Category: Music
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For Da Blerds
Black Nerds Unite My journey into Nerdom began with Saturday morning cartoons and pro-wrestling as a child. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were among my favorites. He-Man, Transformers, Widget the World Watcher, Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, Tales Spin, and Captain Planet also gave me my entertainment fix. As a child, it was all about The…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
What will Cuba’s new single currency mean for the island? That means the tourists who typically flock to the island nation’s beaches and city streets to hear Cuban music, enjoy a meal and experience its unique culture likely won’t return until widespread vaccination makes international travel more feasible. Until then, Cubans are left to do…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The rap stars breaking out of South East Asia Yo! MTV Raps, a cult television show which aired in the US and Europe in the 1990s, also launched an Asian version last year, with its first season focusing on stars from Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and beyond. #EastAsia #HipHop #ZAMAERA China turns on nuclear-powered ‘artificial sun’ “The…
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Final Reflection: Racial Experience and Political Practice
Guest article by Professor Michael Thomas. In my previous article for this blog, I argue that one response to our ongoing crises is to push back by slowing down and slowing down interrupting the ongoing process for the increasing intensity of work, widening inequality, and the gutting of our institutions through capitalist managerial strategies. The…
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The Rona Blues
2020 Thus Far… This year has been one for the history books for sure. It started off with a bang as the United States and Iran looked like they were on the brink of yet another war in the Middle East. Since then, the biggest news stories in the world in between celebrity break-ups RIP…
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Letter From A Black Republican
Dear Evolving Man Project, I want to say thank you to the hippie-commie Marxist black radical named Lornett Vestal. He’s been running this radical leftist site called the Evolving Man Project for the last four years. I don’t know what’s worse a liberal or a damn socialist ‘Bernard Brother”. But I’m thankful he let me…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
James Baldwin Was Right All Along “What one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world.” And more pointedly: “I attest to this: The world is not…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Why The Small Protests In Small Towns Across America Matter These protests cut across demographics and geographic spaces. They’re happening in places with little in the way of a protest tradition, in places with majority white population and majority black, and at an unprecedented scale. People who’ve watched and participated in the Black Lives Matter…
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Take Me Home
Shelter in Place The rise of COVID19 has changed the daily routine and livelihoods of billions across the globe. Countless people have been issued stay at home orders by local and national governments. That is unless you live in the United States, because, fuck Coronavirus and Freedom! But for those of us stuck at…
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Evolved Man of the Week: Jimi Hendrix
Welcome to the “Black History Month” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week in February, we will highlight a historical black male figure that embodies what it meant to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s…
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