February 2012
12 posts
Beyond Beef: Re-imagining Black Power for the 21st...
By Dax-Devlon Ross
Remarks delivered during keynote address at the Third Annual Is Hip Hop History? Conference at City College of New York on February 25, 2012
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A few months ago I was introduced to Malcolm X’s third daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. She’d just seen Jay-Z and Kanye West in concert at Madison Square Garden....
Beyond Beef: Re-imagining Black Power for the 21st...
Remarks delivered during keynote address at the Third Annual Is Hip Hop History? Conference at City College of New York on February 25, 2012
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By Dax-Devlon Ross
A few months ago I was introduced to Malcolm X’s third daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz. She’d just seen Jay-Z and Kanye West in concert at Madison Square Garden....
Dax @ CCNY's Third Annual "Is Hip Hop History?"...
Nas, Jay-Z ‘Battle’ Examined at CCNY Hip Hop Conference
Dax-Devlon Ross (top) and Pete Rock are keynote speakers for the Third Annual “Is Hip Hip History?” conference, February 24 - 25 at the Center for Worker Education.
Technology and the deejay, the battle between rappers Nas and Jay-Z, B-girls in a male dominated hip-hop world and a retrospective on graffiti are among...
Classic Material: Really Rich Russian Says He'll...
By Dax-Devlon Ross
New Jersey Nets owner, Mikhail Prokhorov, is Russia’s third- richest man and Vladamir Putin’s opponent in Russia’s increasingly rough and tumble presidential race. Prokhorov recently said that he will give $17 billion of his $18 billion fortune to charity if he wins the presidency next month. “I’ll sell everything, all my assets when I become president and...
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The Latest Casualty of the Stop and Frisk Regime
By Dax-Devlon Ross
Two days ago I was leaving an event at a Harlem youth organization when I came face to face with the tail end of an encounter between the police and a teenager. As I approached the corner one plain clothes cop appeared to be issuing a final statement/warning to the teenager in question while two others hovered outside of an unmarked car parked at a reckless angle suggesting...
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What GOP Race Baiting Really Means (and What...
By Dax-Devlon Ross
In a recent op-ed NYT columnist David Brooks argues that an increasingly divided nation needs a national service program that would “force members of the upper tribe and the lower tribe to live together, if only for a few years.” In addition to the increased accessed to wealth, Brooks hints at a civilizing effect that this interaction can have on the lower tribe. He...