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.
A big BOOM— 27,000 tons of ammonium nitrate… chemical compound for agricultural Fertilizer… ‘stored’ 6 years at the port of Beirut 220 dead 5,000 injured
The Big Business-backed Harris earned a reputation as a friend of the police and an agent of racially disparate mass incarceration.
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
This week protests in Portland and Racial Capitalism were on your minds.
Our theorizing must take on the dynamic, fugitive, and excessive aesthetics of black practice and performance.
