NetRadio: The Day the Music Died, Maybe

The Day the Music Died, Maybe
By Kwan Booth
July 15 could mark the end of the web as we hear it. That is the day new royalty rates take effect for Internet radio stations based in the United States. Opponents say the new fees, which will increase the yearly amount paid by Internet broadcasters [...]

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Turn Off Channel Zero

Turn Off Channel Zero
By Kwan Booth ( April 12, 2007-Whatchusay.com)
It’s no secret that mainstream media’s coverage of African Americans is severely one- sided. From the nightly news to “reality shows” like “Cops” and “Flavor of Love” to almost every music video on BET, MTV and [...]

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WOME: The New Writing on the Walls

The New Writing on the Walls
Kwan Booth (March 14, 2007-Novometro.com)

The bay’s graffiti scene has long been one of the hottest in the country with artists like CUBA and TDK Crew laying paint in San Francisco and Oakland for well over a decade. And thanks to heavyweight transplants like Vulcan and ORKO, the area’s [...]

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Festivals Combine Hip Hop and Education

Weekend Festivals Combine Hip Hop and Education
By Kwan Booth
All across the country, educators are seeing the benefits of using Hip Hop and youth culture as educational tools. While many older institutional figures continue to clamor about the music’s social significance and graphic sexual depictions, many young educators, many of whom have grown up in the [...]

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Hip Hop, Chess and Martial Arts

Power Moves: Combining Hip Hop Chess and Martial Arts
By Kwan Booth
Staff Writer
Ever since the 1993 album “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” brought kung fu samples and chess metaphors into hip hop’s vocabulary, the culture has harbored a deep fascination for both martial arts and The Game of Kings.
“There are so many rappers who [...]

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Katrina Survivors: “We Want our money”

Journalist Davey D interviews Talib Kweli during the Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Saturday at Moses Music.  Photo by D-Ray Archer. www.myspace.com/dray813
 
Katrina Survivors: “We Want our money”
Artists and organizers raise funds for victims
By Kwan Booth
Staff Writer
By all estimates the Bay Area houses as many as 2000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. They are living [...]

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Immigrant Rights? Si, Se Puede!

Si, Se Puede!
By Kwan Booth (May 7, 2007-Oakland Post)
On Monday, more than a million protesters across the country took to the streets chanting “Si, Se Puede!” (Yes we can!), banging on pots and waving flags from the United States, Mexico, and various South American countries, to demand reform of U.S. immigration laws.
Local demonstrations, the largest [...]

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Hip Hop and Activism at UC Berkeley

Hip Hop and Activism at Berkeley
Discussion connects 1960’s and present
By Kwan Booth
The political and social activism movements sparked by the 1960’s counterculture is still alive, but today’s activists are checking more for Chuck D than Bob Dillan. That was the general consensus at the Mario Savio Lecture and Award Presentation at UC Berkeley on [...]

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Bay Area join US Social Forum

Bay Area join US Social Forum
By Kwan Booth (June, 27, 2007-Oakland Post)
As the first ever US Social Forum (USSF) kicked off June 27, a large
contingent of Bay Area organizers and activists headed to Atlanta,
joining social justice advocates from around the world for one of the
largest progressive working meetings in US history.
Representatives from the Freedom Archives, [...]

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