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...have an album coming out soon that mentions the beef you have with Oprah. I wouldn't call it a beef. I would call it a disagreement. I went to talk about Crash and racial discrimination, and I had my own Crash moment because Oprah was prejudiced against me because of my lyrics. She mentioned that I donated over $100,000 to Katrina victims, but that got edited out. But it was O.K. for everything that bashed me to stay in there...
...contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American history...
...While he says that Murphy and Sullivan have no obligation to send their kids to the public schools, he takes care to mention their race because he believes that school choices are contributing to racial division. De facto segregation between public and private education, he fears, will result in a system like Boston’s, where the majority of students who attend the public schools are minorities and where whites opt for private education. And this fear is being borne out, he says, by falling enrollment. The Cambridge system has shrunk by more than 1,000 students over...
...have a tendency to improv in public speaking, which can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences,” says Burkle, leaning back in a chair in Quincy courtyard. “I feel like as long as I don’t make a racial slur, I’m okay.” The Winthrop House resident and French concentrator has been acting in and directing shows since his freshman spring—this year Burkle directed Eugene Ionesco’s existential face “Rhinoceros” and his own translation of French playwright Jules Romain?...
...this was also the year that I became most aware of how my different background and perspective marked me. It’s not that my fellow executives always disagreed radically with me about the need for social diversity in our selection of people to profile, the importance of racial diversity in our cover photo shoots, and the need to avoid making judgments about what lifestyles and knowledge were normative. With a few exceptions, the other execs mostly agreed. But, also with few exceptions, I was the person who pointed out these issues and passionately pushed for more accurate coverage...