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...address a topic close to both their hearts. "Man!" says Bell. "Can I hear it? Can I hear the demo?" The congregant, an affable young part-time musician named Joel, who dresses like a long-lost Ramone, mumbles bashfully, "I can burn you one." "Great!" exclaims Bell, whose geeky-hip glasses, black pants, black shirt and polyester white belt make their own statement. "Hey, man," he adds, "I saw the Arctic Monkeys." This is cool, Joel agrees. That itch scratched, Bell, whom the Chicago Sun-Times has called an heir to Billy Graham, heads off to give a sermon...
...That is, unless you exploit it like Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who used Taylor’s murder as an opportunity to bash his favorite piñata: hip-hop. Whitlock has a long history of railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well...
...having an effect. "Artists make political statements subtly and not so subtly and those statements have an impact on the audience," said Bakari Kitwana, who serves as Artist in Residence at the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago. "This is what hip-hop does at its best, so we we see young people gravitating toward hip hop, seeing their own conditions and have hip-hop giving them a voice...
...Hip-hop is seen as one of the gifts of African-American culture to the world's creative landscape. Rhyme artists like DAM and others spent years listening to their favorite rappers, dressing like them and emulating their beats. Now they want to have the same kind of global impact. "We know about Afro Americans through hip hop," Suheil Nafar said. "So all the world will know about Palestine through hip...
...home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after the Red Line was extended through Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator to boot—these factors aren’t what compel me to make the 21-hour train ride back to Illinois.I’ll play...