Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share a complex history of slavery, displacement and state violence. Mays is author of the book, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America.Water rights and climate change are connected with larger political empowerment issues. “We need to somehow deal with the issue of returning land to native peoples,” said Mays, who is of Black and Native American ancestry.
It is imperative that the antiwar movement grows exponentially very quickly and becomes a major force in 2020.
Black adults must not allow “Hollywood to fill in the blanks” in our children’s understanding of Black history.
The question of where to search for the histories of Black people in the diaspora, is of paramount importance. “Freedom and unfreedom are not binaries.”
Even in the era of the “African-American” tag, there’s no shaking black – because James Brown made it cool to be black.
It appears that lies and/or false narratives are being used to rationalize this latest heinous act that may also result in another senseless war.
