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Longtime rap fans are doing the math and coming to the same conclusions as the music's voluminous critics. In February, the filmmaker Byron Hurt released Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a documentary notable not just for its hard critique but for the fact that most of the people doing the criticizing were not dowdy church ladies but members of the hip-hop generation who deplore rap's recent fixation on the sensational...
...poetry is dead, who killed it? In the 19th century it was a vital part of Western culture. Writers like Byron and Tennyson were practically rock stars. "Every newspaper in the U.S. printed poems," says Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. "At the end of Longfellow's life, his birthday was like a national holiday...
...deepened, deconstructed, and enriched through the work of the Women’s Center, whether it be in a dinner discussion of 20 students at the center presided over by an illustrious Harvard alumna or in a crowd of 400 wordlessly absorbing the visionary truths of filmmaker Byron Hurt. These events, and many others made our first year exciting, interesting, sometimes controversial, and never dull. The HCWC will continue to be responsive to the issues that matter to students, and it will continue to keep its ear to the ground for the sound of future progress...
...Three of these students worked closely with attorneys on a case involving Byron Halsey, a man from Plainfield, N.J., who was exonerated on May 15. He served more than two decades in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting, mutilating and murdering two of his girlfriend's children, ages 7 and 8. DNA testing was not available during Halsey's trial, but after obtaining all the necessary evidence - a process that took the Innocence Project three years - a DNA profile from the crime scene showed a direct link to the children's next-door neighbor, who is currently in prison...
...dozens of other demeaning names many rappers call women in their songs. Why didn’t Simmons request the removal of those words, too? And what about anti-gay epithets? Does Simmons think they are less hurtful than anti-woman epithets? (If you’ve seen Byron Hurt’s excellent documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” you’d wonder the same thing...