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Ayotzinapa 43 and I Love Being Black

Ayotzinapa 43: It s been nine months since police attacked five busloads of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College in Iguala, Mexico. They on their way home from protesting a conference on education reforms held by the mayor s wife when police attacked and detained dozens of people. 43 students went missing after the … Continued


On today’s program we hear a discussion recorded at Stanford University featuring Greg Tate, the Godfather of Hip-Hop writing. In his three decades of writing on Black artists—musical, visual, literary and more—Greg Tate influenced a generation of arts and cultural critics. He has been called “the godfather of hip-hop journalism,” and is widely regarded as … Continued