Tag: African-American people
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What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?
Wonderful and timelt video from the descendants of Frederick Douglass, an amazing man, reading his speech about the 4th of July. Very moving and I can see his passion and fire especially in Isadore. – via David Kerlick The bit I find amazing – and this speech has been heavily cut here – is that…
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Kojey Radical
Love this video from Kojey Radical and Mos Popular Human…why it isn’t ‘This Is America’ big I don’t know. Full of amazing imagery and I’ve heard the song ‘Water (If I Only Knew)’ a lot on 6Music, he’s been around for a minute, but it’s the rest of the video that does it for me.…
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This Is America – Call Me Maybe?
Amazing that some get their knickers in a twist about this, a free media and especially one that points out the shallow nature of escapism and pop culture (something Mr Glover was guilty of too) also should be one open to parody, humour and critique. No shibboleths. ‘Srs Message is Srs’ – sorry, it’s also…
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Kids, Lawns and Unhappy Campers
I must say this is a strange one – a NPR intern writes that she’s not owned many albums in her life but has 11,000 songs – fairly typical for that generation, as much as you might deplore it. Then Oscar the Grouch, sorry David Lowery comes along and his long toilet-roll rant about how…
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30 years of Hip Hop; 1 hour; 538 tunes
The ‘how many tunes can you cram into a mini?’ challenge continues – well this went out earlier in the year but I missed it – Jaguar Skills mixing 30 years of hiphop in one hour…it’s a total nostalgia fest for me, especially as my interest in bootlegs coincided with hiphop & RnB getting it’s…
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Bittersweet victory
Well that didn’t last long. Sorry to poop the party mood but Proposition 2 passed in Florida banning gay marriage and Proposition 8 also doing same in California isn’t looking good. And sadly this is one of the few issues President Obama is crap on. Next time can you elect a gay president? Or an…