Posted on May 9, 2008
Members of hip-hop group Ramallah Underground, from left: Aswatt, Boikutt, Stormtrap
By Michelle Chen
For more than a generation, hip-hop has drawn kids from neighborhoods around the world into the musical intersection of street culture and political consciousness. Now that common ground is making a mark in one of the globe’s most conflict-ridden areas: the Arab world.
Tracing the breadth of the diaspora — from French streetscapes to Gaza slums — Arab youth are seizing hip-hop culture as a platform for self-expression.Dam, a three-member crew based in… more
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Although it might be the most tedious and unnecessary thing I've ever read, this NY Times article does ably prove two things:
1) America has too... more
No no no, not that war. This one. Two new reports, issued Monday by the Sentencing Project in Washington and by Human Rights Watch in New... more
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