#RealityCheck
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'...Contrast that to the media and cultural response to the current famine in Somalia and surrounding countries, which has affected around ten million people, caused the deaths of at least 29,000 children and placed half a million more at risk, led to a refugee crisis in East Africa, and which was set off by the region’s worst drought in sixty years. “In July and August the food crisis has accounted for just 0.7 percent of the newshole,” notes a report from the Pew Research Center released this month. “Year-to-date the crisis registers at just 0.2 percent.” This time, instead of pop singers crooning about Africa, we have Lady Gaga parading...in a meat dress.'
(Source: thesmithian)
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Christopher George Latore Wallace
May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997
14 years have passed without you here although you will continue to live through your everlasting music.
May you rest in Paradise Biggie.
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Redd Foxx was born on this day in 1925. Hie died October 1991 (and it’s always been said that Eddie Murphy paid for his funeral).
(Source: thesmithian)
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Nairobi Heat:
Can’t wait to get my hands on this book…
“Mukoma Wa Ngugi is obviously following in his father’s (Ngugi wa Thiong’o) footsteps as he conjures up scenes so vivid that one can almost smell the meat markets and taste the Tusker beer.” Notes Jeffery Kimathi a renown clothing designer and a Nairobi native.
Synopsis
A young and beautiful white woman is murdered in the US, and the prime suspect is former Rwandan school headmaster Joshua—a hero who had risked his life to save the innocent during Rwanda’s genocide. In order to investigate this case Ishmael, an African American detective, travels to Kenya (where Joshua once lived as a refugee) and finds himself unearthing his own African identity as he uncovers this violent crime.
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Biggie
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iyadede is on the streets
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Picture aside… this is a great fucking point. One which I have yet to hear ANYONE who is in...
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“When you see the hope for the middle class just dropping, squeezing and pushing people into...”
