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Eminem and David Mays have much in common. They're multimillionaires, they're white guys, and they made it all in the rap business. In addition, both have enormous persecution complexes. Eminem's paranoia is famous. "Half you people got a f______ problem with me," he raps on Till I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Source of Discomfort | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

The irony is that most of Mays' wounds have been self-inflicted during a very public confrontation with Eminem. On Jan. 12, The Source plans to ship out 800,000 copies of a CD on which a young Eminem clumsily raps, "Black girls are dumb, and white girls are good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Source of Discomfort | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

Ever since Mays, as an undergraduate at Harvard, founded the self-proclaimed "magazine of hip-hop music, culture and politics," ethics have been a sore spot. While much of the magazine's early journalism was daring, some of it was also tainted by Mays' friendships with the rappers he covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Source of Discomfort | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

At Harvard, Nkosi maintains eclectic interests such as gumboots dancing, a form of South African dancing similar to African-American step dancing. She decorates her room with colorful shoulder bags and scarves to combat what she calls the “drab and bleak” colors of Cambridge. She...

Author: By Veronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Home is Where the Art is | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

For Truszkowska, who comes from a multi-ethnic Polish-Mexican background and only began learning English when she was six, such a thesis offers ample opportunity for personal reflection. Indeed, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr. professor of Romance Languages and Literature Doris Sommer, also Truszkowska’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Globetrotter | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

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