Ron Dellums Endorses Clinton

Clinton: Act Like Americans
 People  |   Kwan Booth  |  October 1, 2007 at 6: 53 PM
From Novometro.com
Mayor Dellums officially endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton’s bid for president Monday afternoon and she returned the favor by naming Mr. Dellums Chair of her campaign’s National Urban Policy Committee.
The announcement was made at Laney College Student Center shortly after the [...]

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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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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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Russell Simmons: “Do You!”

Happiness, Success, Hip Hop
By Kwan Booth (May 28, 2007-Oakland Post)
Last Tuesday in a scene that resembled a southern baptist revival, Russell Simmons, the hip hop entrepreneur behind Def Jam Records, Def Comedy Jam and Phat Farm Clothing, shared the secrets of his success with over 200 people as they skimmed copies of his new book [...]

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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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Nathaniel Mackey wins National Book Award

Nathaniel Mackey wins National Book Award
By Kwan Booth (November 22, 2006-Oakland Post)
Staff Writer
In a turn of poetic justice, African American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been awarded the 2006 National Book Award for his latest poetry collection, “Splay Anthem.” With the distinction, Mackey joins a short list of black writers including poets Ai and Lucille [...]

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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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