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...crack, guns, AIDS and an alleged economic boom in the 1990s - "alleged" because not too many Black people I know, even the ones with college degrees, are anything more than a paycheck away from poverty. Hip-hop has documented all of this, and more. As Amiri Baraka (n? LeRoi Jones) stated in "Blues People" (perhaps the most important book on Black music ever written), you can always tell where a people are at by the music they make. That means if you listen to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" or Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" or Fela Kuti...
Stuckey declined to be interviewed by The Crimson. His lawyer, Robert K. Leroi, could not be reached for comment...
...returned at age 13, and then in 1986 finally settled here for good. One of the things he liked about the U.S. was that he could "listen to everything from Pete Seeger to the Jackson Five." In 1991 he hooked up with jazz drummer Carter Beauford, saxophonist Leroi Moore, violinist Boyd Tinsley and bassist Stefan Lessard. The new band spent two long years gigging at beer-stained frat houses, molding their sound...
...that created the feeling of living in a country within a country. Certain black intellectuals have perceived that separateness as allowing blacks to see America more clearly than the rest of America sees itself, and to grasp the cruelty and injustice that much of the country seeks to deny. LeRoi Jones compared the black person in America to someone locked in one room of a big house: "If you never go into that room, you don't know anything about [it]. If I come out of that room to clean many other things in the rest of the house, then...
...more refined. It used to be that scientists needed to test a large sample of paint to pinpoint its age. And, says anthropologist Margaret Conkey, "no one was willing to scrape a bison's rump off the wall." Now it takes only a tiny sample. French prehistory expert Arlette Leroi-Gourhan estimates dates by using pollen particles preserved on cave floors...