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Friday Videos: Mos Def is THAT dude

TGIF

21Mar2008 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Consciousness Today: the Illegal Download Question

One of the primary markers of consciousness is the awareness that no man is an island; we are not alone, such that most things we do will have an effect on someone else.
I vividly remember sitting in my apartment in college, high-speed internet included in the rent I shared with three other people. Napster blew [...]

12Mar2008 | Garry Bevel | 5 comments | Continued
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Friday Video: Mariah + 802.11n = Not a bad song

Don’t forget the YBP Giveaway!

7Mar2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Hollywood Writers Might Write NAACP Awards Show

Looks like the NAACP Image Awards might be the only awards show the Hollywood writers write for.
Reps for the Writers Guild of America told the Associated Press that the organization will not likely stop striking to write for next month’s Grammy’s or the Oscar’s, but might for the NAACP event.
The AP reported:
The Guild said [...]

20Jan2008 | Eugene | 1 comment | Continued
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pandora: better internet radio

i’ve always been a fan of listening to streaming radio over the internet. sometimes when you’re at work, you just don’t want to listen to the same mp3’s you’ve loaded on your corporate laptop over and over again. the daytime stations on the old radio are ‘o.k.’, but smooth jazz doesn’t exactly keep you awake. [...]

8Jan2008 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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jay-z on pbs

hat tip to intelligent ignorance.
i’ve never been one to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to people claiming anyone as ‘the greatest ever’. i try my best to take the time and find out more about the situation and make my own judgements. while i’ve always regarded young hov as a top m.c., other [...]

16Nov2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Hip Hop Trends Bleed into the Book Market

This past summer I visited the Borders on Michigan Avenue to buy Edward P. Jones’s latest short story collection. While I quickly scanned the J’s I found myself hoping that the people walking by paid close attention to the sign hanging over the shelves so they’d know I was in the African-American Literature section and [...]

24Oct2007 | Andrea | 4 comments | Continued
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I’m just saying …

Vanity Fair (which I believe I only read when Obama, Oprah and the rest of the Save Africa folks were on the cover) is releasing a list of best movie soundtracks next month. Purple Rain was #1.
Read about it here.
I know I’m about to lose some dude points for this, but I think ‘Waiting to [...]

24Oct2007 | Eugene | 13 comments | Continued
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Take ‘Plus One’ Up a notch

Why don’t you take Minus One, Plus One to another level and consider supporting black artists who perform music not specifically marketed to urban audiences.
Diversify your concept of blackness, folks.
In the meantime, check out Rissi Palmer. A black woman born in Pittsburgh and raised in St. Louis.
A recent MSNBC article said,
Rissi Palmer still laughs about [...]

18Oct2007 | Eugene | 2 comments | Continued
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