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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Breaking Ad: When Hip-Hop First Went Corporate
By Kyle Coward First up is the Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man rapping over a minor-key piano sample atop a classic East Coast boom-bap beat, climaxing with a roar and proclaiming that he likes to wet his whistle with a 40-ounce. … Continue reading
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Tagged business, commercialization, hip-hop, marketing, money, music
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9 Things Many Americans Just Don’t Grasp (Compared to the Rest of the World)
By Alex Henderson To hear the far-right ideologues of Fox News and AM talk radio tell it, life in Europe is hell on Earth. Taxes are high, sexual promiscuity prevails, universal healthcare doesn’t work, and millions of people don’t even … Continue reading
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Tagged global, government, life, politics, society, United States, world
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NYC Has 118,000 Missing Black Men
By Christopher Robbins A new report shows that more than one of every six black men in the United States who should be between the ages of 25 and 54 have “disappeared” from free society, mostly due to incarceration or … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, black men, Ferguson, incarceration, missing persons, Missouri, New York City, race
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Michigan man denies racism after hanging nooses and Confederate flags outside properties
By David McCormack A businessman in suburban Detroit is under fire from unhappy neighbours after hanging a Confederate flag and nooses at his two properties in the area. Robert Tomanovich, who owns Robert’s Discount Tree Service in Livonia, Michigan, first … Continue reading
A Foreclosure Conveyor Belt The Continuing Depopulation of Detroit
By Laura Gottesdiener Unlike so many industrial innovations, the revolving door was not developed in Detroit. It took its first spin in Philadelphia in 1888, the brainchild of Theophilus Van Kannel, the soon-to-be founder of the Van Kannel Revolving Door … Continue reading
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Tagged American city, culture, depopulation, Detroit, economy, life, Michigan
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The Liberty to Feed the Poor
Conor Friedersdorf On the night she was ticketed, Chef Joan Cheever’s menu included fresh vegetable soup, lamb meatballs over wheat pasta, braised Southern greens, and a salad with roasted beets. She plans to appear in a San Antonio court to … Continue reading
A Teen Dies After Police Encounter on NYC Subway
By Aaron Miguel Cantu One evening almost two years ago, a young couple walked hand in hand to a subway station in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The girl, Hesha Sanchez, 17, wasn’t carrying her fare card, but she wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, Deion Fludd, New York Police Department, NYPD, race, United States
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Freddie Gray’s spinal injury suggests ‘forceful trauma,’ doctors say
By Scott Dance Spinal injuries such as those that led to Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody require “significant force” akin to the impact from a car accident and can fatally impair the body’s ability to regulate blood flow … Continue reading
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Tagged Baltimore, Baltimore Police, Freddie Gray, Freddie Gray murder, Maryland, police violence, race
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Toni Morrison: ‘I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman’
By Oliver Laughland The Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison has delivered a frank assessment of race relations in America, declaring that until racial disparities in the criminal justice system are resolved, the conversation about racism will never be over. Morrison, … Continue reading
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Tagged Black Lives Matter, police, race, racism, Toni Morrison
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