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My Righteous Mind [VIDEO]…

by Jessica Lynne December 6, 2010
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I am not a movie person. I mean, I am not that person that needs to see every new major film, indie flic or Sundance documentary the exact day it comes to the theater, debate the camera framing for two hours with my fellow film junkies and then proceed to post a 1,000 word article [...]

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Can Blacks Bum Rush The Show?: Bringing Diversity to TV

by Patrice Peck November 16, 2010
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How can you notice that something is missing if you never even acknowledged that thing to begin with? The lack of racial diversity on the major television networks—ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, and The CW—clearly illustrates how an omission can actually be rather glaring. Yet, whenever critics draw attention to the lopsided numbers of lead minorities [...]

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Black Dating in a Hip Hop Society [VIDEO]

Thumbnail image for Black Dating in a Hip Hop Society [VIDEO] by Jessica Lynne November 15, 2010

Okay. So don’t hate me.  I am not trying to drag us all back through the single-black-educated-woman-woes. I promise. BUT I do find this video to be a hilarious take on the conversations that have saturated the market for the past six months. Like I said, I’m really not trying to take us back but [...]

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Their Mic Sounds Nice [VIDEO]

by Jessica Lynne November 8, 2010
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In August of this year, filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s documentary My Mic Sounds Nice aired on BET. The documentary was widely praised, many grateful for a project that dared to tackle the complex history of women in hip-hop. With insight from a host of artists including Missy Elliot, Eve, MC Lyte as well as Salt-N-Pepa, DuVernay’s [...]

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No Help for Obama from Hip-Hop This Time

by Zora&Alice November 5, 2010
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* With the recent shake up in U.S. Congress, President Obama has been receiving harsh criticism on all sides. One topic of discussion has centered on the virtual absence of the hip-hop community from this year’s midterm elections. The Root’s Jennifer Ogunsola addresses the issue directly in her article “No Help for Obama from Hip-Hop [...]

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Double Consciousness: I Want Nicki Minaj AND Jasmine Mans

by November 4, 2010

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s likely that you’ve seen Jasmine Mans’ “Mis-education of Barbie” performance running rampant across the internet. As the spoken word poet critiques Nicki Minaj and the lack of “real” women in the hip hop industry, it has reignited an ongoing conversation about women, sexuality, and hip hop. As [...]

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