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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 in hotels, donated houses,...
