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Documentary: African Americans going back to their roots…ISLAM (Video)

Lawrence Krisna Parker a.k.a KRS One – Hiphop Beyond Entertainment (Video)

info-pictogram1 Lawrence Krisna Parker better known by his stage names KRS-One, and Teacha, is an American rapper and producer from The Bronx, New York City, New York. KRS stands for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone. KRS talks about american history, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, government, hypocrisy, society, low self-esteem, essence and concept of hip-hop.

The Last Poets interview with Pape (Video)

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America Is Not For Black People

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By: Greg Howard

Source: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/

The United States of America is not for black people. We know this, and then we put it out of our minds, and then something happens to remind us. Saturday, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., something like that happened: An unarmed 18-year-old black man was executed by police in broad daylight.

By now, what’s happening in Ferguson is about so many second-order issues—systemic racism, the militarization of police work, and how citizens can redress grievances, among other things—that it’s worth remembering what actually happened here.

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