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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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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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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
