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Today those of us online who care about net neutrality and how corporate greed will crush the last bastions of free speech and the free exchange of ideas/information in the world have band together to voice our dissent to their actions and demonstrate what a slowed down Internet may look like…

An old sketch of Black Rage, done in my living room. Strange, the course of things. Peace for MO.

- MLH

Writer Hilton Als describes the finger printed visuals of director Joseph Khalil. [The New Yorker] Courtroom Sketch Artist, “the rise and fall” In a commencement speech, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder goes in about race. Systematic and economic racism cuts deeper than…

The music video for TOKiMONSTA’s “Soul to Seoul” (off her 2013 sophomore album Half Shadows) has been released. For those that are unfamiliar with TOKiMONSTA (Jennifer Lee), she’s a Korean American electronic music producer-DJ who is associated with the Brainfeeder c…

Roxiny “HERO” - Roxiny (pronounced Rox-E-n-E) is a Dominican born singer/songwriter/producer based out of NYC. Her style of music can be described as experimental pop, dream pop, electro, on the wavelength of the current future pop movement (combining the singer/songwriter…

Asian Americans in Hip-Hop, the overlooked story. Bad Rap is a documentary that follows four seasoned and up’n’coming Asian American rappers: Dumbfounded (aka DFD, PARKER), Awkwafina, Rekstizzy, and Lyricks. Guest cameos interviews include other Asian American rappers such as Jin, F…

Left to right: Icon, Rocket, Static, & Hardware. Milestone Media and comics began in 1993 by four successful black comic writers, illustrators, editors, and publishers: Dwayne McDuffie (RIP), Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle. In the beginning they created black characters for…

Photo by Bartek Senkowki Recently artist Nawer invited Augustine Kofie to Poland to collaborate on this massive wall. Their process is captured below.   [Graffuturism]

Producers Arthur Baker and John Robie break down how they made Afrika Bambaata and the Soulsonic Force’s “Looking for the Perfect Beat (1983).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlyDSx8gpZ0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RJlYzBhLg4 [Red Bull Music]

Andy Samberg guest hosted SNL this past Saturday, and the SNL Digital Short made a reappearance with Andy Samberg and Lil Jon poking fun at EDM DJs in a short titled When Will The Bass Drop? Andy Samberg plays the character of fictional EDM DJ name Davincii (a play on actually EDM DJ …

This past Mother’s Day Sunday May 11, 2014 RBMA hosted a street party in honor of legendary NYC Garage/House DJ Larry Levan. The event featured DJs David Depino, Francois K, Joey Llanos and other special guest performances like R&B Soul singer and House vocalist Jocelyn Brown. The…

Left to Right: Rob The Viking, Prevail, & Madchild. When you speak of Canadian Hip-Hop, people will mention the common names such as the more recent Drake to the older Main Source, but you gotta mention Swollen Members in the mix. Founding member Madchild, in the early parts of his music…

Another interesting midseason sitcom picked up by ABC is Black-Ish. It’s about a suburban upper middle class black family living in a mostly white community. The Johnson family deals with issues of identity, culture, and class. The father character Andre wonders if his family is …

Completing the trifecta of POC sitcoms coming soon to ABC, we have Cristela staring comedian Cristela Alonzo. This show is about a young Mexican American woman, a 6th year law student who’s stuck living with her family while she’s figuring out her future goals, and dealing with her i…