Tag: Mass Incarceration

• Top 40 Over 40.28: Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis

  Yes, social media can be a waste of time, and a low self esteem machine. Yes, it facilitates hate and social sniping. But – with a good roster of musical friends it can also introduce you to a lot of great new music – both in the sense of just released, and new-to-you. My latest…

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  July 1, 2020

  History, Music, Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40

  AACM, Black Rock Coalition, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis, Mass Incarceration, Matana Roberts, Mike Ladd, new slavery, Record Reviews, Thirteenth Amendment, Top 40 Over 40, Vijay Iyer

• Top 40 Over 40.26: Homeboy Sandman & Edan’s “The Gut”

  My favorite track to come out over the past year or so is from the album Humble Pi, which is a collaboration between two great artists, Homeboy Sandman and Edan.   There’s a big contrast here between the discographies of these two guys:  Homeboy Sandman’s been putting out records regularly over the last dozen years,…

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  August 7, 2019

  Record Reviews, Top 40 Over 40, Uncategorized

  13th Floor Elevators, Beastie Boys, Beauty and the Beat, Beck, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, Bruce Haak, Edan, First Of A Living Breed, Gut Feminism, Hip Hop, Historia De La Musica Rock, Homeboy Sandman, Humble Pi, imixwhatilike, Jared Ball, Kindness For Weakness, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, Mass Incarceration, Music, Music Machine, Never Use The Internet Again, Odessy and Oracle, Psych Rock, Somatics, Syd Barrett, The Gut, Velvet Underground, War Pigs, Zombies

• Durham wins one vs. Mass Incarceration

  Good news is available here via our city’s City Life program about reforms that are working to remove barriers that people who have been involved with the justice system face when looking for work and getting a driver’s license. Congratulations to Outreach Coordinator Chuck Manning Sr. and Team Project Manager Ryan Smith, a former colleague…

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  August 1, 2018

  Current Events, Politics

  Anti-Racism, Chuck Manning Sr., Durham, Durham People’s Alliance, Expungement, Mass Incarceration, Ryan Smith

• R.I.P., MCA.1

  I’d like to express my respect for the late MCA’s work by sharing some thoughts his passing brought to mind about an aspect of his life that many of referred to but few focus on at length, which is his interest in and practice of Buddhist teachings.  I didn’t learn about Buddhism from MCA, and…

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  August 11, 2012

  History, Music, Politics, Record Reviews, Series of posts

  Adam Yauch, Beastie Boys, Buddhism, Eric Lott, Feminism, Folk Implosion, Food Justice, Mass Incarceration, MCA, Race, The Dharma