […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 7:53 am | 4 Comments

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

National Hip-Hop Political Convention Opens In 2 Weeks

Like most of the others, this one’s xposted to Vibe.com… Since the first National Hip-Hop Political Convention was held in Newark New Jersey in the summer of 2004, young voters have come to the polls in big turnouts, driven by a landmark surge of young voters of color. This surprised many long-time political observers, but […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 2:29 pm | 1 Comment

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Why The Papers Are Getting The Race Polls Wrong

So many race polls, so little insight. Today’s sober NY Times poll on the presidential election and race relations comes to the very same conclusions that the wacky Washington Post poll—which turned into a game of “White People: So You Think You’re Not Racist?”—found last month: Blacks really love Obama and whites kinda like McCain. […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 9:16 am | 3 Comments

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Actually Don’t Read My Posts

Just read Humanity Critic. Man! I should just quit.

posted by Jeff Chang @ 2:55 pm | 1 Comment

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Idle Hands :: Why The Candidates Must Focus On America’s Youth

This summer could be the worst ever for teens looking for work, according to experts. Less than one in three youths may find summer jobs. In recent years, the youth jobless rate has soared to record highs. In cities like Chicago, three in four teens, including seven in eight Black teens, did not work in […]

posted by Jeff Chang @ 7:01 am | 1 Comment

« 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.