Russell Simmons and Scores of Celebs Say: “It’s Time to End the War on Drugs”
By Russell Simmons For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the “War on Drugs.” Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and overfilled America’s prisons while failing to reduce the availability, sale, or use [...]
G’s, Us, and Peace: Questioning the Journey of Hip Hop Culture
by Herb T. As a middle-aged emcee and proponent of Hip Hop culture, I often find myself trying to be objective as a fan, when listening to the views exhibited by the youth (and not-so- youthful) in today’s Hip Hop and R&B. Though censorship may indeed be one of the most malevolent forms of mainstream [...]
Justice Department Defends Giving Banksters Immunity From Prosecution
The Justice Department has taken strong criticism for failing to prosecute the Wall Street criminals who engineered the global economic recession. As most people know by now, Wall Street speculators helped create a housing bubble using sub-prime loans, made billions from the loans, then left a huge financial mess for average American taxpayers to clean [...]
Rant: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Dusts Off “They Hate Us For Our Freedom” Lie About Muslims [Video]
![Rant: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Dusts Off “They Hate Us For Our Freedom” Lie About Muslims [Video]](http://www.kulturekritic.com/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kulturekritic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2F17%2FThugs-dont-represent-Islam.jpeg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "Rant: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Dusts Off “They Hate Us For Our Freedom” Lie About Muslims [Video]")
You knew America was going to war with Iraq when conservatives began offering this black and white, us versus them, reasoning for why we were attacked on September 11th. Never did they offer a nuanced explanation for the attacks which included the role of American foreign policy. No, it was all about how they hated [...]
Fox News to Black Leaders: $315 Shoes Are the Least of Your Problems [Video]
![Fox News to Black Leaders: $315 Shoes Are the Least of Your Problems [Video]](http://www.kulturekritic.com/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kulturekritic.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F08%2F24%2FLebron-X.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "Fox News to Black Leaders: $315 Shoes Are the Least of Your Problems [Video]")
Fox News does the bidding of corporations, and corporations, like Nike, would love nothing more than for black Lebron James fans to shell out $315 dollars for new Lebron X shoes. Hence, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone that Fox lambasted black leaders for being critical of the shoe’s price tag. Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy [...]
Hip-Hop Artist Afrika Bambaataa Named Visiting Scholar at Cornell University
Hip hop trailblazer Afrika Bambaataa has been appointed to a three year term as visiting scholar at Cornell University. The appointment, announced Tuesday, was made by Cornell University Library’s Hip Hop Collection in conjunction with the school’s music department. From Cornell University’s website: Cornell University Library and the Hip Hop Collection are honored to announce the [...]
Romney Makes Racist Slur Against Palestinians, Calls Their Culture Inferior to Israel’s
Mitt Romney hasn’t made many friends since he left American shores, and it seems that there’s no stopping him now. The man’s on a roll. When he left London, headlines read “Mitt the Twit”, and now he’s gone on to insult the Palestinians, although this most recent insult was probably intentional. There’s really no better [...]
Oprah Defends Herself Against Critics Who Called Her “Culturally Ignorant” After India Special
by Yvette Carnell The “Queen of All Media” has walked a rocky road after leaving her daytime talk show. First came the ups and downs at her OWN network, and now comes the backlash from her special on India. Oprah’s special on India aired in the U.S. back in April, but it only aired in India [...]
“Abortion Has Made Life Better For Millions of Men”
The pro-choice fight is usually considered a woman’s fight. I mean, the rallying cry is “My Body, My Choice” right? But one writer believes that abortion has made the lives of millions of men better, and that we should hear from then in this debate: For every single woman who’s ever had an abortion, there’s [...]
The Dews and Don’ts of Advertising: Yahoo Music
Even before N.W.A famously fired their 1988 warning shot “F*** tha Police,” hardcore hip-hop was known as the rebel music of the day. Like the previous generations’ early rock ‘n’ roll that championed spending the night together, glam metal that wouldn’t take it anymore, and punk rock out for revenge, it reached out to disenfranchised youths and in [...]
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