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Is There Freedom After Hip-Hop?

April 25, 2007
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Is There Freedom After Hip-Hop?

Idris Hassan wants to know what happened to the love in hip-hop. When she says “love,” she’s talking about family. She’s talking about relationships, meaningful relationships that hip-hop seems to have forgotten. Read about how Idris and other artists, musicians and intellectuals define the future of hip-hop HERE.

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Frank Portman: King of the Dorks

October 19, 2006
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It’s been more than twenty years since Frank Portman went to high school. As he walks into the Capuchino High School cafeteria in San Bruno, Calif, guitar case in hand, he has a flashback. “I was a weirdo, an outcast, a misfit, an army jacket-wearin’-walkin’-around-doin’-nothin’-kind-of-a-guy. We went around with magic markers, tagging up the...

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Podcast: Why Wal-Mart Matters

April 5, 2005
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Why we love to hate Wal-Mart, and hate to love it. A podcast for Pop and Politics:

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Podcast: The Hyphy Movement

March 13, 2005
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Why the Bay Area is going dumb with their thizz face on. A podcast for Pop and Politics:

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Podcast: Frogs

February 24, 2005
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Climate change, and the frogs who are living with it. A podcast for Pop and Politics:

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