Educating Hip Hop: 9th Wonder on PBS
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DJ, Producer, North Carolina Central and Duke University Professor 9th Wonder talks about the preservation of a Hip Hop archive and legacy on PBS with "The Open Mind".
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#CONNECTID Intellectucool Kicks-Off New Web Series in South Africa
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Tune in as we kick off the first 4 episodes of #CONNECTID in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa with some very cool artist, creatives and "doers".
Read MoreIn Case You Were Wondering : NBA “Super-Max” contracts
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With all the controversy and craziness this summer the NBA has shifted from a basketball league to more of a reality show. However, one thing that has inspired some of us to dust off the old high-tops--the seemingly outrageous contract extensions which have been handed out to some of the league’s biggest superstars. Jon Wall resigning for $ 170 milli, Steph Curry making $ 201 milli, and James Harden coming in at $228 milli.
Read More5 Minutes w/ The Sociologist
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In the first installment of #5Minutes Austin sits down with Jovonne J. Bickerstaff, a scholar of gender, race and emotion work. She is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Mellon-funded African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities Initiative at University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation, “Together, Close, Resilient: Essays on Emotion Work Among Black Couples,” probed the emotion strategies partners co-construct to foster emotional intimacy, navigate differences and cultivate a shared identity - offering a rare window into black intimate lives.
Read MoreWhat Do You Think?: The Secret of Selling the Negro Market [1954]
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You wanna know what's more important than throwing away money at the strip club? Watching or reading valuable information about how goods and services were marketed to your community-- And in this case we're watching.
Read MoreGucci, Dapper Dan and Cultural Appropriation→
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In this scorched-earth op-ed, Faith Cummings explores cultural appropriation at the hands of the fashion industry, specifically as it relates to Gucci's Cruise 2018 look inspired by Dapper Dan.
Read MoreIn their rush to become “global”, cities risk creating spatial apartheid→
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In Maboneng, bikes and bistros abound. In adjacent inner-city Johannesburg, people struggle to survive.
Read MoreMental Health: Another Look [Opinion]
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Many of our peers are ever developing yet unbalanced young adults. We have been given the power of the internet which contains an unlimited resource of misinformation and quasi facts. For some, healthy and humanizing interactions and connections have been lost or replaced with half witted social media affirmation via our trusty iPhone or Android distractions. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely faults in the ways that our parents and big cousins learned to deal with life's happenings and mental health, but you would think the generation that came up in the "age of information" would have used the resource to actually help their peers instead of for temporary entertainment.
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