Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They've only come to divide us in our community," she said. "We know that they want to weaken us and weaken our institutions. We have to stay strong...
...Rawkus records, the independent label that could, talked about starting a record company during his turn at the conference's power sessions. The theme I see here is agency. That's what I want to talk about, instead of rehashing what they said, because if you'd wanted to know you'd have joined the 300 people at the conference. Your loss, but anyway, allow me a minute to speak on agency in hip hop, as it relates to women...
...Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who've considered suicide when the rainbow is enough, Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Michelle Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, there's been an explosion of literature telling the world about black women's problems. I know about it. I'll assume that you know about it. But who's going to bring it to the world's walkmans...
...should and will (I have thousands of things to say on that subject). We have to keep the problems straight in our mind and not attack sexism like it's a new thing, created by hip hop. True, women are most likely to be killed by someone they know, but why? Femme-hop has an even bigger fight than the fight against what black men think of us, and how they treat us, because someone else is writing the pedagogy that informs this frame of mind. Intellectual rap-diva Tricia Rose has this to say: "The second example I want...
...know more specifically what I'm afraid of," said Rabia S. Belt...