“Our future is our confidence and self-esteem.” ~Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971-September 13, 1996)
“Picture My Prophecy”: The Best 48 Tupac Songs of All Time
My Story: The Other Side of Abortion
“Ain’t no love in the hood only hearts torn/Love letters to the innocent and unborn/All the babies that died up on the table/Wasn’t able to breathe, cause the family wasn’t able/Can’t, blame her I would do the same/All I could give it was my debt and my last name” ~2Pac Words 2 My First Born
And Still We Rise: Overstanding the Hiphop Declaration of Peace
“We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” ~Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech
Focus: Hip Hop Appreciation Week 2019
“Hip Hop is the name of our collective consciousness. We’re not just doing our collective consciousness; we ARE our collective consciousness.” ~KRS-One (Hip Hop Appreciation Week 1998)
Out of Sight, Out of Mind No Longer an Option
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering. -Hebrews 13:3 (NIV)
Nipsey Hussle, Spirituality, and The Temple of Hip Hop
“The best thing you can do for a person is to inspire them. That’s the best currency you can offer: inspiration.” ~Nipsey Hussle
Red Rose in the Gray Pavement
“Ten years from now, I would just like to have laid the blueprint down that other people can follow, that came from similar situations.” ~Nipsey Hussle in a 2018 Black Enterprise interview with Mia Hall
21 Savage: Hip Hop’s Face of Immigration
“Been through some thangs but I couldn’t imagine my kids being stuck at the border/Flint still need water/People was innocent couldn’t get lawyers.” ~21 Savage “a lot” verse performed on The Tonight Show 1/28/2019
#Kaeperbowl: The Silencing Continues
“I got to sacrifice a lot of money to perform. But there’s a man who sacrificed his job for us, so we got to stand behind him.” ~Cardi B on refusing to perform during the Super Bowl to support Kaepernick
And Still We Rise: The Legacy of Black History Month
“If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.” ~Dr. Carter G. Woodson (The Father of Black History)
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 13
- Next Page»