Detroit native Danny Brown recently put out his latest album Old and it’s been well received. He’s obviously a writer, but his voice is a cat getting its head twisted off by a half conscious heroin addict. Not my cup of craft beer, except “Guitar Solo.” In this Frames episode, Brown tells a story about getting ripped off by a crack head. …
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The spark that let the Civil Rights Movement rolls around San Francisco followed by a film crew in 1963. The documentary Take This Hammer first broadcasted in 1964. Writer James Baldwin’s freestyle rhetoric lights firestorms. Check it here. The American Dream and the American Negro By JAMES BALDWIN I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to …
You seen this Chipotle ad right? The Scarecrow roams the city becoming increasingly uneasy, exposed to chickens getting stabbed by needles and eye popping cows trapped in cages sulking as they get milked to death. A mechanical red-eyed crow follows The Scarecrow for surveillance and irony. On Chipotle’s website they described the ad: In a dystopian fantasy world, all food production is controlled by fictional industrial giant Crow Foods. Scarecrows have been displaced from their traditional role of protecting food, …
This mini documentary is about this kid Alvin in Harlem, NYC getting harassed by New York City’s finest. It also gets into the stop-n-frisk law that gives police officers in New York the authority to illegally stop and frisk (pat down) or arrest any body that looks suspicious. Do you remember hearing the stereotype that cops write tickets to meet quotas? Record your own racial profile incident. Get the stop and frisk app here. via Upworthy …
This is a youth organization that gives young bloods a creative outlet. They started in Oakland, California in 2005 and spread from there; finally getting traction. Facebook …
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