- New issue of Shine ALOUD (@Shi… March 30, 2016
In Issue 4 of I am Hip Hop Magazine we featured a sexual health special from our youth media partners Shine ALOUD. …
Read more - A Manifesto – A Response to Ma… February 8, 2016
“…these are the words that I manifest. I Manifest.” – Gang Starr, Manifest (No More Mr. Nice Guy, 1989 – Wild Pitch …
Read more - ‘Elephant Diaries’ — Episode 2… February 2, 2016
Watch episode two of ‘Elephant Diaries’, the fortnightly webseries by writer, blogger, and poet, Siana Bangura.
In this episode Siana offers insight into …
Read more - Knowledge Session: Who Was Geo… December 14, 2015
In 1960, at the age of eighteen, George Jackson was accused of stealing $70 from a gas station in Los Angeles. Though …
Read more - Knowledge Session: Who is Mama… December 12, 2015
Yosepha Alomang (Mama Yosepha) is an indigenous woman from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (West Papua), one of the most biologically diverse …
Read more - Knowledge Session: Who Was Com… November 28, 2015
Comandanta Ramona was an influential member of the Zapatista Army or Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico. Dubbed “The …
Read more - Ain’t No Hip Hop In The Mainst… October 8, 2015
The biggest movement in popular music in the past few decades has undoubtedly been the rise of hip hop. From its early …
Read more - Documentary: Hip-Hop: Beyond B… September 7, 2015
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes is a 2015 documentary film written, produced, and directed by Byron Hurt. The documentary explores the issues …
Read more - Knowledge Session : Who Was To… August 24, 2015
Known to his contemporaries as “The Black Napoleon,” Toussaint L’Ouverture was a former slave who rose to become the leader of the …
Read more - Black Bodies: White Faces | Th… July 28, 2015
Nothing has changed. The slave-master paradigm has simply shifted to the creative sphere of rap music. The master being the white record …
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