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May 24, 2012
How Many Negroes Must Support Gay Marriage Before "Black Homophobia" Stops Getting Overblown?
Here are the three biggest hand-wringing fears/misnomers people have had about gay marriage, even those who support it: 1. This unimportant issue will cost Obama re-election! 2. Marriage equality would have happened by now, if not for those on-the-down low, religious, self-hating, homophobic black ... More >>
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
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September 14, 2011
Every Day I Write: Music-Related Events At This Year's Brooklyn Book Festival
At last year's Brooklyn Book Festival, Joshua Clover and Ta-Nehisi Coates argued the relative merits of Roxette's "Listen to Your Heart" and Public Enemy's "Fight the Power." The year before, Ian MacKaye (on a panel with Thurston Moore and Lupe Fiasco) decried the overuse of the phrase "Goog ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Ice-T's Newest Role: The Voice Of Reason On Ice Loves Coco
Who knew Ice-T was a role model? Ice Loves Coco, E!'s new reality show about the rapper/actor and his model/fashion designer wife, makes them look like such a perfect couple that you almost expect them to turn into anime characters and see little cartoon hearts popping above their heads as t ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
The Atlantic's Take On "The NYPD Tapes"
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic specializing in culture, politics and social issues for the magazine, offers his take here, as both a journalist and father, about the practices exposed in the Voice's "NYPD Tapes" series. Notably, Coates points out that practices like issui ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
RAP PARTY
Celebrating the language of hip-hop
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September 10, 2010
Behold The Musical Spoils Of The Brooklyn Book Festival
Ah, the Brooklyn Book Festival, a five-year-old, free, all-day blowout of panels, readings, and extraordinary quasi-literary happenings, where you might see, say, Ian MacKaye complaining about people who say "just type it in" when they mean "Google it." (On a panel with Thurston Moore and Lup ... More >>
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June 26, 2010
Who Smeared Dave Weigel?
Yesterday afternoon, The Washington Post's conservative blogger, Dave Weigel, resigned. This was following the leak of some emails detailing his personal political views to a DC hack-gossip named Betsy Rothstein and bowtied blowhard Tucker Carlson's website, The Daily Caller. The emails were ... More >>
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May 20, 2009
The Atlantic Introduces Eminem to Obama
It's oddly timed (is this piece really pegged to Eminem's release date?), but The Atlantic is currently hosting a roundtable discussion on hip-hop in the age of Obama, a topic we once wrote a few thousand words about (more than once, actually), and remain sort of obsessed with. The panelists: Hua Hs ... More >>
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April 22, 2009
Ta-Nehisi Coates Will Not Let Frederick Seidel's Arguable Racism Keep Him From Reading "Boys"
This month marks the publication of Frederick Seidel's new Poems 1959-2009, feted variously in the Times and in this paper. Last Tuesday, in an inspired maneuver, the Russian Samovar invited Ta-Nehisi Coates and Benjamin Kunkel to read from the book. Coates, perversely, chose "Boys," a poem about ... More >>
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March 4, 2009
Ailing Michael Steele Vows to Continue Using the Phrase "Hip-Hop"
Sounds pretty great here, actually In a pretty pointed Politico piece today, Michael Steele, erstwhile slang-artist and growing scourge on his own party, receives some pretty rough treatment. Write Mike Allen and Andy Barr: A month after Michael Steele became the first African-American chairman o ... More >>
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February 27, 2009
Week in Review: You Be Da Man! You Be Da Man!
Rebecca SmeyneStill so mad I missed this... This will seem strange, but the Oscars were not even a week ago. Not that they were all that memorable--at this point, we only retain a foggy recollection, something about a Beck song and James Franco recommending a certain book on the red carpet... To b ... More >>
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February 26, 2009
Ta-Nehisi Coates To Self-Crowned Hip-Hop Republican Michael Steele: "Talk Like A Regular Human Being"
Oh, man. The newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele continues his "off the hook" offensive on the English language in the above video, responding to a question about cutting off funding for Republican party traitors by saying: "I'm always open for everything, baby." ... More >>
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September 23, 2008
IT'S EUSTACE TILLY'S PARTY
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September 3, 2008
Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Jonathan Lethem Head Up Brooklyn Book Festival
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August 31, 2005
Rap's David Banner Threatens to Kill Music Industry
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October 19, 2004
Letters
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September 7, 2004
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July 20, 2004
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June 22, 2004
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June 8, 2004
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June 1, 2004
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May 25, 2004
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May 11, 2004
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March 16, 2004
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February 24, 2004
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February 3, 2004
On Da Corner Worldwide
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
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January 13, 2004
Letters
Hip-Hop, R&B, Dancehall, Crunk, Grime, er, Music by Black People
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January 6, 2004
Letters
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January 6, 2004
Music
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December 16, 2003
Letters
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December 2, 2003
Sharpton in the Rainbow's Shadow
Reverend Al slips and slides as political landscape shifts
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October 28, 2003
Rush to Judgment
Why New York's Leading Reformers Oppose Charter Change
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October 28, 2003
Vote Yes for Nonpartisan Elections
Bloomberg's Proposal Is Better Than Our Sham System
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October 14, 2003
Music
Bloomberg's Proposal Is Better Than Our Sham System
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August 5, 2003
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June 24, 2003
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June 17, 2003
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June 3, 2003
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May 20, 2003
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May 13, 2003
El Pueblo Unido
Making the Case for a United Latino Front
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May 6, 2003
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April 15, 2003
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April 1, 2003
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March 18, 2003
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February 25, 2003
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February 4, 2003
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January 14, 2003
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December 10, 2002
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