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Common Speaks Wright

The current atmosphere of today’s political amalgamation stretches the ybp in directions we’ve felt before. Our conscience and soul draws us to the transparent honesty from a candidate like Barack Obama, but our desire to blend in and ‘not make waves’ lends our ear to the often backwards rationalization offered by others regarding Rev. Wright [...]

28Mar2008 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Banned BET Boondocks Full Episode (Video)

Shouts to Intelligent Ignorance.
Interestingly enough, the question of ‘artistic merit’ is stretched pretty far by McGruder in this episode. While Brandon over at Intelligent Ignorance posed the question of ‘is this more hurtful, than helpful’, I’m reminded of the lessons in history class about the merits of artists that challenged their time, ultimately inventing their [...]

24Mar2008 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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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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Are you happy now?! … probably not

Barack Obama once again disassociated himself with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrkhan at the final presidential debate Tuesday.
“I obviously can’t censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan,” he said.
Read more about it here.

27Feb2008 | Eugene | 4 comments | 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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School Daze II?

In the February issue of Vibe Magazine, Spike Lee said he wrote a script called School Daze II, but studio execs weren’t interested.
Lee said,
“It’s the same school, Mission College, but 20 years later. I was going to have Alicia Keys in it, Kanye West, and it was gong to deal with a lot of the [...]

15Jan2008 | Eugene | 11 comments | 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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