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...avenue for gangsters to obtain wealth and status, Marcus Reeves provides the necessary reminder in “Somebody Scream!” that hip-hop is much more: a potent political force that releases the latent energies of black poverty, violence, and frustration. Reeves, a film and music critic who has worked for The Source magazine, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times, sees hip-hop as filling the void left by the collapse of the 1960s Black Power movement in defining black identity. The book makes the case, through biographical examination of certain representative artists, that Black Power...
THEATER IN LONDON Was William Shakespeare a shameless propagandist? Or a shrewd critic of the monarchy? One way to decide is to watch the Royal Shakespeare Company perform his full set of history plays - Richard II, both parts of Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI's three parts and Richard III - at London's Roundhouse theater until May 25. The Histories Cycle climaxes with all eight plays in chronological order over four consecutive days - 100 years of royalty and treachery seen through Will's eyes. www.rsc.org.uk by Jumana Farouky...
...from the media. In a recent appearance on Fox News-not exactly considered friendly territory for the Democrats-he congratulated the network for having done "the fairest job [and] remained the most objective of all the cable networks." In an interview with me, the governor was again in media-critic mode. "It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election," Rendell said, referring to the show's now famous skit lampooning the media's crush on Obama. "It's stunning. Does Keith Olbermann get checks from the Obama campaign...
...Whitman and Thoreau; China has Jiang, wandering the huge grassy expanses and singing of primordial elements - blood, death, soil - to which the nation is no longer attuned. "The heat caused by Wolf Totem ... is a symptom of Chinese people's collective depletion of spiritual belief," wrote critic Zhang Hong in the highbrow Wenhui Readers' Weekly. "The book is like a stimulant injected into the decadent contemporary spirit that allows people to fantasize about becoming aggressive and successful." Fittingly, those are the very qualities demanded by the new society evolving from China's economic boom...
...real estate firm, and she chairs the board of the University of Chicago Medical Center as well. She has also served as chair of both the Chicago Transit Board and the Chicago Stock Exchange. But as Jarrett sees it, her most important position may be the role of honest critic for the man she hopes will be President. "I'm very frank, and I always tell them what I think," says Jarrett. "But that's probably easier to do when you're good friends...