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Personal brand maven – Erica Nicole of Young, Fabulous, and Self Employed

by Ope Bukola November 17, 2010
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Erica Nicole is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of YFS Magazine. Young, Fabulous and Self Employed is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and would be innovators achieve their dreams. Nicole, an advertising and marketing guru, is the Managing Principal and CEO of Dallas-based Socialista Media + Marketing Group. She spoke to Z&A about how she built her [...]

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Interview with filmmakers of Zemira, a South Bronx coming-of-age story

by Ope Bukola November 1, 2010
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“Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.” – Nikki Giovani The above quote greets visitors to the site of the film Zemira.  The film is the coming-of-age story of Zemira, a young black girl living in South Bronx. It is loosely based on the experiences of its co-writer and Producer Mecca [...]

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Beyond The Mic: Alicia Bell reminds that it’s Bigger Than Hip-Hop

by Jessica Lynne October 29, 2010
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Over the course of the past decade more and more people have used hip-hop culture as a tool of empowerment, education, and healing. Social activism requires a relentless dedication to the pursuit of justice through programs that speak to the various realities of life. But while hip-hop is a method by which we can engage [...]

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Beyond the Mic: Dr. Imani Johnson Rethinks the Cypher

by Jessica Lynne October 15, 2010
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Let’s talk about circles, shall we? They are round. They are important shapes in the geometric lexicon. They are powerful. Yes, circles are powerful. Stay with me on this. The circle is a shape that is central to life within the African Diaspora. On the first day of my dance class in Ghana, my professor [...]

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Beyond The Mic: Marcella Runell Hall and Hip Hop Pedagogy

by Jessica Lynne October 8, 2010
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It has been said that education is the civil right’s issue of the 21st century. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that while 41% of all children in grades K-12 identify as black or latino the achievement gap remains wide between there white classmates. Moreover, 80% of the teachers in the United States identify [...]

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Beyond The Mic:The Hip-Hop Theater Festival’s Kamilah Forbes

by Jessica Lynne October 1, 2010
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As a young woman coming of age in a post civil rights, post modernist, post racial (the jury is still out on that one but that’s what they say) society, it would be easy for me to become overwhelmed by all the “post-ness” because such an ideology implies, to me at least, and ending: a [...]

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