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.
“More censure of Israel is no doubt in the works, given Israel’s latest massacres in Gaza.”
“If the federal government ‘caging children’ and ‘separating families’ doesn’t put you in the streets, what will?”
“The bipartisan war making consensus is in full effect.”
“This is a storied victory for Debbie and her family, and the Move organization.”
“The leader of every state that has refused to submit to US political and economic domination is defamed as a monster.”
