Black Panther Party

Celebrate Tupac's 40th Birthday in ATL With Afeni Shakur, Erykah Badu, and Mike Epps

​On June 16, 1971, a little thug by the name of Tupac Amaru Shakur came screaming into this world. He was the son of Black Panther Party members, a scrawny kid with a big mouth, who grew up in the streets during the crack epidemic, studied ballet and jazz at a fancy Baltimore arts school, and b ... More >>

The Tea Party Is A Poison Pickle to Republican Pastrami

Lee KleinOy, stop with the pickle nonsense already!​Let's say the Democratic Party is a corned beef sandwich, and the Republican Party is a pastrami sandwich (if you're a Democrat who prefers pastrami, or a Republican who prefers corned beef, feel free to switch around the meat metaphor). And let' ... More >>

Peace, Love, and Terror

The investigation into a cop killing in the '70s leads to a law professor who helped launch Barack Obama's political career.

First Edition

The National Hip-Hop Political Convention sets an agenda for a new generation

Letters from the Issue of July 01, 2004

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

Back in Black

Words to the wise from Last Poet Umar Bin Hassan

Altamont Revisited

Even the Love Generation had its festival of hate

He Got Lame

The Look of a Warrior

Tony Bryant is a black militant, a hijacker, a survivor of Cuban prisons, and a Castro-hating commando. And don't you forget it.

Michael Finney's Last Flight