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blog, video January 19, 2012

VIDEO: Santigold — “Big Mouth”

Calling out all trash talkers!

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Culture & Ideas January 16, 2012

Dr. King On Power, Love and Justice

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice.

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Culture & Ideas January 16, 2012

The Importance of Hope

It’s what makes us push for a better future.

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Culture & Ideas, Good Reads: Politics January 16, 2012

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

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blog, Film/TV January 15, 2012

Black Films At Sundance 2012

Meet five filmmakers who’ll be showing work in this year’s Sundance Film Festival

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business, Culture & Ideas January 14, 2012

Help Stop SOPA and PIPA

Two dangerous pieces of legislation are making their way through Congress. Here’s what you need to know.

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Culture & Ideas January 12, 2012

Cool Project: The Hip-Hop Word Count

Visualizing hip hop’s cultural and linguistic migration

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blog, Books, video January 12, 2012

VIDEO: Baratunde Thurston — “How To Be Black” (trailer)

Don’t be a racist: Buy this book.

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blog, News, tour dates January 10, 2012

NEWS: Carolina Chocolate Drops new album + tour dates

Flemons, Giddens and Jenkins return to keep traditional African-American string band music alive and well

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blog, video January 9, 2012

VIDEO: Alice Smith — “Fool For You” (Cee-Lo Green cover)

Alice Smith’s voice. Yeah, pure awesome.

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Culture & Ideas August 24, 2012

Fear Of A Black President

Some excerpts from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s tour de force on Obama, race and the limits of integration.

Culture & Ideas August 9, 2012

GOOD READ: Hate Crimes Always Have A Logic: On The Oak Creek Gurudwara Shootings

A perspective on the Oak Creek, WI shootings from a member of the Sikh community

Music June 6, 2012

GOOD READ: Erykah Badu to Wayne Coyne: “Kiss my glittery ass!”

In case you missed it, Ms. Badu’s choice words to Mr. Coyne

Music May 31, 2012

GOOD READ: Jeff Chang On The Legacy of Chuck Brown

A worthwhile read on the go-go legend

Culture & Ideas March 19, 2012

GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

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