Posts tagged African American

No genre of music has experienced a more dramatic negative shift in values and content over the past 30 years than hip hop.

Instead of finding common ground to oppose bigotry…Social Justice Warriors have divided the civil rights movement more than white racists ever could.

The mission of The Wire is to educate the urban community about issues that affect their wellbeing and utilize all available resources to the best of our ability.

Walker filed a 13 count complaint alleging among other things that the Verity Gospel Division of Sony BMG plotted consistently to defame his name in lies and rip clients from his small Connecticut based law firm…

The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons, the EXACT same people, and using one to promote the other is (or “would be,” depending on your analysis) very lucrative.

Having used Hip Hop culture as a medium to empower youth for the last 15 years, I’ve seen first hand how mainstream rap impacts young impressionable minds.

Many of these artists, songs, and even movies provided a voice for a group of people whom the world could not see.

Hi, I’m an African American woman, and if I listened to what hip hop told me that I was, I’d be the equivalent of nothing.

This isn’t an attack on Hip Hop. There are countless new MC’s, despite being lesser known then their commercial counterparts, who are creative, insightful and keep Hip Hop alive

If the hardship didn’t involve the police, they probably didn’t struggle to get where they are, and it’s easy to believe stories about how they bought their place in.