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May 14, 2013 at 3:46pm

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Topics: Community, Culture, hip-hop, Media, Music, Rap

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Sage Morgan-Hubbard About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

Rhymes and Reasons interviews Sage Morgan-Hubbard about the Hip Hop songs that changed her life: Arrested Development’s “People Everyday,” Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” and Queen Latifah’s “U.N.I.T.Y.”

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May 10, 2013 at 2:31pm

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Topics: Black Youth, discipline, education, high school, Media

HS Senior Wesley Teague Suspended For Tweet Criticizing His High School’s Sports Team

A senior at Heights HS in Wichita, Kansas, Wesley Teague criticized his high school’s sports team on twitter on May 2, 2013. His tweet resulted in his suspension! This story begs the question; are our students being taught anymore or are they just going to school to be disciplined?

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May 8, 2013 at 2:53pm

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Topics: Black Men, Community, hip-hop, Music, Rap, Religion

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Julian “J. Kwest” DeShazier About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed His Life

Rhymes and Reasons interviews minster/rapper Julian “J. Kwest” DeShazier about the Hip Hop songs that changed his life: Outkast’s “13th Floor/Growing Old,” Common and Lauryn Hill’s “Retrospect for Life,” and “Triumph,” by the Wu-tang Clan

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May 3, 2013 at 9:48am

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Topics: Black girls, criminal jusitce, discipline, education, race, racism, school-to-prison pipeline

A 16 Year-old Black Girl, The Criminalization Of Students, And The Push For STEM Studies

Kim Moore on 16 year-old Kiera Wilmot’s failed science experiment, and subsequent expulsion and arrest: “What happened to Kiera calls into question a larger problem, that of the Zero Tolerance policies and school-based arrests that have been implemented in schools throughout the U.S. and have ultimately criminalized students, particularly students of color.”

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May 1, 2013 at 1:47pm

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Topics: africa, Black Men, equality, global affairs, injustice, protest, social media

Change

Nigerians Saving Nigerians founder Omololu Omotosho discusses his commitment to speaking out against “the injustice that men and women saddled with the responsibility of governing Nigeria choose to do against the people of Nigeria.”

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May 1, 2013 at 11:29am

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Topics: black leaders, black leadership, Black Youth, civil rights, Community, Media, race

Two Words

It is my earnest hope that our black leaders would pause in their pursuit of personal ambition and legacy to stop and look into the eyes of the child of potential that stands before them. A child that – regardless of circumstance and waywardness – can become an agent of change that can dramatically impact the world in which we live.

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April 30, 2013 at 3:32pm

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Topics: hip-hop, Media, Music, Women

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Shannon Matesky About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed Her Life

Rhymes and Reasons interviews poet Shannon Matesky about the Hip Hop songs that changed her life: TLC’s “What About Your Friends,” Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” and Eve’s “Love Is Blind.”

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April 24, 2013 at 12:00pm

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Topics: global affairs, hip-hop, middle, Middle East, Music, Rap

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Asad Jafri About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed His Life

Asad Jafri, the former Director of Arts & Culture at IMAN spoke w/ Rhymes and Reasons recently from Malaysia about songs by KRS-One, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, and Killah Priest. They rapped about history, religion, and growing up Pakistani-American in Kuwait.

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April 23, 2013 at 2:20pm

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Topics: Black Youth, college, diversity, race, racism, stereotypes, Universities, White Privilege

The (Un)Suprising Racism at Elite Universities

Racist incidents blight just about all of America’s elite institutions. But here’s the thing, if you speak to students of color on these campuses, they are never surprised. So what is it about the culture of these institutions that implicitly encourages this behavior?

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April 23, 2013 at 10:34am

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Topics: Black Youth, Criminal Justice, education, Latino youth, Police, police brutality, Politics, prison, school-to-prison pipeline

Word to Antoine Dodson: ‘Hide Yo Kids’ from Police in Schools!

By Maurice Green Though a trivial YouTube superstar, for the purpose of this discussion, Antoine Dodson provided some insightful advice when he said, “HIDE YO KIDS!” Why? The police have invaded our schools.

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