For LA Weekly I wrote an article about rapper and songwriter Gizzle. Also, I talked to rapper and producer The Koreatown Oddity. Check Gizzle’s EP 7 Days In Atlanta, shorty got bars. She’s like the Dolly Parton of rap, meaning, she pens hella songs, or in this case, raps for a lot of popular rappers. TKO was a humble cat who happens to be a multi-talented hardworking artist. Stones Throw Records just dropped his album Finna Be Past Tense. His Driving While Black flick was …
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After a year of doing the weekly posts “On The Scope” and “Around The Way” I noticed how the music, art, culture, film, politics and news in our TMG posts was starting to overlap each other, 2014 was a wacky year. I had a talk with editor Tracy Jones and we decided to revamp our weekly post to reflect the intersections of seemingly different worlds we’ve been observing, to juxtapose and highlight overlaps in music, art, culture, film, politics and …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-19-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Obama and the Beginning of the End of the Cuban Embargo [Amy Goodman] Democracy Now! – Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey? Petition to Pardon Assata Shakur [change.org] These American Fugitives May Be Hiding Out in Cuba – Other Political Exiles in Cuba [Meghan Keneally] 9 things the Sony hack has taught us about Hollywood [Tim Walker] Crimethinc Podcast #32: White …
Democracy Now! Headlines 12-12-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] READ: Senate Committee’s Report on the CIA’s Use of Torture [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Senate torture report confirms CIA had ‘black site’ at Guantánamo, lied to Congress. Are they still operating it? [Xeni Jardin] America Is Built on Torture, Remember? [Noah Berlatsky] Fighting for the Climate in the Heart of the World [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] Democracy Now! – Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More …
Democracy Now! “It was Criminal”: Retired NYPD Detective Slams Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision Democracy Now! – Vince Warren on How Police Officers Get Away with Killing from Ferguson to NYC Democracy Now! – “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” Democracy Now! headlines 12-5-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] In the Philippines, hundreds of thousands flee approaching typhoon [Sunshine Lichauco De Leon, Alexandra Zavis] A Jailhouse Interview With Tiny Doo, The Rapper Facing A Life Sentence For …
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