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February 10, 2012 at 2:39pm

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Earl is Back. And how?

After two year’s hiatus, 17-year old “prodigy” of rap group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), launched his twitter account, announcing that Earl Sweatshirt is “home.” Shortly after, a youtube video with a snippet of an unheard track featured Sweatshirt demanding 50,000 followers on twitter within a day in exchange for new music. [...]

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January 27, 2012 at 1:06pm

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That’s Not the Only Inappropriate Thing I See

My high school’s administration entertained complaints from a couple of Freshman girls about the overtly sexual nature of the dancing. So grinding makes fourteen-year-old girls uncomfortable. That makes sense. However, the school has made an absurd assessment of why young people dance the way we do. Meetings with the Student Council concerning the next school-sponsored [...]

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January 3, 2012 at 1:40pm

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“J. Edgar”: How Many Chapters of History Were Cut?

From the persecution of the NAACP and Black Panthers to the brutal assassination of Fred Hampton, the FBI was very actively involved in the Civil Rights era oppression of blacks in the United States. “J. Edgar,” Clint Eastwood’s attempt at a non-controversial cinematic account of John Edgar Hoover’s 37-year reign as the first director of [...]

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December 6, 2011 at 1:40pm

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These ‘Kids These Days’ Kids

With a unique, jazzy, hip-hop meets the blues meets soul meets something brand new sounds, Kids These Days (KTD for short), is a Chicago-based group of teenage musicians, making music with the potential to appeal to most everyone’s ears. Easy rapping is laid on top of swaggering horns and sometimes mingles with a strong female [...]

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November 22, 2011 at 4:53pm

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Who Do You Serve? “Occupy Wall St.” Met with “Occupy the People’s Rights”

I’ve grown up hearing stories from my parents, many of which were about their political activism, and many of which highlighted the lack of police support the experienced. In the summer of 1975, my dad participated in a desegregation protest on a beach in Boston where blacks had been excluded. While some protesters threw rocks, [...]

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November 15, 2011 at 3:05pm

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Why is Everybody Hating on the Feminists?

At my high school, the newly formed “Young Feminists Society” has become the latest joke in the hallways. The level of social acceptance for sexism, girl hate, and anti feminism blows my mind. A freshman boy labeled it “Young Dyke’s Club.” A freshman had the nerve to cross a senior girl with a self-declared superiority [...]

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November 8, 2011 at 2:59pm

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MJ’s Doctor Found Guilty of Ending a Troubled Life

Six nights a week at the secluded Neverland Ranch, $150,000 a month, and an insomniac pop legend pleading “just make me sleep” were enough to cloud the ethics of Dr. Conrad Murray. A combination of isolation in a strange environment, inadequate qualifications, monetary incentive, and the borderline insanity of one of this country’s most famous, [...]

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November 1, 2011 at 1:52pm

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What “Do” do We do?

Standing in line at Potbelly’s deli, I hear “Excuse me, but.. I was just wondering what you do to your hair?” About sixteen inches of curly, usually frizzy, untamed, natural madness and somehow women ask me this a few times every week. Sometimes her hair looks just like mine, sometimes it’s heavily processed and looks [...]

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October 25, 2011 at 1:44pm

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Topics: Joshua Bennett, Music, Poetry, Poetry slam, Rugby Ralph Lauren, Slam Poetry, spoken word

Spoken Word Poetry: Hold Onto that History.

Visceral, in your face, in your ears, in your snapping fingers, and tapping feet, spoken word poetry sprang loosely from the expressive energies of the blues, the Harlem Renaissance, and hip-hop music which had each permeated black communities throughout America over the course of the century. Mimicking the 1960s beat poets of coffee houses and [...]

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October 18, 2011 at 12:46pm

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Connections and Disconnects to a Generation of Communication

Living in America, and especially being a young person in America, means that I am arguably at the very center of the growing culture of excessive communication and interconnectedness that has permeated all aspects of the coming generation. I barely know a anyone who doesn’t have a cell phone and email and facebook and at [...]

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