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Roundtable: After 1 Year, OWS Gives Voice to Resistance of Mass Debt and Widening Inequality

Democracy Now 
The Occupy Wall Street movement is largely credited for reframing the national dialogue on economic inequality and popularizing the phrase: "We are the 99 percent." We host a roundtable with Frances Fox Piven, an author and professor at City University of New York who has studied social movements for decades; Nathan Schneider, editor of the blog Waging Nonviolence, which has extensively covered the Occupy movement; and Suzanne Collado, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street since its inception and member of the group "Strike Debt," an effort to organize a mass upsurge of debt resistance.

:@IssaRae Presents - "Roomieloverfriends" | Episode 02

Actingrl112 
Episode 2: "The Underwear" - Tamiko and Jayson have that "talk."
"Roomieloverfriends" is a BLACK&SEXY.TV production
New episode every Saturday @http://youtube.com/issarae
http://twitter.com/roomielover
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MUSIC: Theme song "Chemistry" performed by Allegra Dolores. Produced by Henry "Lukecage" Willis
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT: http://blackandsexytv.bandcamp.com/

"Roomieloverfriends" is a BLACK&SEXY.TV production
Starring Shayla Hale (The Number) and Andra Fuller (LA Complex) @mrdrefuller
Directed by Dennis Dortch @blackandsexytv
Cinematography by Arthur Jafa
Edited by D. Dortch
Sound remixing and re-recording: Geoff Green (http://ggme.com/)
Post Picture: Brian Ali-Harding
Created and Written by Dennis Dortch and Numa Perrier @MissNuma
Executive Producers: Numa Perrier, Jeanine Daniels, Issa Rae, Jonathan Cutler, and Paula Parsons

Bling47 Breaks Dilla Edition: "Thelonious" by Common

Bling47 Breaks:
THELONIOUS. What more can I say. DJ Spinna says it all.

Rap Sessions: A Conversation About Sex, Love and Gender Politics in Today’s Pop Culture

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In an upcoming discussion forum at Dillard University (DU), men and women will share their insights into how this musical genre portrays women. <b>Dillard University</b> will host <i>“Does Hip-Hop Hate Women? A Conversation About Sex, Love and Gender Politics in Today’s Pop Culture”</i> on Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Georges Auditorium of the Professional Schools Building. Taking place in a town-hall-style meeting, the gathering will be conducted by leading hip-hop intellectuals. However, everyone is invited to attend and to participate in the free event.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Panelists will include: <b>Bakari Kitwana</b>, author of <i>The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture</i>; <b>Joan Morgan</b>, author of <i>When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: My Life as a Hip Hop Feminist</i>; <b>Mark Anthony Neal</b>, professor of African and African American studies at Duke University; <b>Treva Lindsey</b>, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri; <b>Marc Lamont Hill</b>, host of the show “Our World with Black Enterprise”; and <b>Akiba Solomon</b>, a journalist with the news website Color Lines. <b>Kevin Griffin</b> of the New Orleans collective 2-Cent Entertainment will preside.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">“It’s important that we consistently engage in dialogue about the ways women and men are portrayed in our society,” said event organizer Michael Wilson, an instructor of African world studies at Dillard University. “And by using hip-hop as the vehicle to drive this discussion, students will be able to directly and critically think about visual literacy, identity, black masculinity, homophobia, perceptions of women, and how they overlap in media and public policy debates.”</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The event is part of a series called “Rap Sessions: Community Dialogues on Hip-Hop” that has been held at Brown University, Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago and other schools. The panel aims to examine the tensions and animosities between young men and women that some hip-hop music exacerbates, and to present youth with viable strategies they can implement in their personal lives and organizations.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The Department of African World Studies and the Office of the President at Dillard University are sponsoring the event, along with Rap Sessions and 2-Cent Entertainment. A reception with refreshments will follow the discussion.</span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...' alt='' /></div>

Race & the Digital Humanities on the Season Premiere of 'Left of Black' | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 1:30pm est

Race & the Digital Humanities  Season Premiere of Left of Black  Monday September 17, 2012 @ 1:30pm est
On many college campus, professors and administrators are grappling with trying to re-brand the Humanities for a generation of undergraduate students who are plugged into the digital world in ways that are vastly different than the analog world that many of their professors were trained in.  “Digital Humanities” has become the catchphrase on many campuses as they negotiate this new pedagogical terrain, a space that Patrik Svensson describes as “a rich multi-level interaction with the ‘digital’ that is partly a result of the pervasiveness of digital technology and the sheer number of disciplines, perspectives and approaches involved.”
Scholars working on “race,” particularly within the context of Black Studies, often find themselves in a double-bind with regard to the Digital Humanities.  Institutions are often slow to recognize the ways that “race” factors in the Digital Humanities, even as research highlights the ways that Blackness, for example, is palpable within social media, particularly Twitter.   At the same time some Black Studies departments have been resistant to embrace the possibilities emerging digital platforms to do the work that has always been done is these departments.
Howard Rambsy II, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature and Director of the Black Studies Program at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, and Jessica Marie Johnson, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Richards Civil War Era Center and African Research Center at Penn State University, are two scholars who are charting new possibilities within the context of Black Studies and the Digital Humanities.
Rambsy is the author  of The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African-American Poetry (University of Michigan Press) and the curator of  SIUE Black Studies. Johnson is the curator of, Diaspora Hypertext & African Diaspora, Ph.D.
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Left of Black is hosted by Mark Anthony Neal and airs at 1:30 p.m. (EST) on Mondays on the Ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/left-of-black. Viewers are invited to participate in a Twitter conversation with Neal and featured guests while the show airs using hash tags #LeftofBlack or #dukelive.  
Left of Black is recorded and produced at the John Hope Franklin Center of International and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.
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South African Police Raid Striking Miners

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South African police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters at a platinum mine where 45 people were killed over a deadly wage dispute that erupted at the beginning of August. Saturday's show of force followed a government threat to halt illegal protests and disarm strikers who have stopped work at one gold and six platinum mines northwest of Johannesburg. The strikes have destabilised South Africa's critical mining sector. It was the first police action since 34 miners were killed on August 16 when security forces opened fire at the Marikana mine. 
About 500 officers raided hostels at Lonmin PLC platinum mine before dawn and confiscated homemade machetes, spears, knives and clubs, police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Marikana, South Africa.

Big Think: Baratunde Thurston on a Bacon-infused Internet?

Big Think 
"Technology-loving comedian from the future" Baratunde Thurston says that in an economy of information abundance, you don't have to feel obligated to pay attention to it all.

Baratunde Thurston is a politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future. He co-founded the black political blog, Jack and Jill Politics and serves as Director of Digital for The Onion. He has written for Vanity Fair and the UK Independent, hosted Popular Science's Future Of on Discovery Science and appears on cable news regularly to say smart things in funny ways. Then-candidate Barack Obama called him "someone I need to know." Baratunde travels the world speaking and advising and performs standup regularly in NYC. He resides in Brooklyn, lives on Twitter and has over 30 years experience being black. His first book, How To Be Black, was published in February 2012 by Harper Collins.