Mos Def Ft Talib Kweli- History
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how i got over
Posted the trailer 2 wks ago, here’s the full vid from the Roots crew.
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The State of Georgia needs to stop treating Atlanta like a wicked stepchild. She’s one of the jewels of this state and brings commerce to outlying regions within the state. The city deserves respect. FUND MARTA. Stop being dumb.
Atlanta & Transit: Once a Leader, Now Lagging
wow.
via joeventures
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This might be perfection. via AllHipHop.com
An excerpt of an editorial by someone with unimpeachable taste in Hip Hop: Hexmurda (manager for Black Milk, Elzhi & Guilty Simpson and the funniest guy on twitter)
Click the link for the entire piece written on 9/2/09
I don’t hate Drake.
There, I said it. Don’t know the dude, never met him. I think he’s a talented cat, rappin’ and actin’ and sangin’ and all that. He’s even got the only record spinnin’ on urban radio that I don’t hate more than the KKK hates Obama. But that doesn’t make him the savior of Hip-Hop. Not by a longshot. However, apparently some real CEO’s (not the n****as in your hood with business cards for their record label and their car wash, with numbers scratched out) these n****as inhabit whole floors of skyscrapers and have anointed Drake “NEXT.” I can see it now, intra-office memos written in invisible ink, phone calls where coded phrases like “bury the sun” are uttered, secret communiques transported by carrier pigeon. Clandestine meetings on park benches where identical briefcases are exchanged. Limos pulling up to a rinky dink bodega in Brooklyn, with the shrouded occupants going through a hidden door behind the counter, down a secret passageway lined with platinum plaques. The passage leading to an underground fortress, that either looks like a witches’ coven or the f***ing NORAD bunker. They’re all here. All of them. Morris. Bronfman. Cohen. Rhone. Liles. Reid. Greenwald. Iovine. All of them. Sitting in thrones at a huge table carved out of an ancient oak tree, drinking from golden goblets filled with a substance that bears an uncanny resemblance to blood. These are the people who make the decisions. They decide whose careers thrive and who ends up on a f***ing milk carton in XXL. These are the folks who operate the proverbial “MACHINE,” and they can George Bush the button whenever they feel like it. And they have convened for one reason, and one reason only. DRAKE…
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Southern Justice. This is why I always say that the history of the Confederacy is more complicated than we’d oft like to think.
Interesting. Think I might actually try and get that book. The confederacy and surrounding talk of ‘heritage’ it automatically conjures up has always intrigued me. Though ths prob has lil to do w/ the ‘heritage’ most folks I talk to are speaking of, haha
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A group that does work with school systems but is diverse and believes in diversity as well as in celebrating ethnic cultures and their history is Projectsouth. Project South is based right here in Atlanta and they work more from the scope of social awareness and as advocates for disenfranchised groups like those with disabilities, illness, victims of gender/race/sexuality based marginalization, etc:
Founded in 1986, Project South acts as a regional hub for leadership development, movement-building, and long-term strategy development within community-based organizing for racial and economic justice. By creating collective spaces for communities and organizations to develop bottom-up grassroots organizing models, Project South shifts Southern-based organizing from reactive battles to visionary and strategic movement building on local, regional, and national levels.
Project South works directly with young people, intergenerational collaborations, Southern-based organizations, communities affected by social control and violence, cross-regional alliances, and our Atlanta and Southeastmembership base. Our three primary strategies to increase the viability of community-based efforts to shift resources and power
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There are MANY of these here in Atlanta. They do a good job with teaching kids material that is waaaaaay ahead of the curriculum in the Public school system here in the city, BUT…the few I’ve been to are racially and gender/sexuality biased as hell. They might have a few whites and latinos in them, but some of what they teach goes a bit too far for ME.
I have a problem with that. I went to a Private school in Brookyln that was West-Indian centric. We learned a lot about Island and African culture and THEY were a bit out there for me, too.
A happy medium is best. There are schools here that give that like the Nsoromma school
Some of the others? I don’t know. I asked one of their administrators if there was such a thing as a good white person and he laughed at me. I walked away.
Independent African Centered Education.
Great idea, long time coming but how feasible is it?
I know of a couple of places around Atlanta that seem to have that vibe, The Shrine of the Black Madonna in the West End, a lil elementary school (@ least I think it is) off Campbelton but can this really spread on a larger scale? Maybe it’s not meant to. Maybe not yet.
Maybe we’ll just keep having these little enclaves of schools that cater specifically to our culture in tiny niches until one day people see learning our true great history as not only legitimate but as a vital pursuit.
Man I feel you on that biased tip. I’m starting to work with a few groups around the City that want me to film promo’s for their org’s and they’re pretty much on the same empowerment tip. They have a great message to share with the people but they seem to feel white people can’t be trusted and that is a big problem with me. Where is the balance? I understand many powerful white people in the past have caused a lot of horrible problems for millions of people (and many people of all races are still doing it). But singling out the whole race is just repeating the other side of the problems that got us here. Sigh. What is it about cats that preach knowledge of black history and hating white people…must these two things really go hand in hand?
Thanks for droppin some knowledge, man. Every effort is a step in the right direction in my book. Even if there are flaws.
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Naka On Wood Productions: Knock Here
Looks this good don't grow on trees
