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#Repost @urbancusp with @repostapp ・・・ An #UrbanCusp Exclusive Video (watch in full on Facebook.com/urbancusp) Wondaland artists, including @JanelleMonae and @Jidenna, start their Eephus tour in #Philly by joining a #BlackLivesMatter rally and release new song - "hell you talmbout." #MichaelBrown #MikeBrown #Ferguson #UnitedWeFight

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just started tackling this subject with my media classes at the boys club. i was worried at first and it's a hard subject to be talking about so young, but its so important, because little boys are little boys.

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[krileytips]

Forging community is arguably our greatest challenge and perhaps an existing medium for collective understanding is film. Yes film. Film, by nature, is a passive experience. However, ironically, as watching video becomes more and more personalized via laptops, cell phones and tablets; the notion of seeing a film and sharing it is increasingly subversive. The emotional experience of watching a person die on your Facebook feed by police violence can literally and figuratively be shared. Furthermore, perhaps the film you are viewing can provide historical insight into modern tensions. Consider the undeniable popularity of documentary film. In the past ten to fifteen years, documentary film has exploded. How many of us have made sense of the Iraq War, the fast food industry, class disparities, Katrina, or the financial crisis by watching a great documentary?

By Agunda Okeyo on January 2, 2015 @AgundaOkeyo (Twitter Handle) From Selma to Ferguson: A 21st Century Movement is Here - Urban Cusp

I have stated before that the revolution will be a creative one. Writing, social media campaigns, shareable graphic design images, journalism, tweets, constructive memes, hashtags, documentaries, poetry… these are our tools. I’m ready.

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On Realness: Said the Griot to the Gangsta

By Urban Cusp on July 25, 2014

Dear young man mean mugging me as protective gesture of your turf. As I passed you talked about being a real n*gg* and keeping it real.

1. There is no real. Just approximations of it. Good luck with that.

2. This turf you fight over, that produces this defensive glare I thought twice to challenge with an abrupt “boo” or sly smile, isn’t yours. You may fight or kill another brother over it, but neither of you own it. This will hit you crudely should your blood or one of your N*gg*s color the walk inside a chalk outline. The city will clean it: police, detectives. It’ll disappear with the every-other trash lined adjacent to memorial flowers, should anyone care enough to buy them.

3. Tough is not being afraid. You are not tough. Tough is taking the road less traveled and not cowering to demands to be “real” when you have no idea of its destination. Real has become journey to uncertain oblivion: a day to day litany of moments sandwiched between chasing next blunts or tail. Escapisms never fill you, just make you feel felt.

Dear young man. I somehow see the corny, square work I do each day as preventing fewer of you. You should smile. You probably have a nice one.

Tim’m T. West is an educator, author, poet, and Hip-Hop artist who works nationally to address the social justice intersections of educational equity and LGBTQ advocacy.

UrbanCusp.com is a cutting-edge online life.style magazine highlighting progressive urban culture, faith, social change and global awareness. The site offers a platform for young adult perspectives, profiles inspirational visionaries and artists, and serves as an online community for change agents who are like-minded. Founded in 2011 by Rahiel Tesfamariam, Urban Cusp highlights voices, ideas and images not commonly found within mainstream media.

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