More Bangladesh for Your Buck: Sweatshops in Hip-Hop
On April 24th a factory collapsed into rubble near Dhaka, Bangladesh killing at least 1,200 people, as they made clothes for around nine cents per garment, and brought international awareness to the horrendous working conditions in sweatshops that make a majority of the clothes Americans wear on a… Read More ›
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RHHR’s 4 Year Anniversary!
Inspired by groups such as Public Enemy, dead prez, and The Coup, artists like 2Pac, Mos-Def (now Yasiin Bey), Paris, and Immortal Technique, journalists and writers like Davey-D and Michael Eric Dyson, books like Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop,… Read More ›
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SF Panel Discussion Looks at Hip-Hop as Social Activism
Saturday, March 30th 2013 – San Francisco, CA – The Hip-Hop Proclamations Event Series presents Run It Back: Remembering and Reimagining Hip-Hop as Social Activism. This panel discussion featured artists/activists Boots Riley (The Coup), M1 (dead prez), Aisha Fukushima (Raptivism), Jasiri… Read More ›
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Political Graffiti: from Venezuela to Kenya
In the battle to replace the late Hugo Chavez as the top political leader of Venezuela, campaigns on both sides of the fight have taken to hiring graffiti artists to create murals throughout the country. Among the Chavistas, supporting Nicolas… Read More ›
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Rebel Diaz Arts Collective, a Hip-Hop Community Center, Gets Evicted by NYPD, Feds
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Interview with Stockton’s BROke the eMcee
RHHR has been taking a break the last few months to regroup and reorganize, but we had to set aside some time to chat with one of the 209′s top MCs, Stockton’s Broke. Enjoy what he had to say, check out all his videos,… Read More ›
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“Ain’t the Devil Happy” –Jeru the Damaja
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Graffiti/Hip-Hop Art »
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Political Graffiti: from Venezuela to Kenya
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Urban Illustrators and Hellafornia Cothing
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Graffiti is a Freedom Crime
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Interview with: KRAZY RACE
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Goodbye Nate Dogg
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More Bangladesh for Your Buck: Sweatshops in Hip-Hop
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