This week, we congratulate the President and the First Lady for celebrating 23 years of marriage and looking fly throughout their time together.
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PoC News in America
Tag: jay-z
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PoC News in America
This week, I had a lot of feelings about the busy week in news. Let’s get to it.
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PoC News in America
We lost the great blues legend BB King this week. Time Magazine takes a look back at his life through photos.
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PoC News in America
We’re gearing up for the Super Bowl (meaning party food), which means we’re bookending this week with some sports news.
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PoC News in America
How was your weekend? This past week was a busy one for social activism.
Seriously, how could all this shit happen in just one week? And a distressing amount hit the news between when I turned in last week’s article and when it actually ran. Can we have a break, please? (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)
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Open Thread: 9/11/13
Has it been twelve years already?
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Summer Battle: Kanye vs Jay Z
This summer had the distinct pleasure of not only a Kanye West album dropping, but a Jay Z one dropping as well. I couldn’t let this opportunity pass without pitting the two head to head into a musical thunderdome. Full disclosure, I am a bigger Kanye fan vs. a Hova fan but I am trying […]
Once again, we find ourselves with two weeks’ worth of misogyny to round up. Can’t the world ever cut us a break? (As usual, trigger warnings for pretty much everything apply.)
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Ten Songs Keeping Me Sane This Week
The last few weeks have been a crazy blur. My emotions have hit the highest highs and some really anxiety-inducing lows. I got married to my lovely wife and I came out both to my family and at work. Music really kept me going through this week.
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30 Years of Music: 2004
2004! The year of my daughter’s birth, and also the year in which I felt like the decade really started to come into its own, musically. My personal favorites from this time skew a bit indie, yet I still include some popular tunes that I really dig. Let’s wander back, shall we?
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30 Years of Music: 2003
My roundup of personal favorites from 2003 errs a bit on the interconnected nature of music. One artist knows another who worked with another who was inspired by another, and on and on. I enjoy seeing and hearing my favorites overlap, as it’s just one more way to show that art is not created in […]
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30 Years of Music: 2001
2001 is a hard one for me – not for lack of great music, but more because I was a depressed human making bad decisions during most of that year, and come that September, the national climate took its own downturn. The feels, man. Let’s have them.
I don’t even think this really needs an introduction, but I’m just going to say that this is some serious pants-dropping music. CJ bless you, Justin Timberlake.
A mashup album combining David Bowie’s great glam manifesto with incredible hip-hop? Now this one caught me TOTALLY off guard.