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.
Bernie Sanders wants to take private profit out of the energy grid as part of his comprehensive Green New Deal plan.
Harris’ candidacy has since day one operated as a protest campaign against Bernie Sanders. “Harris appears to be the elite’s most favored insurance policy.”
Rwanda is treated as a showcase of US-allied Africa, but even western capitalists don’t believe dictator Paul Kagame’s economic numbers, and his own fortune comes from looting Congo.
The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always been the race and class of users.
Humph, an’ to think dey made “Birth ob de Nation“ spreadin’ dat filth— dat rotten disinformation— I bet dis what shrinks mean wit dey word, “projekshun?”
