It all started with a question about a face. It was the summer of 2001 and I was deep into the final draft of my as-told-to autobiography of rapper DMX when I read a news report about 16 year-old MALCOLM SHABAZZ. I knew how his life first became public : … Read entire story.
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Not everybody recognizes me as a Black man. They may hear me as one once we’ve had a conversation, or understand me as one once we get to know one another, but they’re just not likely to recognize me as one when they pass me on the street and that … Read entire story.
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Ain’t no way. Ain’t no way I’ve said to myself, over and over, for the past nine months, every time I’ve heard even the hint of an idea that Mr. Barack Obama will become the next President of the United States. I mean, could this be happening? A bi-racial … Read entire story.
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Sex sells. Could that be the most reliable marketing statement in history? If it isn’t, then I don’t know why I’ve been buying all the things I have for the past twenty years, ever since I stuffed a couple of crumpled dollar bills into one of those wallets with the … Read entire story.
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Ten years ago, in a college thesis essay, I analyzed the artistic rollercoaster African Americans have travelled in this country from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s to the Black Arts Movement of the ‘60s, to the hip-hop moments that dominated the ‘90s. I used a TK … Read entire story.
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