Langston Hughes x Underpaid Poets x DJ Kool Herc’s Hospital Bills. There are a few things going through my head, clearly. The first is, a couple of weeks ago, poet and professor Thomas Sayers Ellis took the cardboard cut out of Langston Hughes from Busboys arguing that it was disrespectful and that the poets are [...]
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Black Poets + Writers, Born to Stay Broke?
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011A Response to Jeff Chang and Brian Komar’s “Culture Before Politics.”
Monday, December 13th, 2010In a new article on the American Prospect site Jeff Chang and Brian Komar argue that: The Democrats are hurting in a big way after the 2010 mid term elections because they failed to grasp the importance of shaping the narratives through using artists the influence “culture.” Democrats think that they can focus on policy [...]
The Future of {Urban} Magazine’s: Thoughts on Jeff Chang’s Vibe Roundtable
Monday, July 6th, 2009Last week, Jeff Chang posted a roundtable discussion with Alan Light, former Editor in Chief at Vibe and Raymond Roker,Founder of Urb Magazine. Read the entire post here. It is fascinating because in many waysit is an organic conversation about journalism, capitalism, Vibe,and venture capital. 5 paragraphs in, Jeff gets cooking when he writes, But [...]
