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100 Favorite Albums of 2022

Ok! Hello and happy Making It To The End Of The Year. The first thing you might notice this time around is that I have, for the first time, hit 100. After dropping down to 83 last year, and after hitting a high of 93 in 2020. The reason for…

Albums Of The Year

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Albums Of The Year

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83 Favorite Albums Of 2021

The first thing you might notice this time around is that the arbitrary number of albums in this years-old tradition has dropped just a tad bit when compared to 2020 and is closer to 2019, with next year maybe trending back down but still above my 2018 and 2017 numbers…

Music

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Music

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93 Favorite Albums Of 2020

Well, it seems this number keeps jumping higher and higher. There was a clearer method of listening this year, with more time at home to set a practice around all things, listening was no different. On Friday mornings, I would set aside a couple of hours for discovery — something…

Music

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Music

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Jan 28, 2021

On Loren Reed’s “Emo Prison Bars”

If you are a person who has ever been incarcerated, or if you are a person who communicates with incarcerated folks by phone with any kind of regularity, you are likely familiar with the voice that hovers over the start of these interactions, reminding you that the call is being…

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Published in GEN

·Nov 27, 2020

When Network TV Censored ‘Do the Right Thing’

As a child, I knew Radio Raheem died but not how. Only later did I realize a trash can through a window was a reasonable response. — Welcome to How I Got Radicalized, a new series at GEN that tells a story about a cultural moment that made you drastically rethink how society works. I was 10 or 11 when I first watched Do the Right Thing, decidedly too young to sit through Spike Lee’s 1989 film…

Broadcast

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When Network TV Censored ‘Do the Right Thing’
When Network TV Censored ‘Do the Right Thing’
Broadcast

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Published in GEN

·Oct 29, 2020

Death Has Become a Political Prop

After so many months of casualties, the only deaths we talk about are the ones that carry a message — In the early months of the pandemic, in an effort to pace myself when consuming the torrent of news, I allowed myself to read the charts only once a day. Every night before bed, I would dive in, studying the latest case counts and death tolls. I would spend nearly…

Society

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Death Has Become a Political Prop
Death Has Become a Political Prop
Society

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Published in GEN

·Oct 19, 2020

As Always, Hip-Hop Will Get Us Through This Political Chaos

From Lil Baby to Megan Thee Stallion, rap has defined the activism — and uncertainty — of the Trump era — It is 2020, and the patience of the people has worn thin. This is true on many fronts, including in our growing ambivalence toward the idea of celebrity. Popular culture will never be entirely free of its obsession with fame, but particularly during the pandemic, there has been a frustration…

Music

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As Always, Hip-Hop Will Get Us Through This Political Chaos
As Always, Hip-Hop Will Get Us Through This Political Chaos
Music

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Published in Momentum

·Sep 8, 2020

There Is No ‘After’ the Protests

A new series from GEN looks at how we can reconcile our organizing lives with our working lives — As I have been putting together “The Uprising Marches On,” GEN’s package on what’s next for the movement for Black lives, I have been finding myself explaining to people more and more how I distinguish between my work as a writer and my work as an organizer. For the latter…

Social Justice

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There Is No ‘After’ the Protests
There Is No ‘After’ the Protests
Social Justice

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Published in GEN

·Jun 10, 2020

The Galvanizing Musicality of the Protest Chant

As people march against police brutality, music makes the movement more accessible — It’s hard to explain the extent to which humidity can wear on a body. In Columbus, where I live, spring doesn’t turn gently into summer. The season ends abruptly, with the heat of summer overwhelming the calm air of spring. With so many new people taking to the streets, embarking…

Music

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The Galvanizing Musicality of the Protest Chant
The Galvanizing Musicality of the Protest Chant
Music

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Published in GEN

·May 29, 2020

America Returns to Its Violent Normal

Violence is only permissible here when it’s state-sanctioned — I find myself once again struggling with the American definition of violence. With who gets to define what violence is, and what it looks like. Some of this is because violence is so often discussed only as action, and not inaction: Protesters in the streets, but not institutional neglect. Violence…

Police

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America Returns to Its Violent Normal
America Returns to Its Violent Normal
Police

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Hanif Abdurraqib

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