This video, now 20 years old, sparked a conversation on my Facebook page recently about rap music and its ability to influence with positive messages. One person asked in essence, “Where are those messages now?”. Like Avery R. Young from the Hetertosexism and Hip-Hop panel podcast I uploaded last month (which you should definitely [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social justice’
Thinker’s Meeting–a note from Gayle Bell
This is a note from my good friend, Gayle Bell:
There is this very thoughtful book by Walter Mosley called “The Right Mistake” that was spellbinding and raised some very deep questions. I wanted to throw this out to see if anyone would be interested in a ‘Thinkers Meeting’.
The role of this group [...]
Responses of a Brown-Immigrant Queer on Gay Marriage
Blackfunk.org has a article worth reading about how Indian-American activist, Debanuj DasGupta, looks at the gay marriage fight in light of the passing of California’s Prop 8. Here’s a quote:
The emergent Gay marriage agenda is…..nothing short of a sexually and economically conservative-consumerist agenda. Thousands of loving LGBT people has been hoodwinked into believing that [...]
