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Kenyan Hip Hop in Oakland By Kwan Booth For the last three years, Emerge Media Group has produced events promoting positive interactions between African and American Cultures. In 2005 the company produced the film “Hip Hop Colony”, documenting...
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Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip Hop Explosion By Kwan Booth (October 06, 2005-Whatchusay.com) Hip Hop Colony, the new film by Director Michael Wanguhu and Russell Kenya, explores the emergence of Kenyan Hip Hop culture and it’s struggles to gain legitimacy. The...
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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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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...
