‘Culture’ Archives
Native American Youth to Diane Sawyer: We’re Not Poverty Porn via Colorlines
Last month ABC’s 20/20 aired a special they called “Children of the Plains,” that portrayed the Lakota Indian reservation as a place that only dealt with crime, unemployment, alcoholism, overcrowded trailers and crumbling schools. On Monday, young Native American [Read More]
Melvin Van Peebles Supports The Occupy Wall Street Movement With His 1971 Song From “Watermelon Man”
via Shadow and Act Famed director Melvin Van Peebles, who knows his share of controversy, decided to lend his support to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. His 1971 song “Love That’s America,” from his first Hollywood film Watermelon Man, has been used with [Read More]
NYC – Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Sponsored Rally – Charles Barron
Speech from the rally prior to the march to the African burial grounds …and Flickr set [Read More]
Sylvia Robinson, Who Helped Make ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ Has Died : The Record : NPR
A little more than 20 years later she co-founded Sugar Hill Records and came up with the idea for the first commercially-successful hip-hop release, 1979′s “Rapper’s Delight,” by The Sugarhill Gang. Her label also signed Grandmaster Flash and [Read More]
Michael Eric Dyson’s Hour-Long Tribute to Tupac Shakur
We look back at the life and legacy of rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur on the 15th anniversary of his tragic death. We start by speaking with entertainment journalist P. Frank Williams the media coverage of Tupac’s life and death. For a more personal take on Tupac the young [Read More]
