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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

The Five Qualities of a "Good Black Man": A Simple Survey, Sort of

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For a few days now I've been engaged in a friendly if tense debate about Black men, feminism and Black male feminists with a brother nam...
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Monday, September 18, 2006

The KKK's Last Meeting

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A friend forwarded this to me this morning, and although I disagree with the majority of its oversimplified views, I still feel compelled to...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

10 Things You May Not Know About Me

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Last night I stumbled on a senatorial debate on television. Interestingly, the debate ended in a "lightning round" in which the ca...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

Divas Contest: Are You a Jackie, Hazel, Lourdes or Irena?

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I wanted to take a break from work to launch another contest. This one is a thank you for all of you have read or are now reading Divas Don...
Friday, August 04, 2006

Much Ado About Street LIt - Part III*

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Many Black people have expressed concern over the saturation of street lit on the market (and, to a lesser extent, erotica.) One notable ra...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

The E! Hollywood Story Behind "Divas Don't Yield"

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Not! If anything, the story behind my chick lit novel Divas Don't Yield reflects the lip service that Hollywood plays to diversity. To ...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

Hindi v. Hindu: Owning Up to My Cultural Ignorance

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This morning I was searching for a particular comment on my novel Divas Don't Yield. Sometime ago I had inadvertently came across a blog...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

The Latina Interview Uncut

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On page 64 of the August issue of Latina (with Eva Mendes on the cover), there' s a brief Q&A with me about my latest novel Burn. D...
Thursday, July 27, 2006

I Want to Be Like Mike

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Michael Eric Dyson, that is. In this concise yet comprehensive conversation with Tavis Smiley on his NPR radio show , he critiques Bill Cosb...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Much Ado About Street Lit - Part II*

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True, hip hop came from the streets. Theres also no denying the overlap that exists between some aspects of hip hop subculture and the unde...

48L4F Law #37: Create Compelling Spectacles

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Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power -- everyone responds to them. Stage spectacles for those around you, t...
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Join the 48 Laws for Freedom Community Project

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Are you a socially conscious person who loves hip hop yet are concerned with its negative representation in the mainstream media? Do you kno...
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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Much Ado About Street Lit - Part I

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Just what does hip hop novelist Black Artemis think of street lit? As often as I have shared my views on the topic of street lit in online d...
Friday, July 21, 2006

The 48 Laws of Oppression

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A friend recently forwarded me an article in the Los Angeles Times about the hip hop community’s embrace of The 48 Laws of Power by Robert ...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

4 Easy Step to Defend Our Access to Affordable Internet Services and Information

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A friend at Playahata.com just sent me an open letter written by Davey D. In this critical letter to the hip hop community, he laments th...
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Forget About Snitchin'... Just Stop Sellin' Shit

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A friend just emailed an article in which the managing director of Cristal champagne took issue with the popularity the alcoholic beverage h...
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Monday, June 05, 2006

4th Annual Hip Hop Power Shop

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If like Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, you still have faith in the hip hop generation's abilty to promote social justice positive, and ...

25 Years, 40 Million Lives and Counting

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Today is a sad anniversary. On June 5, 1981, the first case of AIDS was diagnosed. In just a quarter of a century, 40 million people throu...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

California Love

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E-Fierce , PattyDukes and I arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday. We're here on our usual mission -- to bring back hip hop to its roots as...
Monday, May 29, 2006

If Freedom Isn't Free: Reflections on Memorial Day 2006

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It's a gorgeous Memorial Day in the Bronx. As I take my exercise stroll throughout my neighborhood, I walk past flag after flag either p...