Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be editor in chief of the online magazine, called The Root.
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Saul Williams talks about his new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust
In an interview on Wednesday with News.com, Williams revealed he is grateful for the opportunity to promote his music using groundbreaking techniques and also to technology for setting him free from the “constraints of race.”
MC Hammer Launches Silicon Valley Web Video Firm
Hammer, whose real name is Stanley Burrell, is choreographing a new career as co-founder and chief strategy officer of Menlo Park-based DanceJam.com.
The Web site, scheduled to debut in mid-January, will try to upstage YouTube and become the Internet’s hub for sharing and watching dance videos. DanceJam then hopes to make money by grabbing a piece of the rapidly growing Internet advertising market, which is expected to rake in $27.5 billion in 2008, according to eMarketer.